Phase I

Here's my second flight. After the first flight, I removed the cowl and spent a full day checking everything over closely. No problems found so it's on to my solo flight test schedule of 40 total hours for Phase I.

First Flight!

Success! First flight with no problems. A 40 minute flight and as promised, it was on a Thursday. I had my friend, Ron VanBeek and my brother-in-law, Stephen there to help. I didn't tell Paula until I returned. She was surprised but happy I didn't tell her before the flight. Thirty nine hours left to complete Phase I.

Ready To Fly

All ready to fly, just waiting and waiting and waiting for good weather.

After The Inspection

Austin came down Sunday and spent the day helping me put the airplane back together after the inspection. There are a whole bunch of panels on every airplane that get removed for regular inspections. We almost finished but got tired about 5:30 and went to have dip cones. I'll finish up early this week and hopefully have the first flight very soon. Maybe Thursday, Shelby :).

It's An Airplane!

It's officially an airplane! I got my airworthiness inspection done on Saturday morning. The inspector was DAR Tim Martinez of San Antonio. There were no problems and he said it was the best homebuild he had inspected and that the quality of riveting was better than the factory airplanes he had inspected. I showed Paula the pink slip (airworthiness inspection) and she said it's peach, not pink.