May 24, 2014 - Maintenance Check

The saga continues.  This morning the A&P/IA installed the piston and cylinder, then we put back all the other stuff back on:  Exhaust pipes, air intake tubes, CHT and EGT probes, spark plugs, baffling.  It was actually pretty interesting; I learned a lot.  And as we all know, in aviation, you can not know too much.  Ignorance is not bliss.

I started up the engine and eveything looked good.  I did a run-up; all was good.

So there was nothing to do but take the RV for a maintenace test flight.  Since it had new rings, I had to break the cylinder in, which is nothing more than running the engine hard for a few hours.   I flew around the Eastern Shore at 4,000 feet for a couple of hours at 2400/2400.  Which isn't a whole lot different from the way I usually fly it.

I was over Delaware near Summit Airport when I saw this huge warehouse building.  I know Amazon has a distribution center over there; I'm guessing this is it.  It is massive.