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05-04-2017, 09:26 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Landing field "12VA"
Posts: 1,530
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Originally Posted by snopercod
Thanks Gordon. I see that four or five of us Lancair guys have crossed the border illegally into Van's Air Force land. Maybe Doug needs to build a wall? Seriously, there's much more useful information over here than on the Lancairtalk forum. Please, Doug, can I have a green card?
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Did you go the QB fuselage route on the Lancair build?
https://www.unitedsiteservices.com/s...?itok=sDEenD6J
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Hop-Along Aerodrome (12VA)
RV-6A - N30YD - Built '98 / sold '20
RV-10 - N130YD reserved - under construction
donating monthly to the VAF - thanks, Doug
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05-04-2017, 10:21 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Asheville, NC
Posts: 2,106
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill Boyd
Did you go the QB fuselage route on the Lancair build?
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No, I did it the hard way. BTW, that photo you posted was a Glasair, not a Lancair. 
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05-04-2017, 11:39 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central IL
Posts: 5,516
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Originally Posted by Lancair Super ES
Hi John... your Lancair friends miss you! Glad you are still doing your great videos.
Check in at Lancair Talk sometime.
Gordon
ES N144GP
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priceless - - - just priceless. 
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RV-7
Lord Kelvin:
“I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about,
and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you
cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge
is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.”
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06-07-2017, 02:58 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Asheville, NC
Posts: 2,106
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Another outing
As I was closing the canopy to do some boring touch and goes at AVL, my RV buddy walked up and asked if I wanted to to the Western Part of NC. Heyal yeah! So we both launched off and flew down the Blue Ridge Parkway at 8,500'. Our first stop was Macon County [1A5]. I had never been there before.
After BSing with the FBO staff for a while, we saddled up and flew further West to Andrews-Murphy, AKA Western Carolina Regional [KRHP]. I had never been there either.
All in all it was a fun day, I got to fly someplace new and we encountered only light turbulence over the mountains. It sure beats pattern work!
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06-07-2017, 07:37 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Asheville, NC
Posts: 2,692
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Glad to see my neighbor and roomy are having fun! 
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Bill Pendergrass
ME/AE '82
RV-7A: Flying since April 15, 2012. 850 hrs
YIO-360-M1B, mags, CS, GRT EX and WS H1s & A/P, Navworx
Unpainted, polished....kinda'... Eyeballin' vinyl really hard.
Yeah. The boss got a Silhouette Cameo 4 Xmas 2019.
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06-08-2017, 05:12 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Asheville, NC
Posts: 2,106
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Originally Posted by rzbill
Glad to see my neighbor and roomy are having fun! 
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We wish you had been there to come along! It was a rare, smooth day over the Blue Ridge Mountains. Here's what it looked like from my tail-cam. I had been planning to land on the numbers at 1A5 but landed longer so as not to take out the guy mowing the grass:
Blue Ridge Parkway
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06-11-2017, 01:58 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Asheville, NC
Posts: 2,106
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Rutherfordton
Owen and I met at Rutherfordton Co. [KFQD] for lunch at 57 Alpha Cafe. It's a quaint little place with about ten chairs inside, and some rocking chairs and picnic tables outside. Closed Mondays. (There was another beautiful blue RV-6 there, but the couple left before I could snap a photo.)

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06-18-2017, 02:40 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Asheville, NC
Posts: 2,106
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GMU for Father's Day
Three of us flew from the Asheville area to Greenville Downtown [GMU] for lunch today. Darwin took off right behind me from AVL and we demonstrated that his RV-4 is faster on climbout than a Lancair with it's gear down. Yup, like a dumb azz I forgot to raise my gear for a few minutes (how embarrassing for me). ATC actually had to de-conflict us so the RV-4 didn't chew my tail off! Traffic Alert!.
Lunch was great as always at the Runway Cafe and they gave us all a 20% discount for flying in. (I don't know if that discount is permanent or just for Father's Day.)
On the way back, I left 10 minutes before Darwin's little rocket ship.

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06-19-2017, 09:31 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Asheville, NC
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short video clip
Here's a short video clip of the beautiful scenery between AVL and GMU. This was taken over TUXDO intersection. The RV-4 was about a mile off to my right.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jxqybmx9sz...louds.mp4?dl=0
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06-26-2017, 01:07 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Asheville, NC
Posts: 2,106
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RV-Lancair-Corby Starlet Day!
We had a crew of four at GMU today, including an RV-12, RV-4, Lancair 235, and a beautiful Corby Starlet. While we were eating lunch and telling stories, it came to light that all four of us had either worked in a steel mill, had a parent who did, or had taken a tour of a steel mill back in the day. What are the odds of that these days?
We filled up the ramp:
Leo's beautiful Starlet:
Darwin and Leo:
Darwin, Owen, and Leo:

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