Darwin and Steve did the first flight test on the 30th of January, just in time to miss the first snow of the year (One day's worth, mostly gone a couple of days later. After all, this is North Carolina. South enough). All was well and good data collected to tweak Steve's high tech fuel/engine setup. More on that some other time.
Leo's Corby Starlet is now the flagship of the Fairweather Flyers fleet ... Loon is proudly flying into the wind on his rudder surfaces.
Yesterday's snow that began in late morning didn't quash Leo's desire to fly -- he made it back to the airport in time to miss the real action. The weather guessers missed it across the board and it was a real surprise.
I managed to get the Glastar out for a short flight around the valley on Thursday ... Mark and Steve did some high engineering math and found a way for me to rearrange the hangar stack so I could pull it out and put it back in without a lot of trouble. (Mark is traveling for awhile so I have the run of the place.) Not trusting one good result from my ADS-B performance flight, I took advantage of Thursday's to pull up another report from FAA and it was good.
Another hour on another day in the Glastar to see what it's like to be bashed around with the winds we get here in the mountains .. a short run over to a close by airport beyond the rim of these hills and an exercise in crosswind landings. All in all, good for me and good to get the airplane outside in the elements.
Another hour on another day in the Glastar to see what it's like to be bashed around with the winds we get here in the mountains .. a short run over to a close by airport beyond the rim of these hills and an exercise in crosswind landings. All in all, good for me and good to get the airplane outside in the elements.
There are more hours of light than yesterday ... more time to go FLYING !
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