Weekend flying cut short

Well, I posted a little video this evening, but there’s not much to see, sadly. I’d planned to do a bit of flying on Sunday, but even though they were reporting 12,000′ ceilings but when I launched there was a building layer at 3,000′, and as I got close to my first touch-and-go airport I […]

2015 MERFI – Mid East Regional Fly-In

We’re lucky enough to have one of the larger regional flyin’s pretty close to us. I hadn’t thought much about how close until one of my EAA chapter friends mentioned that from the chapter’s airport (KHAO) it took him about 40 minutes to get to MERFI (at Urbana Grimes Field). KHAO is about 7 minutes by […]

Disabling the Reflector Mirror

I will be disabling my Reflector Mirror later today. I’m sorry to do it, but it’s time. First, the VOBA forum has become quite active, and is used by more builders than the email Reflector anyway. Secondly, the software I’m running has moved on… and by quite a bit. It’s not the hugely popular system […]

We lose Marlene Finkelstein

We learned this evening that we have lost a dear friend. Joel and Marlene Finkelstein pretty much adopted us, on one of the worst days I expect to ever have, and showed a grace and kindness that is hard to describe. Our hearts break for Joel and his family, with this sudden and unexpected loss […]

2015 KMGY Runway Fest Recap

We had another great visit at RunwayFest, with great support from the City of Dayton Aviation Department, and at the invitation of fellow Velocitites the Lorenz’s. I didn’t think to take any pictures, but luckily Elizabeth thought it would be nice to grab some of the fireworks. This year I decided to drop the airplane […]

Prop Fix

When you last left your hero, he was driving to Airventure. Quite glumly, I might add. The first bit of good news came on the trip up. Scott Swing from the factory and told me that, had it happened to him, he’d have flown it home (assuming it was a short-ish flight), and that he’d […]