First flight of the year

Check out the tracking map, Elizabeth took the Fox out for her first flight of 2014, and circled our new house for a bit, before heading back to the airport… It was a pretty nice weekend for March in Ohio.

Spring 2014

OK, it’s not really quite spring yet, but it’s starting to feel like it. I went back out today, and instead of focusing on basic maneuvers like we did last week, we worked on towered fields. We flew direct to CVG, did a touch and go on 18L, then departed direct to LUK for 3 […]

Winter ends

It’s been a brutal winter here, with more snow than we’ve seen since I was a kid. That snow has been piling up at the airport, and lining the hangar rows. Our guys plow, but they’ve run out of places to put all of the snow, and since our doors sliding in guides, the can’t […]

Taking Andrew for a ride

One of the things you realize once your airplane is “done”, there are lots of people that you really, really want and mean to take for rides, but coordinating a time when you’re ready and able to go somewhere that they’re also available is much more complicated than it would seem. Happily we’re working our […]

Dunn/Brainard Shortwing Top Loader “original” Velocity flies again

I’m a little behind on my posts, but wanted to give our building buddies, and now “dual offenders” the Brainards props for getting their second Velocity, a shortwing RG (temporarily fixed gear for insurance reasons) flying while the finish up their XL/RG. Local builder Hugh Dunn got this one flying in about ’95 or so and flew […]

Flying Dave’s Zodiac CH601XL N554SG

I was at the airport today working on our cooling plenum (the last flight the engine wasn’t cooling quite as well as I would like), and Dave Gallagher stopped by to see how things were going. He mentioned that he was going to do a couple of patterns to warm up his oil for a […]