A view out the right side of the Rebel from June/July 2008, at the Grand Tetons on a trip from Yellowstone to Blanding.
The Rebel tailwheel is new and makes the airplane sit a bit higher while taxiing. The feel of the ground handling is a little different, but I will adjust to her. Mike continues to experiment with vortex generators and something he calls darts on the wing and horizontal tail. This is to allow more control over flight into the dirt strips of Utah and Idaho - this spring and summer. We should see plenty of those backcountry strips soon.
The windy weather has made flying hit and miss here south of Albuquerque for the last few days. We took advantage of the winds to get some crosswind landing practice at Belen Alexander yesterday and a landing on our East/West dirt runway at Mid Valley on our return from our breakfast flight to Belen.
Mike spent the weekend building a presentation on Southwest Landscapes that he will be giving to the Women of Mid Valley this Tuesday, March 10th at our monthly meeting at our house. His photos are mostly aerial photos of the Southwestern US taken from nearly all our airplanes - a snowy long view of Mount Taylor in the winter from the Glasair III, many photos of Monument Valley and Bryce Canyon from the Rebel, the Abajos and golden aspen from the RV-4, Factory Butte with a dark cloud backdrop from the Kolb Firestar II, and more recently his photos of Deming, Silver City, and Arizona from the Rans S-18! Awesome! We agree - the best viewing platform (other than the actual airplane) will be our 52 inch Sony Bravia with accompanying music on the Sony Surround Sound system. Blows you away!
Next weekend, we take a Over 55 Driving Course here at Mid Valley - gets us insurance discounts.
Back to work for me tomorrow after my usual 3 day holiday - I read all the blogs of full-timers and long for the day when I can just take wing and/or our LD and not have to think about a definite return date.
Jan
ReplyDeleteSounds like you're having a great time. I'd love to see the photo presentation, maybe you could post it here?
Kate
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Kate - I am not sure if I can do that, but will look into it. Check back here.
ReplyDeleteJan