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North Carolina airport tour
by Ron Schreck
I can’t say that I’m ready to do it all over again, but a long shower and a good night’s sleep are just what I needed after flying for over 17 hours on July 4th! I’m not sure where the idea came from, but at some point I decided that it sure would be neat to touch down at all of the public use airports in North Carolina. Then some idiot (perhaps me) suggested that it might be possible to do it in one day! That’s 109 landings in 24 hours! (110 if you count my home field, which is a private airport.)
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4000 nm in a Rocket (VAF)
October trip to the Bahamas (Kirk Groves)
RVs at Peach State Aerodrome
If the people at Van's ever decide to show how an RV is beautiful just sitting on the ground (or slightly above it), then photographer Don Neuberg of Outwardbound Photography will have images all over future issues of the Van's calendar. Don is also a commercial pilot. He sends along these fine images from last Saturday's fly-in at Peach State Aerodrome in Georgia.
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Scapoose fly-in pictures (EAA 326)
Ramp checks the FAA way
A pair of FAA inspectors engaged members of the Minnesota Wing of Van's Air Force at the group's quarterly meeting at South St. Paul Municipal Airport (SGS) last Saturday. Oddly, though, neither indicated any knowledge of the RV airplane, which may mean they haven't "ramp checked" many of them. In both cases, they stressed the FAA isn't out to get pilots when conducting ramp checks.
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See a Flash slideshow from the Minnesota Wing meeting
Aerobatics in an RV
On the SoCal YGroup this week, Bryan Dukes said "I posted my last video a little over a month ago. After 4 weekends in Alaska for a work trip, I'm back & just put together another video of me doing aerobatics in my -6. The camera is my soon-to-be tailcam 170deg wide-angle bullet camera mounted with a RAM-Mount in the cockpit. The video for this release was shot on a single 30-minute flight - no footage was repeated.
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YouTube: RV aerobatic videos
SoCal YGroup thread
The tailcam project
Scenes from the NW RV Fly-in
This year's 16th Annual NW RV Fly-in was a bit damper than in years past. In fact, som eof us couldn't get there until after noon. And it's not because we couldn't get out of bed either. Overall, the Fly In was a success. Yes, it did rain a little, the BlackJacks didn't make it. We did, however have a great time and hosted an estimated 60-70 RVs.
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One of the things that fascinates me about building an RV airplane, is the opportunity to work with a variety of materials. By this stage of construction -- the finishing kit -- most builders (and even me if I think about it long enough) are pretty darned comfortable with sheet metal work. In fact, by now it becomes our security blanket. Nervous about working with fiberglass or plexiglass or electrical work? No problem, do some airframe work on ye olde aluminum.
Everybody should have a good hangar hound. But how do you get to be this cool?
[EAA 1401] 
Except for the wings that required a hangar, Larry Helming of Evansville built his bright yellow, single-engine airplane in his 16-by-20-foot garage at home.
[Evansville Courier and Press] 
