Flying to Columbus to Visit Elizabeth’s Sister Amy

This weekend we decided to fly to Columbus to visit Elizabeth’s sister Amy and her boyfriend, and take them for rides. The flight to Columbus’ Bolton Field was one of the “longer” cross-country flights during my flight training, but is a very easy 20-25 minute flight in the Velocity (versus nearly an hour and half […]

2013 EAA974 Summer Picnic

Wow…. Long time without updates, and I’ve probably lost 98% of my readers! Sorry about that. We’ve had a long dry spell driven by the new house, and all that that entails, and we’ve just returned from a (commercially flown) trip to California. Just before we left I’d pulled our LightSpeed ignitions out of the […]

New home

Not that most of you care particularly, but this is what has been keeping from doing much flying, or my transition training… we are now in the new house, though it’s still pretty disorganized. I hope to get back to the airplane in the next couple of weeks, but until we’re comfortably ensconced in the […]

Preparing to move

Just to keep things interesting, it looks like we’ll be moving soon… but only about a mile… We weren’t looking to sell our house, and it does make me a bit sad to leave the house that we built the plane in behind, but ever since we moved here there was one house in the […]

Flying the Fox

I won’t lie to you and pretend this was the first time I flew my airplane, our good friend Dave Bertram gave me that honor awhile back… but I wasn’t a “real” pilot back then and… ahem… the airplane didn’t have many hours on it, if you know what I mean, so I was really careful with it. […]

AOPA Magazine Features the Velocity Twin

Check out this month’s (January 2013) AOPA magazine for a cover story on the Velocity Twin by Dave Hirschman. It’s pretty positive, and is the only time that I know of the Velocity being featured in what is, essentially, a GA (read as not experimental) magazine. In fact I don’t recall any experimentals getting this treatment, though […]