Victor Fox is a star!

Victor Fox is a star!

One of these days our beloved airplane will be a motion picture star. We agreed to allow the folks at David Garrison Productions to use our plane in a feature film they are making to support the American Cancer Society, the Last Race, and we helped them film our scenes this evening. They shot several scenes […]

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Checking out Hugh Dunn’s Velocity

Checking out Hugh Dunn’s Velocity

Our building buddies the Brainards are considering a longtime local Velocity builder/flyer’s airplane as a way to get started flying sooner while they finish their XL/RG. They asked me to come along to check it out with one of their A&P fried of theirs. I’ll be posting pictures on the wiki page for his airplane soon, but […]

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KMGY Runway Fest 2012

KMGY Runway Fest 2012

This week featured a local fly-in at Dayton Wright Brother’s Airport (MGY). MGY is a great airport, with an excellent runway with great lighting and features – it’s routinely swept, has a localizer and ILS, for instance. It’s so nice we’re considering building a hangar their with some fellow Velocity builders. The fly-in was more […]

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Flight Training Lesson 19

Today Pete and I did pattern work. My medical is off getting processed in Oklahoma City, and probably won’t be granted for another couple of weeks, but he thinks I’m nearly ready to solo, so he wants to get me good and ready. I’m struggling a bit with the sight picture at Blue Ash. The […]

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Flight Training Lesson 18 – Starting at Blue Ash Aviation

There’s still no flight school at Warren County, so I’ve started flying (with the same airplane and instructor) and the nearly defunct Blue Ash Airport. The airport is due to close, but nobody has a firm date, and since this school bought our trainer, it’s where I’m at for now. There’s still some chance that […]

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Velocity’s at Airventure 2012/Recap/BBQ

Velocity’s at Airventure 2012/Recap/BBQ

We had a pretty good turnout this year, in addition to the new factory Twin (N91VT) demo airplane, and DeltaHawk’s (N211JP) demo in the booth’s, we had Andy (N114MV) and Mark’s (N929X) planes, as well as the Darryl and Nora Kufalk’s (N207DK), Dave Nelson’s (N22DN),  N122GP,  N292F, N404TL,  N108BG,  N244FM,  N924JH,  N94KL,  and N333RR. (Picture Album) […]

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