Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Year-end Update

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Off topic, from the '70s. Here's an old photo of me and my buddies making a practice jump at East Troy, Wisconsin. We were getting...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Composite Oil Sump is 99.4% Complete

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Don't try this at home! There were just a few things to attend to for the oil sump; like installing a filler cap and post curing the thi...
Saturday, December 13, 2008

Today's report

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Just a quick update. I'm working on the firewall forward stuff now. The bigger challenges here are to install the trigger sensor, the ...
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008

NOW we're making progress!!!

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Here's couple of photos of both behind the scenes and the new panel. I still have another day of hooking up some of the Dynon and ICOM...

The Instrument Panel is In

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It's been almost exactly one year since I pulled the instrument panel and yesterday I set the new one back in place. Still working in a...
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 ...