Went flying
Last night was the 4th grade competition for the math team. They did great. My duties as Math Team coach are almost done.
I didn’t get too much done on the plane today. Instead I took my first RV ride with John Adams. His plane looks great. I especially like the simple but noticeable paint scheme.
We flew up to Arlington and grabbed a bite at the Taildragger. Jim Piavis met us up there in his Boredom Fighter.
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The Black Jack Squandron was practicing, and I got to see them land in formation. Pictures cannot capture how cool it is to see 9 planes break from the overhead one after another. And yet I keep trying to photograph it.
After lunch, we hung around Jim for a little bit. It was challenging for John to slow down to Jim’s speed. It’s tough taking shots in the tight confines of an RV, especially when the plane is bouncing all over the place. I have a new appreciation of Ed Hicks pictures. Here’s a couple that turned out pretty good.
The RV is a great flying machine. It’s fast and incredibly responsive like a sports car. I definitely made the right choice of plane to build. Thanks John for the ride!!
After I got home, I decided to pull the plane out into the driveway and do a thorough sweeping of the garage. Plenty of neighbors slowed down and gawked at the odd sight.
Jeff Harrang and his wife Carol, potential RV builders, emailed me earlier in the week and dropped by to check out the project.
After all of that, I spent a little bit of time verifying the lengths of the throttle, mixture, and prop cables. I have the regular venier controls that came with the firewall forward kit. I’m going to return them to Vans and order throttle quadrant-compatible cables, but I wanted to double check the lengths first. They all look good.