The Fuselage Comes Home

We brought the fuselage back today and started working on installing the door receiver covers. Also, we started working on the window beauty covers so we’ll be able to install our interior.

New Year, New Job, Repairs Continue

Ah, our first update of the new year. Well, we’re still making steady progress, but I was really lazy over the holidays (we got a Wii, and I really took a stress relief break). See, I’m taking a new role at work, returning to engineering from my 9 year IT hiatus, and the decision to […]

Repairs, Visit to French Lick

OK, so we’re not making progress as fast as I would’ve guessed, mainly because of parts. Just before Thanksgiving we got the last bits in, two leading edge wing cores and the strobe bump-out molded replacement piece. We spent the holiday with friends and family, and took a couple days at French Lick, Indiana. There’s an […]

Incident Repairs Begin

The road to recovery has begun in earnest. I’m still splitting time between Victor Fox and the basement, but I have decided to go with the GRT EIS engine pod. That will keep me from having to run all of the engine instrument wires back up the electrical conduit after pulling the oil lines outs. To […]

APRS Web Tracking Enabled

One thing I think I’m going to get to before I repair Victor Fox, since winter is closing in on us is our basement drywall. I’d planned to do it now before the incident, anyway, as I’ve been putting it off all summer trying to keep the plane flying. I’m a little concerned that the […]

The Millins Check up on Us

Some folks will tell you that Andy Millin is a good guy. Not me. Andy is the best. Andy, his lovely bride Theresa, and “the girls” stopped by on they’re way to Tennessee for a weekend get away to check up on us and share well-wishes up close and personal. And he brought some foam […]