Flight Training Lesson 1

So spring is officially here, and I want to get started with my training in earnest. I’m planning on flying 2-3 times a week, but we’ll see how we do. Today I did my first flight with Pete, and it was really just to get me familiar with the Warrior. Basically Pete and I just […]

Gross weight testing, part 1

Now that we’re comfortable with the new prop we’d like to revisit our gross weight testing. Before we weren’t happy with the acceleration fully loaded with the Catto and decided to derate the gross weight of our plane until we upgraded to a constant speed prop. She accelerates great now, and we’d like to increase […]

Congratulations Andy

As we alluded to in our last update, John Abraham visited Andy Millin after he left us, and his beautiful N114MV has taken her first flight! Congratulations guys. We got to know the Millin’s a few years back, about half way through our builds as it turns out, and we couldn’t be happier for him […]

John Abraham visits

John Abraham paid us a visit and did some test flying for us. He was on his way to Michigan to do a first flight, so we took advantage of his travel arrangements. First we finished checking out the new MT prop, and then he spent some time flying with our builder buddy Jerry Brainard. […]

Rileys in Sport Aviation, April 2012

Congratulations to our good friends Mark and Nancy Riley on (finally) getting their new XL/RG-5 into Sport Aviation. Now let’s go fly somewhere together!

We lose a legend

The Warren County Airport and the larger flying community in South Western Ohio lost their patriarch this week with the passing of John Lane. There are a few names that everyone in the area becomes acquainted with as they immerse themselves into the aviation ecosphere in this area, Lunken, Hogan, and then there was Lane. John created […]