Monday, November 24, 2008

A Year Ago, Today

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A year ago today was the last time I flew the Quickie. The target date for getting back in the air was May 1, 2008. I guess I missed that ...
Thursday, November 20, 2008

More From the Dungeon

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Sometimes I feeling like I am working in a dungeon. I have two light stands, a lighted magnifier at the work bench, a portable trouble light...
Thursday, November 13, 2008

The Darkest Night is Just Before Dawn

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Now that the days are getting shorter and it's getting colder, I'm having to hunker down a little. Right now, anyway, the hangar is...
Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Yikes! The Stripes!

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Just a couple of photos to show the paint stripe, courtesy of Sandy. She gave me the stripes for my upcoming 38th birthday. Or is it my 48th...
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Saturday, October 25, 2008

All Things Electrical

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I've been trying to concentrate on all of the electrical items from the firewall aft. This is cool, since I am actually bolting parts o...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Now - Where was I?

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Time to get back to the fun stuff. While I was waiting for the paint to dry I did get some other work in on the aft side of the firewall. ...

Painted at last, Painted at last, Thank God it's painted at Last!

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I finally got all the parts back from the paint shop. How long has it been? I think Rob came down just before the Fourth of July and that w...
Saturday, October 18, 2008

Free CAD drafting program

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Not that this has much to do with anything, but I wanted to let you know that there is a nifty free Computer Aided Drafting program out ther...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Paint not yet resolved.

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I'm still waiting to get the rest of the parts back from the paint shop. I really need the elevators since I will be routing things aro...
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Now what?

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Quick update here. It's definitely a good news/bad news situation. After sanding off about $700 worth of new paint, I sent my plane to ...
Thursday, September 25, 2008

Progress is happening

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Even though I haven't posted lately, progress is in the works. I sanded a lot of the paint off and made arrangements to have a local bo...
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Thursday, September 11, 2008

A Paint Job Gone Bad - Rats!!!

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After the paint job was done, and much to my total dismay, I discovered there were significant problems with the color match on different pa...
Monday, September 01, 2008

Q-2 canopy for sale

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I have a new clear canopy for sale, on Ebay. Here is the URL http://tinyurl.com/62j6gd All proceeds will be donated to the Plastic Explosive...
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Sunday, August 24, 2008

"There is No Such Thing as a Simple and Cheap Paint Job"

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That quote was from the counter man at my local paint supply shop, as I returned to buy yet another $100 quart of paint to fix yet another o...
Thursday, August 21, 2008

Getting the Primer On It

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Moving day! I was able to get my main man, Robbie Hoskins down to direct the painting operation for this little beast. Again, I am gratefu...