If this is the first time you’ve seen this new version of Velocityxl.com, thanks for joining the party! Here’s why you’re seeing it…. We’ve been using new software for our website (which I’m calling version 3.0 of Velocityxl.com) since July. I recently noticed that the old website is still getting thousands of hits a day, apparently because folks […]
Read MoreYou may have noticed that we now have a spiffy new logo for the website. I’m not much of an artist, so I outsourced this to someone with talent, Megan Clegg (http://megancleggdesign.com/). She was super easy to work with and gave us lots of great design options based on some pretty sketchy input we gave […]
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If you’ve followed our blog for the last few months, you already know that we had our exterior scheme designed (and vinyl graphcis produced by) Air Graphics in Middleton, WI. It’s worth mentioning (at least to us!) that they are featuring our airplane on their website currently, and we think she looks just as good over there […]
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In our last update we’d just flown back from the Rough River fly-in. We’d been flying a ton in the run-up to that event, which left us with a handful of things that needed attention once we were home. One of those things was our right brake. It had been dragging, just a bit, for […]
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Wow. Rough River 2010 is now in the books. We had a great time, as usual, and made a bunch of new friends, as well as stress a bit about the weather and things, so let’s jump right into it. Elizabeth and I took Friday off and rented a cabin at the park for both […]
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Elizabeth was out last night preparing for the “short field” she’ll be encountering tomorrow at Rough River. I put it in quotes since it’s still 3,200′, which most would not consider short, but when you’re used to over 4,500’…. Anyway, to do so she and Pete flew to Phillipsburg, a local Dayton airstrip notorious for being short, rough, narrow, […]
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