Painting the new nose pant

We had a nose pant quite awhile ago, but it met a sad end in a sub-par landing… Meet Rev 2.0… We have been flying with Andy’s nylon nut for some time, and because of it can run quite a bit of compression on our anti-shimmy Belleville washers. Hopefully that will be enough to keep us from […]

King’s Island Day 2012

Vacation is over, the annual is done, and as it happens it’s my company’s day out at the amusement park. I’ve been telling my coworkers about the airplane for years, so after checking out the airplane around the airport I thought it would be cool to give some of them a chance to see us […]

Flight Training Lesson 26, Long Cross Country (150 nm +)

My flying is going to be winding down for a little over a week as we near the long Labor Day Break (we’ll be vacationing in Myrtle Beach), so we wanted to get in our required long cross country. Flying direct from Lebanon to Muncie, Indiana, then to Butler County (where my EAA chapter resides), then back home […]

Flight Training Lesson 25, Night Flying

I’ve just about got everything I need pulled together to send back to the FAA for my medical, and I’ve got a couple of flights to get in before our Labor Day vacation, so tonight we went out and did some night flying. I’ve always enjoyed flying at night. It’s so calm, typically very few […]

SkySmith Insurance

Well, it’s time for our annual insurance renewal, which is never really fun, but has not typically been a big deal. We’ve been carrying hull insurance, which for the uninitiated is like comprehensive on a car, while we were doing our flight testing. This will likely be the last year we carry it, but surprisingly […]

Brainard’s buy N5165U

Congratulations are in order for our Velocity friends, the Brainards, as they have agreed to buy Hugh Dunn’s Danny Maher original (short wing retract) Velocity N5165U. Hugh built it in the late nineties, and flew it to Oshkosh a couple of times, but has not flown it in a few years. He’s at the point in […]