In our continuing saga to get a constant-speed propeller, we’ve finally made our deposit on the MT, and gotten a tentative shipping date of 11/04/11. The prop is the MTV-9 (MTV-9-B/LD178-102a to be exact) with a Aero Technologies PCU5000X governor and P-622 spinner, with our custom paint. We going with American Propeller again since they […]
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We had a wonderful day yesterday, helped in no small part by our good friend Dave Bertram who came up from Texas to do our return-to-service flight for us. Dave has flown our airplane several times, and so when we asked we were able to convince him to come up even though he’s essentially retired […]
Read MoreThe condition inspection is done, the panel upgrade is done, the new glare shield is done, and the interior is done. I will sign the plane off for return to service tonight. The plane has now been down since about the first of December, a long 9 1/2 months of upgrades. And I didn’t even […]
Read MoreWe should be ready to fly later this week. To that end we redid the weight and balance this weekend, torqued the wing bolts, and are nearly complete with the condition inspection. Since there’s been a fair amount of mayhem (not just Jack Morrison’s crash, but also our Wright flyer) around us in the last two weeks, […]
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Airventure is over for this year, which always feels like the end of summer to me even though we have several weeks left to go. I’ll post some pictures shortly, but we had a great week. We spent a lot of time hanging out with Velocity builders and fliers as well as members of our […]
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