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Video Teaser for my first Flight 9/13/14

Added by Larry Whitlow on April 7, 2015 at 4:00pm — No Comments

9/13/14 It does FLY!!!!

10 hours of transition training CHECK

Pre-Flight inspection that was almost an annual CHECK

7 Gallons of 100LL per side CHECK

Taxi out, run it up, take the active, and fly.

It does! and it flies well

Added by Larry Whitlow on April 7, 2015 at 3:54pm — 1 Comment

9/12/14 It can FLY!

Friday September 12 2014  The DAR comes over to inspect N69102 for it's airworthiness certificate. 

No more then 2 minutes into the inspection he finds a castle nut that has no cotter pin.  DAMN!   I was just working on that this morning and I had the new cotter pin laying right beside the pliers i was going to use to put it in.

I quickly fix that while the DAR goes on about his inspection, spending over an hour looking in holes, going upside down in the cabin to look…

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Added by Larry Whitlow on April 7, 2015 at 3:49pm — No Comments

Looking for things to do...

Well since I'm in the same boat as every else, waiting on parts, I went back to the final touches on wiring my panel



Here's my LED Caution and Warning system





And here's a close up. The Lexan cover is just taped into place to verify alignment of the legend





You can see a 3 side by side module on the wide shot over the Dynon. I designed and made a PCB to mount the… Continue

Added by Larry Whitlow on November 29, 2009 at 6:50pm — 3 Comments

If I only had a brain.......

OK A little while since I posted some progress



I rolled it out to catch a little sun two weekends ago, and then this weekend I installed the panel

Check out the sophisticated avionics installation.



All right I really did add the brains to the old girl Here's the real pic.





No wires yet but the weather is just gettin nicer… Continue

Added by Larry Whitlow on March 29, 2009 at 5:48pm — No Comments

On the Firewall!!


And Then...


OK maybe this thing is gonna fly after all

Added by Larry Whitlow on January 17, 2009 at 2:52pm — 1 Comment

Got My Engine Out of the Crate!!!!!


Sure looks Spiffy!

Larry

Added by Larry Whitlow on January 10, 2009 at 11:04pm — 6 Comments

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