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The Fox regains her wings

We had a wonderful day yesterday, helped in no small part by our good friend Dave Bertram who came up from Texas to do our return-to-service flight for us. Dave has flown our airplane several times, and so when we asked we were able to convince him to come up even though he’s essentially retired […]

Signed off to fly

The condition inspection is done, the panel upgrade is done, the new glare shield is done, and the interior is done. I will sign the plane off for return to service tonight. The plane has now been down since about the first of December, a long 9 1/2 months of upgrades. And I didn’t even […]

Preparing to fly

We should be ready to fly later this week. To that end we redid the weight and balance this weekend, torqued the wing bolts, and are nearly complete with the condition inspection. Since there’s been a fair amount of mayhem (not just Jack Morrison’s crash, but also our Wright flyer) around us in the last two weeks, […]

Airventure 2011 Recap

Airventure is over for this year, which always feels like the end of summer to me even though we have several weeks left to go. I’ll post some pictures shortly, but we had a great week. We spent a lot of time hanging out with Velocity builders and fliers as well as members of our […]

Jack Morrison passes

Shortly after returning from Oshkosh we learned of the loss of Jack Morrison and his new, highly modified e-Racer near Aurora, IL. Jack was a great aviation friend. The kind of guy you’d see once or twice a year and fall right into conversation. He was a friendly and extremely helpful man, the kind of guy who […]