Many years ago, when I started this website, I’d intended to add a section detailing and documenting my flight training (the time and costs as well as my reflections). Years went by with me building the airplane and Elizabeth preparing to eventually fly her, and there was just nothing to report on. That is beginning […]
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We’re still getting ready for Rough River, with today’s update being getting a “brag board” ready for the fly-in. This is the board that folks setup in front of their airplanes to tell folks all about them. We went back to Zazzle to get ours printed up (in our signature font), and I’m really pleased […]
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Elizabeth’s been out of town quite a bit since we got back into the air, so she went out to get comfortable in the plane this weekend and get a few more of our “5 hours” of flight testing that’s probably required for our probably major changes over the winter. It happens that my company […]
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A few weeks back we got some bids for a mahogany model of our airplane. These are available pretty afford-ably with a generic white paint scheme (via eBay), but we wanted our paint on it. There are a couple of places that do this, I think all in the Phillipines, and it takes awhile, but we’re pretty […]
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We just returned from a week at Myrtle Beach, and we didn’t fly. I wasn’t going to post about it at first, but this is exactly the kind of vacation the plane would be perfect for. Yes, we should get an instrument rating, and yes, we didn’t have the 5 hours of “major change” test […]
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In our continuing saga to get a constant-speed propeller, we’ve finally made our deposit on the MT, and gotten a tentative shipping date of 11/04/11. The prop is the MTV-9 (MTV-9-B/LD178-102a to be exact) with a Aero Technologies PCU5000X governor and P-622 spinner, with our custom paint. We going with American Propeller again since they […]
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