Rudder Cable Repair

So our house guests have headed south, without getting a ride in our plane. As you may recall the right rudder failed its continuity check prior to take-off Monday. I didn’t have time to look at it until tonight. It turns out that the swage at the wing root failed during Elizabeth’s flutter testing due […]

Rudder Cable Failure, not going to Wisconsin this weekend

So we were going to take my family on rides tonight, but the right rudder is busted. We taxied out tonight and the right rudder failed its continuity check prior to take-off. I’ll try and fix it after our folk’s leave, but the repair and check out will take at least a few days so […]

Happy Independence Day 2010!

We aren’t getting a bunch of flying done, but I did convert the accidents page to the new website, so I believe that is all of the content I needed to move over. I will be creating the “by date/chronological” view of the website soon, as well as moving over the members-only stuff.

CHT Sensor Fixed, Flutter Testing, and Bob gets a Ride

So we found that the CHT sensor connectors were touching and grounding out, so we sent Elizabeth out to redo our flutter testing. She’s a gamer, and took off without complaint. She was talking to Dayton the whole time, and after wards they thanked her for calling and letting them know what she was up […]

Beth and I Fly Together Again

I flew home from Dallas tonight to some really decent weather, and our guests hadn’t arrived in town yet, so I dropped my bags off at the house and my Sweetie and I went flying. We took off and headed for Dayton, and she flew great. We did a full power climb to 5500′ when […]

Moving to 3.0

This will be the last blog entry on the Version 2 website, so please start checking the main homepage for updates from now on. Elizabeth and her mom went on a longish flight tonight while I’m in Dallas, a little over an hour. We’ll try to get some more flying in over the next few days, but […]