2015 Airventure Recap

I’ve posted our annual Oshkosh recap, but warn the bandwidth impaired, it’s a picture hog. Thanks again to the many folks that work so hard to run our Velocity owner’s and builder’s BBQ, and to all of the Velocity and other airplane enthusiasts that make this week so special to us. There’s never enough time to […]

Prop damage

UPDATE 1: So, the consensus was that it’s probably best not to fly right now. Scott at the factory gave us some advice on how to repair it, but I didn’t have time to do that before we wanted to leave, and since we’ll see MT (and all of the other prop dealers/shops)… we’ll probably […]

Getting ready for Airventure 2015

Just a quick update to say that we’re T-minus 5 days to Oshkosh 2015. We’re planning on flying in with, and rooming near, the Rileys again this year, with a planned arrival midday Saturday. Look for us in Homebuilt parking…

2015 Dayton Airshow (not!)

Well, we’d planned to fly to the Vectron Dayton International Airshow today, but we got a hurricane… or rather the remnants of a tropical depression, and it’s raining, and raining, and raining. Sometimes you just can’t get a break. For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt […]

Trio AutoPilot Repair

A funny thing happened on the way to flying with my autopilot… a LED burnt out. Not a big deal, and they said they’d never seen one ‘just fail’ like mine did – they’d seem them blow up from over voltage, but those always show signs of abuse, and mine didn’t. Lucky me. No worries, […]

Site upgraded to HTTPS/SSL

Most folks won’t care, but as the Let’s Encrypt and Google movements start to turn “HTTPS everywhere” into reality, I’ve finally enabled SSL here. It seems to be working fine, but please report any issues to me so I can clear them up. THanks.