Our friends the Millins have flown to Oshkosh the very first year they had their airworthiness certificate! Congratulations Andy and Theresa! They flew in on Saturday before we arrived, but I got some pictures of her on the flightline, and some video of them departing early Monday morning. Amazing, even though we had rain off […]
Read MoreSome of you have noticed that I’ve been doing some clean-up around the website. I’ve been trying to remove any references to the old versions of the website, which were mainly links to videos or documents (which are now all under the Downloads tab on the top navigation bar for members – a good reason to join, […]
Read MoreWell, there’s still no flight school at our airport. There are some talks aimed at bringing one to us, but they are moving slowly. Meantime we’re getting ready for Oshkosh, and will be heading out tomorrow. If worst comes to worst, I can go train in our old Warrior down at Blue Ash, but I’d […]
Read MoreWell, we’ve decided to drive to Airventure again this year. I’m fairly disappointed, but we were not able to test fly the airplane this weekend – a thunderstorm kicked up just as I thought we were going to test the new MP sensor line and check the oil cooler heat blankets. While I think the […]
Read MoreI’ve just heard that Blue Ash Aviation is leaving the airport, even before they were really there. I can’t say that I’m disappointed, they really seemed to be going out of their way to antagonize the airport community. It was as if we were supposed to consider ourselves lucky to have them. I hope their […]
Read MoreWhile flying this weekend we noticed again that our manifold pressure readings are wrong, going from 16″ at full power to 8″ at idle. They ought to be several inches of mercury higher at both settings. This is problematic because this same line provides the MP sensor on our electronic ignition, which will advance the […]
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