2010 – N444YP – Gregory Crane – Velocity XL/RG – San Diego, CA – 2

Crashed after departure from San Diego, door departed in flight and crashed on a golf course landing upside down. 1 man and 3 children injured, 1 woman fatally injured. News account. Eyewitness accounts say that he maneuvered to the left to avoid a pole, and that is when the left wing struck the ground causing […]

Magazine: Kitplanes August 2010 – Turbo XL N74GP

Repint of the August 2010 edtion of Kitplanes on turbo XL N74GP. Download

Airventure 2010 Recap

Sorry about the lack of updates during Oshkosh. The EAA WiFi service was not very good in the campgrounds this year. I actually think that that was intentional, to be honest. They set up several small buildings as WiFi hot spots with electrical connections, but the signal didn’t propagate out like it did last year […]

Baggage Tie Downs

Here you can see a couple of shots of the finished tie-downs. As I say, it’s probably overkill, but I doubt I’ll ever need to add any. 😉 We’re installing baggage tie-downs so we can use cargo nets to restrain our cargo. These things are horribly expensive, but I think they’re necessary and I like […]

Driving is more dangerous than flying

So, when I decided not to fly to Oshkosh, I thought I was picking the more reliable method of transport. Not so fast, as we had a mechanical enroute with our brakes just outside of Chicago. Fortunately Beth had a Midas up on her Droid in seconds, and we arranged a repair. These guys really […]

Door Seals

So this clearly falls into the “not sure where to put it” category. But we’ve finally installed door seals. We flew for a year without them, and it always worried me that we’d get caught out in rain. Of course, I still have to prove that they seal, but that’s a task for another day. […]