Rough River 2018 was a pretty strange edition. The weather over the park was lovely pretty much all weekend, though there was some low fog some mornings that delayed arrivals, but everywhere else there were issues. Mark and Nancy could not get in from Philly. Dave, Bob, and the Kufalk’s had to leave midday on […]
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Update 1: Congratulations to Tom and Loretta Irion for winning the Gold Lindy. Warning: This page is picture-heavy and will take quite awhile to load…. Oshkosh Airventure 2015 started off with a bang for us, literally. I hit something with the prop the day before we planned to pack for the show, and took a nasty nick in […]
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Well, another Cincinnati Canard/Velocity fly-in is in the books, and again the weather has damped the turnout. We had an awful lot of folks that had planned to fly get stormed out, but it was not a wash out like last year, with the morning weather OK and intermittent showers throughout the early afternoon. Ray […]
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We had a great Funday Sunday this year, with wonderful weather, and a simply huge turnout. In fact, it was so busy it was a bit stressful getting in. So much so, you’ll notice in the video I took I was so busy trying to listen to traffic and build a picture in my mind […]
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Randy is a recent addition to the Velocity community, and he lives fairly close, at least by airplane. We’d bumped into him recently, and he was complaining of a fuel smell in the airplane and some evidence of a leak. So, Jerry and I grabbed my borescope and a few odds and ends and flew […]
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Based on a study that David Ullman did on VGs for the top of the Velocity, specifically to generate better airflow into the cooling NACA ducts, I’ve decided to replicate his experiences. He determined that larger vortex generators that are typically used on airfoils would be required to get into the high energy air at the edge […]
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