WDYDWYRTW? Jan 24-25, 2026

[DeltaRomeo]

What did you do with your RV this weekend? Sort of a stay-in-the-shop Sat and Sun here in N.TX. Fortunately, being Texas, all this snow and ice should be gone in about 48 hours. Car washes will be busy and the GA planes back in the sky.
Hope less snowy and icy in your area.
v/r,dr
(went to get milk, and took the ‘country way’ because we don’t get views like this too often.)

 

[N8DAV8R]

I used small window in the foggy valley weather to get to Petaluma for 4 days of Rotax Heavy Maintenance. The 65 mile flight takes a little about 40 minutes, instead of a hectic drive through Bay Area traffic that can take up to 3 hours. I did end up giving back all the time that I saved when the weather came back and forced a 1 day delay. Still worth it!

 

[RV7 To Go]

Just another day in our winter wonderland....still no flying this month.

 

[Ironflight]

Made a trip down to SOCAL for a buddie’s 70th birthday party down in Fallbrook. Unfortunately, their runway is being replaced, so I parked the Valkyrie at Big Bear and drove down from there - but had a great trip down to BB with 20 knot tailwinds. Unusual fog covering Mono Lake , and clouds creeping up Cajon pass to the desert on I-5….but plenty of snow in the High Sierra, and just can’t not take a picture of Whitney on the way by!

 

[Ed_Wischmeyer]

The RV-9A is a wondrous plane for exploring slow speed flight, with a big wing, docile stall, lots of thrust, and excellent control authority. And with a new insta360, what better to do than to revisit stalls in a 60° bank at less than 1 G. I've not downloaded the digital data yet, but the two stalls appear to have been at 40 KT and 46 KT. And all this done within the "normal category" envelope. Here's the youtube video.

 

[RNB]

I've had these seat levers for almost a year, finally got them installed. Plane all opened up for inspection.

 

[olyolson]

No flying this weekend but good exercise! Haven’t been out to the hangar yet so dreading that. The plane does fly great in the cold weather though and I have pretty darn good heat since putting in a new heat muff made by Dave Edwards in Nevada.

 

[eavila1]

The RV-9A is a wondrous plane for exploring slow speed flight, with a big wing, docile stall, lots of thrust, and excellent control authority. And with a new insta360, what better to do than to revisit stalls in a 60° bank at less than 1 G. I've not downloaded the digital data yet, but the two stalls appear to have been at 40 KT and 46 KT. And all this done within the "normal category" envelope. Here's the youtube video.

Just curious what you were doing on the rudder for the 60 deg bank during high angle of attack? Any input or nada? Dirty or clean?

 

[Gino230]

I found this old photo of my Uncle in his newly completed Pitts S1-T, around 1982. This was the first day I sat in an airplane, I was about 8. I brought it over to my hangar and hung it up.

Then I went out and screwed up a bunch of Cuban 8's. I need to put a GoPro on that can see both the lines on the ground and the ball to see which one I'm messing up (probably both?).

I took some motivation from my uncle who built 8 airplanes. He passed last year at 92. Ironic I didn't get interested in experimentals until this year.

Tony "sonny" Silvaroli

 

[Ed_Wischmeyer]

Just curious what you were doing on the rudder for the 60 deg bank during high angle of attack? Any input or nada? Dirty or clean?

What rudder input there may have been was nominal -- the -9A needs little rudder.

All the stalls were done clean, just in case the recovery got above flap speed of 87 knots.