The first year
 

Today marks the first anniversary of our first flight! In the past 365 days we've flown 239 hours, gone to 59 different airports in 14 different states and 2 other countries. :D



And... She goes to the painter after OSH!!

Brandi,
It has been a pleasure watching you two build and fly your plane. Wow, 239 hours in the first year. You are using it exactly as it should be used. I can't wait to see it after paint! Thanks for the stories.

Impressive and very cool! Continue to fly safe.

Really?
 

Has it been a year? Wow! Felt like yesterday when I read the post of your first flight. I've got to get mine finished! :o

David

Your post stimulated some thought
 

I've been flying the RV-6A the Jeanine and I built now since March of 2004 and I have flown several places. I didn't think of it as a competitive thing but a little fun memory exercise. I went into Excel and created a simple two column file and entered all the states in column A and a "X" in column B for the states I have landed out RV-6A in. It makes you think a little to remember a specific airport or city visited and not just gloss over the list thinking, "well, I must have landed there." The task can have its own memory rewards and future thoughts. Thanks for the stimulation.

Bob Axsom

State Landed RV there
Alabama X
Alaska
Arizona X
Arkansas X
California X
Colorado X
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida X
Georgia X
Hawaii
Idaho X
Illinois X
Indiana X
Iowa
Kansas X
Kentucky X
Louisiana X
Maine
Maryland X
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri X
Montana X
Nebraska
Neveda X
New Hampshire
New Jersey X
New Mexico X
New York
North Carolina X
North Dakota
Ohio X
Oklahoma X
Oregon X
Pennsylvania X
Rhode Island
South Carolina X
South Dakota X
Tennessee X
Texas X
Utah X
Vermont
Virginia
Washington X
West Virgina
Wisconsin X
Wyoming X

The down time for painting is a bummer. Congrats on the flying! WOW!

Congratulations!
 

Brandi,

I devoured every page of Brian's and your blog while trying to get the nerve up to order our tail kit. I appreciate the private emails answering my questions especially regarding tools. LOVED the pictures from your Bahamas trip--it's one of our planned destinations. But my favorite picture from your blog is the picture of you sewing the seat covers. It seemed to put an exclamation point on the fact that a couple can do EVERYTHNG to put the airplane together. I'm not saying we WILL. It's just nice to know we can. :D

Looking forward to seeing the paint job.

Congrats on the anniversary. :)

Jeff

Cool
 

Keep having a good time while we can.

I have noticed our plane is getting a lot of wear and tear.

Brandi & Brian
I still think about the weekend you picked up your Tailcone. What a fun weekend. I still remember when you came around the corner in the smaller truck. All I remember saying was oh **** it won't fit. But it did.

Congrats on 239 hrs

Geoff

Congrats!
 

Along with this milestone, shouldn't there be some obligatory retrospective about what you did just right, would do different, are going to upgrade, etc? I get the feeling that the building never quite ends...

I too should thank you for helping to motivate me to get started as I followed your progress.

==dave==
fuse kit in progress