Failed trip to Michigan

Well we started to fly up to Kalamazoo today to see our friends the Millins and give some much-earned rides out. It was a pretty day for flying and the plane was in good order, so we gave them a phone call and launched. The clouds were reported as scattered at 5,500′, so we planned […]

Manual Diagrams Added

I’ve updated the building section with diagrams from the builder’s manual to make the pictures make more sense. This doesn’t seem like a very great sin, as since it doesn’t really help if you don’t have a kit and the rest of the manual, but does fill in the gaps some as you’re reading about […]

Building By Chapter

For those of you that have been with us since the begining, you know that we started out trying to chronicle our build by chapter in the builder’s manual. That didn’t work out so well since the manual was continually being updated (at least while Brendan was around), but what I have done is to […]

By Date Section Finally Updated

A long time ago my website was organized by date of the work being completed, more or less. Then as it got more content I added a summary page that turned into the “Blog” to link you directly to the newer sections of work. As the site progressed the strict chronology view never really got […]

Rudder Cable Fixed

I fixed the rudder cable tonight, turns out I was able to snip the nylaflow and get it out from around the cable so that it could return full to the rudder stops. The travel also looks good, so we would have tested it last night but we had storms roll through the area. If […]

Rudder Cable Repair

So our house guests have headed south, without getting a ride in our plane. As you may recall the right rudder failed its continuity check prior to take-off Monday. I didn’t have time to look at it until tonight. It turns out that the swage at the wing root failed during Elizabeth’s flutter testing due […]