Part 1
What a great flying day! After a month in the paint shop, my RV-8 was scheduled to be ready for pick-up ? which was good, because it was just about the only day I had available for awhile! Grady at GLO didn?t call and tell me not to come, so I set out this morning for Hobby airport to hitch a ride on SWA?s regular flight to Dallas ? first friend got me to the airport on his way to work. Second friend ? Ross ?Scorch? Burgess got me on the flight (door to door, it took longer on the airline than it did when he brought me the other way in his RV-6 last month?.).
Upon arrival at Dallas Love, a quick call to Doug Reeves ascertained that he was a few minutes out to pick me up ? friend number?oh heck, there are too many to count! I was reminded in the drive from Love to 52F (home of many RV?s and GLO Custom paint) just how spread out the DFW area really is! AS we arrived at 52F, I was as excited as a kid at Christmas ? couldn?t wait to see what Grady had done! And I was not disappointed ? the paint is amazing, far better than I even imagined. Pictures will be coming soon, I promise ? just need some downloading and editing! But this post is about people, not airplanes!
Grady and Brandon at GLO Custom were just finishing up final assembly as we arrived, so there was plenty of time to look things over and do a careful post-assembly preflight. Monkey showed up to help and look things over, as did Jay Pratt and Danny King. Man, this place is a beehive of activity. As we were getting ready to go do lunch before departure, the phone rang, and it was Scorch ? calling from Houston, where he was getting ready to depart fro Dallas in his Boeing. We arranged for an air-to-air frequency, and synchronized our watches. Good thing too!
Lunch completed, it was time to hit the sky. Did OI mention that after two weeks of hot, clear weather, we had a bunch of moisture and energy moving into the Houston area from the Gulf ? the very day I really needed to fly? Big storms were popping up all over, and I new this before I left for Dallas. I figured that I could pick up the airplane and head south ? plenty of places to land and wait out weather on the way home. Leaving 52F, the weather was hot, but the clouds were scattered ? and there was Doug with his camera, shooting pictures as I departed (after a sorta-high-speed pass?). As I cleared the southern edge of the DFW Class B, I climbed up on top to get out of the bumps, and I could tell I was in for a fun time?..
What a great flying day! After a month in the paint shop, my RV-8 was scheduled to be ready for pick-up ? which was good, because it was just about the only day I had available for awhile! Grady at GLO didn?t call and tell me not to come, so I set out this morning for Hobby airport to hitch a ride on SWA?s regular flight to Dallas ? first friend got me to the airport on his way to work. Second friend ? Ross ?Scorch? Burgess got me on the flight (door to door, it took longer on the airline than it did when he brought me the other way in his RV-6 last month?.).
Upon arrival at Dallas Love, a quick call to Doug Reeves ascertained that he was a few minutes out to pick me up ? friend number?oh heck, there are too many to count! I was reminded in the drive from Love to 52F (home of many RV?s and GLO Custom paint) just how spread out the DFW area really is! AS we arrived at 52F, I was as excited as a kid at Christmas ? couldn?t wait to see what Grady had done! And I was not disappointed ? the paint is amazing, far better than I even imagined. Pictures will be coming soon, I promise ? just need some downloading and editing! But this post is about people, not airplanes!
Grady and Brandon at GLO Custom were just finishing up final assembly as we arrived, so there was plenty of time to look things over and do a careful post-assembly preflight. Monkey showed up to help and look things over, as did Jay Pratt and Danny King. Man, this place is a beehive of activity. As we were getting ready to go do lunch before departure, the phone rang, and it was Scorch ? calling from Houston, where he was getting ready to depart fro Dallas in his Boeing. We arranged for an air-to-air frequency, and synchronized our watches. Good thing too!
Lunch completed, it was time to hit the sky. Did OI mention that after two weeks of hot, clear weather, we had a bunch of moisture and energy moving into the Houston area from the Gulf ? the very day I really needed to fly? Big storms were popping up all over, and I new this before I left for Dallas. I figured that I could pick up the airplane and head south ? plenty of places to land and wait out weather on the way home. Leaving 52F, the weather was hot, but the clouds were scattered ? and there was Doug with his camera, shooting pictures as I departed (after a sorta-high-speed pass?). As I cleared the southern edge of the DFW Class B, I climbed up on top to get out of the bumps, and I could tell I was in for a fun time?..
