Month: August 2017

Training Video Clip

Some vacation has prevented anything happening towards the first flight, which it looks like I will end up doing – Roger isn’t available until October and I don’t really want to wait that long. So this long weekend I aim…

Airworthy!

My seven year project today moves from build to fly. I passed the inspection with just two safety ties missing (on both fluid drain plugs, totally missed those), a missing cotter key (doh!) and a stand off for a fuel…

Ready for Inspection

In preparation for my inspection tomorrow I returned to the hangar early this morning so that I could put the wing skin back on and any last minute finish up items. I clecoed the skin into place, fired up the…

A few more pre-inspection tasks

Friday afternoon I went to the hangar and put some gas back into the passenger wing so I could check for leaks on Saturday. I was pleased to open the hangar Saturday morning and not see any spills on the…