You are all very kind and from all of us at Team RV, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
It was a thrill and honor for us to perform at SnF. I stood there about 9 years ago with the very early team members, in awe over the Aeroshell team. I watched their grace and beauty.. Their precision...I vowed that day, someday, that would be me. (pic below of that moment)
This week I fulfilled that dream. To loop and roll in front of the huge audience of homebuilders, do it yourselfers, and pilots keeping the dream of flying alive with every rivet they pound, & every wrench they turn.
I had the pleasure of watching Paul perform a high yoyo rejoin on 12 with the RV-1 as we approached SnF from the south. It was darn cool. And to arrive to display a piece of history that so many of my friends worked hard on to get airworthy again.... It was a special moment. An entire group of volunteers worked to get that plane to SnF safely. I was there to see Vans greet the plane for the first time.. Crawling in... Poking around with an eye for seeing it as it was. You had to be there to appreciate it.
Then to fly in front of all those homebuilders.. Hard to get any better than that.
The team had a wirlwind 10 days of 14, yes 14 performances. Geez. From a 12 ship jet truck race, to a night show debut at the Florida International Air Show with my father watching me fly for the first time, to circle the jumpers, to a night race with the jet truck and a wall of flame pyro, to SnF... It was an action packed 10 days. Ive got the best team of men & women there is. Im living my dream.
Thanks to you all for your kind words of appreciation and encouragement.
I guess Ill have to rethink those new props we were gonna ad for the noise and growl
