This weekend was kind of a washout, literally and figuratively. It poured in town all weekend, and Sunday was consumed with EAA48’s Funday Sunday and a Chapter 974 meeting. I have gotten most everything on the GRT up and running properly, calibrated the fuel level probes and the like. I’m still having a small issue getting the Trio Pro […]
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Big day today, not only did we talk to Dave Bertram about taking my baby flying again soon, but we ran the engine for the first time sine our incident. That’s a really big deal, but we could have had a catastrophe too. We weren’t planning on running the engine *quite* yet, but due to […]
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So, I’m running behind on updates, but I want to recap the work completed on my “Spring Break”. We mounted the wings and torque them to flight standards, mounted and connected the radios and instruments and ran through the initial EIS and GRT EFIS calibrations, sewed up our winglet weather ‘socks‘, reinstalled all of the hardware on […]
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Well we’re closing down a very busy week of vacation working on the airplane. I didn’t get as much done as i would’ve liked, but we did enough to get pictures for our little fly-in. I will do a full update on what we got done soon, but in the meantime here’s a recap of […]
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So I’ve been slow with the updates lately. Sorry about that, but I’ve been focusing on getting things done and letting the updates slide a bit. I got my sunbrella fabric in, so Elizabeth’s mom Carolyn will be working on sewing up our winglet sun covers this week. We’re also going to be hosting Terry Miles, […]
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Happy Easter! Just a quick update. We finished up our hoses today and put the fuel system back together. Also I got a new air filter in that I think we can make work. Finally Linda made a pattern for out winglet covers, so when our fabric comes in this week we can start on those.
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