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Congratulations to Captain John on his first flight!
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 8:38 am
by bullojm1
Captain John had his first flight of his RV-7 yesterday! Congrats!
The RV Grin!
CJ, I'm a bit worried about your attire here....you've been hanging out with the Canadiens too much - you're wearing 2/3 of a Canadian Tuxedo!
Woo Hoo!
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 9:14 am
by aparchment
Congratulations brotha!
Really happy for you.
Antony
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 11:12 am
by plbarrett2004
Congratulations!!!!
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 11:53 am
by cjensen
Saweet!!!! So happy for you CEEJAY! Big time RV grins for ya!
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 12:19 pm
by stevewiz
Congrats to you. Very exciting I'm sure.
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 4:07 pm
by joe plihal
Very Nice!!! Congratulations!!!
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 5:46 pm
by Vlad
Now I know why Machineman was landing at Plymouth on Sunday afternoon. I happened to be in the air in the vicinity of Boston. Congratulations Captain!
Here is the brief history of the build
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 7:20 am
by leffler
Congrats!
It's certainly an ego boost to fly an aircraft that you built.
Enjoy!
bob
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 11:04 am
by Spike
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 12:20 pm
by painless
How awesome is that??? Wicked awesome! Way to go CJ!
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 1:58 pm
by Brantel
Awesome CJ! Great job!
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 1:59 pm
by captain_john
Thanks guys!
It has been quite a journey.
I have some minor squawks like dialing back my prop governor and trimming the #2 cylinder head baffle. I also have a heavy left wing that I need to deal with.
Getting the radios to work as I want will take some saddle time. I need to get the sidetones at the same volume and tune out some occasional interference.
The Baja Designs landing lights are incredible! Thanks for the tip Mikey!
VPX works REMARKABLY WELL!!! Chad, that is an endorsement.
The Mattituck/Eci engine is GREAT!
Thanks to all of you and the people here at my airport that helped me through the process like Billy and Speedpants!
The real excitement is only beginning!
CJ
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 2:02 pm
by captain_john
As my CFII always said as we were cleaning up the airplane and making our way off the runway:
That is stuck to the inside of my tip up canopy to look at at each shut down.
CJ
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 2:45 pm
by bullojm1
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 6:00 pm
by captain_john
TOTALLY!
In fact I was surrounded by drunks! Wait... you were one of them!
CJ
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 8:18 pm
by Joe Parish
Contrast CJ!!!
Enjoy all your hard work. Keep us posted on phase one.
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 12:14 pm
by bruceh
Congrats, and enjoy the flying!
And you get to have company along for the Phase 1?
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 11:01 pm
by bruceh
Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 5:26 am
by speedpants
Great....that should swell his head just big enough for the canopy not to close!
Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 12:07 pm
by captain_john
Lol...
Speedpants, your noggin barely fit as it is!
...and that was witout a headset on!
CJ
