Inverted in the middle of a slow roll at 10,000?, I looked at the EFIS and saw the magic event. In the blink of an eye, three digits (plus a decimal) became four digits (plus a decimal), and the Valkyrie had 1,000 hours on her airframe ? just like that! Now I?ll be the first to admit that 1.2 of those hours were accumulated during engine ground runs before the first flight?.and Danny King put 1.6 hours on during a ferry flight. But other than those two exceptions, it?s been just me and the Val in a week short of four years, clocking up time to the magic (first) Thousand.
But the story is more than just a number. It?s countless flights of twenty or thirty minutes in the local area, flying for the sheer fun of being free in three dimensions. It?s four years of travel ? coast to coast, northern border to southern border. The Val has been over the Pacific and the Atlantic in the same week, touched Canada and Mexico in short order a little while later. Oshkosh a couple times, home to Minnesota a bunch, and out to the mountains of Southern California quite a few times. The nation's capital, the southeast - we've been around....
In those four years, we?ve built a new life with Louise and her RV-6 ? a meeting brought about by the RV Life. We?ve settled in to airpark living, and enjoyed the camaraderie of like-minded aviators. But most of all, we?ve flown ? 250 hours per year, reliably, safely, and with total freedom to go where we want.
A thousand hours ? time for a little extra maintenance I suppose, then on to more adventures in the wide open sky!
Paul
But the story is more than just a number. It?s countless flights of twenty or thirty minutes in the local area, flying for the sheer fun of being free in three dimensions. It?s four years of travel ? coast to coast, northern border to southern border. The Val has been over the Pacific and the Atlantic in the same week, touched Canada and Mexico in short order a little while later. Oshkosh a couple times, home to Minnesota a bunch, and out to the mountains of Southern California quite a few times. The nation's capital, the southeast - we've been around....
In those four years, we?ve built a new life with Louise and her RV-6 ? a meeting brought about by the RV Life. We?ve settled in to airpark living, and enjoyed the camaraderie of like-minded aviators. But most of all, we?ve flown ? 250 hours per year, reliably, safely, and with total freedom to go where we want.
A thousand hours ? time for a little extra maintenance I suppose, then on to more adventures in the wide open sky!
Paul
