One of the things you realize once your airplane is “done”, there are lots of people that you really, really want and mean to take for rides, but coordinating a time when you’re ready and able to go somewhere that they’re also available is much more complicated than it would seem. Happily we’re working our […]
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We made a run for it last night, with the possibility of weather for Sunday (low clouds at least, maybe some rain). I’ve posted more pictures though. We had a great time, staying in the big cabin again with Dave Nelson. We were sad that Ali couldn’t join us this year, but Bob Bittner stayed […]
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Apparently Fred and a passenger (Manny Lewis) were practicing touch-and-go take-off and landings, and forgot to latch the door. They executed an emergency return to the airport, but forgot to deploy the landing gear, and bellied it in when they realized the mistake. The passenger door is the one departed from the airplane, so I […]
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This was the first year that we were able to work the Mid-Eastern Regional Fly-In (MERFI) into our schedule. It’s a shame, since it’s so close to us, but that’s the deal. We took the short flight a bit after lunch time and arrived at just exactly the wrong moment – just as the Sport […]
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This weekend we decided to fly to Columbus to visit Elizabeth’s sister Amy and her boyfriend, and take them for rides. The flight to Columbus’ Bolton Field was one of the “longer” cross-country flights during my flight training, but is a very easy 20-25 minute flight in the Velocity (versus nearly an hour and half […]
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Wow…. Long time without updates, and I’ve probably lost 98% of my readers! Sorry about that. We’ve had a long dry spell driven by the new house, and all that that entails, and we’ve just returned from a (commercially flown) trip to California. Just before we left I’d pulled our LightSpeed ignitions out of the […]
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