NetHeads, It rained off and on today, with a few real frog stranglers thrown in to keep things interesting. That was great, because we've been in a drought all year, but even on a day like this there are opportunities to fly. I've had my plane "topless" since I got back from OSH to install a new intercom and to improve a few other things, including finishing off the front bulkhead for the fiberglass spinner. One of the locals wandered by and asked what I was up to, and after I told him "installing a new intercom", he remarked "and you have to take your prop off for that??".
I needed to test all of this because I'm planning to fly to my father's grass strip tomorrow to say "hi". So I finished at 7:00PM, and it's not too dark to land until about 8:00, so off I went. That flight was such a blast. Super calm air, absolutely nobody else flying or on the radio (am I the only guy with a firepole leading into my cockpit?), and I never backed off on the throttle after takeoff or got over 2000l. 50 minutes of shear bliss. I couldn't resist a flyby of M38 at 210 mph, because they always say it sounds so sweet on takeoff. What about at 210 mph? My guess is just short of a sonic boom, at least for what passes for a sonic boom in Hazel Green, Alabama! Did a few laps of the local drag strip, racing the cars and giving the spectators something to think about, then buzzed Jim Hill's new house construction to see if the electrician had installed electrical boxes yet. I had to climb just to get to pattern altitude! That flight had me hollering all the way down, and I'm still stoked to the max. You guys that are building....you have no idea what awaits you... Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net --------------------------------------------------------------
