I spent yesterday taking the wings apart and removing them from the fuselage, removing the cowl, side panels, control surfaces, and pulling the engine.
Today I removed the skin.
It was a bittersweet process. I kept thinking about all the history it has experienced since 1965. All the eyes that...
Okay, this is just too weird.
Yesterday at work somebody asked me about my airplane and blah, blah, blah I mentioned that I would like to re-cover and paint it because presently it's just kinda ugly. Let's just say I wish it looked as good as it flies.
I get home from work at 2:30am, take a show...
The radio/audio equipment in N11018 works adequately, but it's a pretty clunky setup. COMs are done with an ICOM IC-A22 which is an old (but dang good) handheld radio. This requires an ICOM PA-82 adapter to feed/receive audio to/from my headset. Added into this lash-up is an ICOM PTTSW inline push-t...
I took my biennial trip to Bandon, Oregon. I've been going there with some close friends since 1999. This was the second time I've flown in. Within minutes of shutting down after landing yesterday, a gentleman approached me at the gas pump and immediately starts in about my airplane.
"Nice Tailwin...
FINALLY! Two and a half months after Apple eft over thousands of pilots that relied on external GPS units for their aviation apps, the release of iOS 8.4 has arrived and I can say with 99% certainty that my iPad 2 with Bad Elf GPS 1000 and Air Navigation Pro are back to 100% functionality.
iOS 8...
I've got another trip planned to Bandon on the southern Oregon coast coming up, and I'm seven hours away from an oil change so I need to fly seven hours in the next six days because I don't want to be mid-trip when my oil change is due. I've never been to Stehekin or Darrington so I attempted those...
