Bill's Aviation Log
Hobbs meter:189 hours
- Flying Log - (2003 to Present Day)
- Builders Log - Five years,
3000+ hours
This is prime flying season and I've been taking full advantage. Between Fly-Ins, Formation practice with Dragon Flight, Soaring, or just flying around on my own doing aerobatics, airwork practice or sightseeing, it never gets old.
- June 20, 2010 - Dragon Flight at York Open House
- June 19, 2010 - Visit to Jenkins Boneyard
- June 17, 2010 - TurboCub Project, EAA Chapter Meeting
- June 12, 2010 - 6-Ship Formation with Dragon Flight
- May 31, 2010 - Soaring & RVing at the Flying Cow
- May 26, 2010 - Blue Angels
- April 10, 2010 - P-8 Poseidon
- May 22, 2010 - Virginia Festival of Flight, Suffolk, VA (SFQ)
- May 16, 2010 - Dragon Flight flys with the Ohio Valley RVators; Wedding Fly-by
- May 15, 2010 - Pancake Breakfast at New Garden, PA; Warrenton, VA Fly-In; Soaring at Flycow
- May 5, 2010 - Midweek fligiht after work
- May 2, 2010 - Landing at Clearview
- May 1, 2010 - Essex Skypark Flyer Monthly Breakfast
- April 24, 2010 - Massey Chili Fiesta Fly-In
- April 16, 2010 - Tennessee Air Museum
- April 15, 2010 - Museum of Naval Aviation
- April 12-14, 2010 - Sun 'N Fun 2010
- April 3, 2010 - Stripes are done!
- April 2, 2010 - Paint Black and Clear
- March 27&28, 2010 - Painting Invasion Stripes on the RV
- March 20, 2010 - Dragon Flight Form Practice -- great pictures
- March 7, 2010 - Form Practice with Dragon Flight
- March 6, 2010 - National Air & Space Museum, Udvar-Hazy Center
- February 28, 2010 - Form practice, snow
- February 27, 2010 - Submarine Group Change of Command
- February 6, 2010 - Most snow in Maryland history
- January 31, 2010 - Snow at Essex Skypark
- January 23, 2010 - Form Practice with Mike R.
- January 17, 2010 - Wheel Pants maintenance
- January 16, 2010 - Form Practice and first immediate family member flies in the RV.
- January 8-10, 2010 - Vacation in Marathon, FL
- December 19, 2009 - Big Snowfall
This web page logs the building of my Vans RV-7 kitplane as well as my flying adventures. I started my RV-7 slow-build kit in early 2004. Just a little over five years later I flew it for the first time. My RV-7 has side-by-side seating and a tip-up canopy. It's powered bya Mattituck TMX-360, straight carburator, with one magneto and one Lightspeed electronic ignition. It spins a constant speed Hartzell blended airfoil propeller. The RV is night-VFR capable. The panel is anchored by a Dynon FD-180 which has both flight and engine instruments. I also have an SL-60 GPS/Comm and Garmin GTX-327 transponder. I have a Garmin GPSMap 496 mounted in an Airgizmo panel dock. Finally, I have a TruTrak Pictorial Pilot Wing leveler autopilot. The plane is fast, nimble and aerobatic. An aerial sports car. It is really quite amazing that it is possible for a single individual to be able to build such a fantastic flying machine.