Cruising the neighborhood

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Re: Cruising the neighborhood

Postby Sonex1517 » Sat Jul 23, 2016 2:03 pm

I agree Bryan

This would be a great launching point...and it occurs to me, isn't next year the 20th anniversary of the Sonex?
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Re: Cruising the neighborhood

Postby sonex892. » Tue Aug 09, 2016 4:42 am

A bit off topic here Bryan. Really just about how small the world is. It was a beautiful morning here on the east coast of NSW Australia this morning. I took one of our local flying club members up for a fly in the Sonex this morning. After we got back from the flight he was telling me about his trip to Oshkosh 2016.
The highlight of his trip was bumming a ride out of Oshkosh in a homebuilt biplane to this great little airport community west of Chicago. A place called Poplar Grove.
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Re: Cruising the neighborhood

Postby Bryan Cotton » Tue Aug 09, 2016 7:32 am

Cool story Steve! Was it the Marquart Challenger? I saw them at Oshkosh and they fly a lot.
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Re: Cruising the neighborhood

Postby sonex892. » Tue Aug 09, 2016 3:13 pm

That sounds like it Bryan.
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Re: Cruising the neighborhood

Postby Bryan Cotton » Sat Sep 03, 2016 11:16 am

Lesson #2. They are preflighting now.
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dual sticks with sport trainer controls
Prebuilt spars and machined angle kit
Year 2 flying and approaching 200 hours December 23
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Re: Cruising the neighborhood

Postby Bryan Cotton » Sat Sep 03, 2016 1:02 pm

Getting chased in by a Stearman:
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S turns:
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Lots of Stearmans here today. At least 8. One of my neighbors spread his brother's ashes over his favorite golf course today from his (neighbor not brother) former Stearman.
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Poplar Grove, IL C77
Waiex 191 N191YX
Taildragger, Aerovee, acro ailerons
dual sticks with sport trainer controls
Prebuilt spars and machined angle kit
Year 2 flying and approaching 200 hours December 23
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Re: Cruising the neighborhood

Postby Bryan Cotton » Sun Sep 11, 2016 6:11 pm

Not a great video, but the sound is unmistakeable!
https://youtu.be/vSDSW9A_cCo
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dual sticks with sport trainer controls
Prebuilt spars and machined angle kit
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Re: Cruising the neighborhood

Postby Bryan Cotton » Sat Sep 17, 2016 12:01 am

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Waiex 191 N191YX
Taildragger, Aerovee, acro ailerons
dual sticks with sport trainer controls
Prebuilt spars and machined angle kit
Year 2 flying and approaching 200 hours December 23
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Re: Cruising the neighborhood

Postby Bryan Cotton » Sat Sep 24, 2016 1:17 pm

The C77 C170 fly-in. One C170, one DO27, one Sonex.
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Josh couldn't make 3MY today due to weather so stopped here. Got my first Sonex ride. Thanks Josh! Also my first flight since November 2013!
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Poplar Grove, IL C77
Waiex 191 N191YX
Taildragger, Aerovee, acro ailerons
dual sticks with sport trainer controls
Prebuilt spars and machined angle kit
Year 2 flying and approaching 200 hours December 23
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Re: Cruising the neighborhood

Postby Bryan Cotton » Sat Sep 24, 2016 9:14 pm

Since Adam is learning to fly in a J3, the instructor taught him to hand prop. I offered him up to hangar neighbor Jim.
https://youtu.be/MMd4jpZsdQY

Adam's instructor flies an Ag Cat for his day job - built at Schweizer where I used to work, by my friends in chapter 533 and at Harris Hill.
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dual sticks with sport trainer controls
Prebuilt spars and machined angle kit
Year 2 flying and approaching 200 hours December 23
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