Elizabeth was out last night preparing for the “short field” she’ll be encountering tomorrow at Rough River. I put it in quotes since it’s still 3,200′, which most would not consider short, but when you’re used to over 4,500’…. Anyway, to do so she and Pete flew to Phillipsburg, a local Dayton airstrip notorious for being short, rough, narrow, […]
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We’re planning on bringing the Fox to the Central States Association‘s Rough River Canard Fly-in this weekend. I say planning because this isn’t our first attempt, yet we’ve not gotten the airplane to the airport. Followers of the blog recall that in 2008 we departed Cincinnati only to land on Indiana Highway 3 in the town of Otisco. We […]
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Here are some better pictures of our decal work in the light of day. I really, really like the change. We can’t wait to see everyone at Rough River! For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad […]
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Our Air Graphics vinyl arrived late yesterday, and we talked Bob Palo of BP Customs (937) 216-0068 into coming up early this morning to help us apply it (ok, just actually do it). And it’s a good thing we got an early start, as it turned out to be an all day affair. Bob is a real […]
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Big news from the north, Air Graphics has completed our vinyl graphics and will be shipping them this afternoon, which we have plans to have installed locally by Robert Palo (who came recommended by our Velocity friend Bill Stockman) this weekend. If it all comes off as planned, we’ll be looking sharp for next weekend’s canard fly in at […]
Read MoreElizabeth flew with her instructor Pete again last night. We were trying to do two things really, one was to get Elizabeth more comfortable with the airplane and the other was to get Pete familiar with the flying characteristics of canard aircraft generally, and the Velocity in particular. I think we made good progress on […]
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