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Old 04-11-2013, 02:31 AM
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Old 04-11-2013, 02:56 AM
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I'm in love
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Well Gentleman,

The weather is looking great for a maiden on Saturday, the only thing I see is the date, it's the 13th. [X(]
Old 04-11-2013, 03:22 AM
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At least its not Friday! Go for it , what field are you thinking of?


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Whichever one my truck takes me to.
Old 04-11-2013, 03:34 AM
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Good luck and I know you will do great, to bad you wont get to post any pics of the maiden, at least not here.

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Old 04-11-2013, 07:30 AM
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Go for it Gary, 13th is my lucky day, as a matter of fact Saturday will be the wife and mine 28th aniversary, and we were both born on the 13th differant months but all the same, Good luck to you and enjoy your maiden

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Congratulations on your anniversary Yates.

Edwin will have his fancy HD video camera there so we can capture the moment. Hopefully all goes well, if not, it's been raining here all week, so the ground is nice and squishy.
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Saturday
Partly cloudy. High of 79F. Winds from the ESE at 5 to 20 mph.


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I'll resemble that little dude above there on Saturday, watch.
Old 04-11-2013, 08:59 AM
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See if it works....

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Old 04-11-2013, 08:59 AM
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Get there early!

7:00 AM
52 °F Partly Cloudy
Winds 3 mph ENE
10% chance of precip.

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I actually want some wind as long as it's down the runway, getting a 29 pound plane to slow down in no wind would be more difficult for me.
Old 04-12-2013, 02:18 AM
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Good luck my friend, she will be fine... Looking forward to the vid.........

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Thanks buddy, will get a link up ASAP.
Old 04-13-2013, 03:43 AM
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Good Luck Gary

Look forward to seeing some video and pictures.
Yep can upload now even if it is one at a time. It did take about three tries each picture.

Will you be going to Bomberfield June 1st for the Warbird Flyin?
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Hey Rick!

Thanks, I plan on being at bomber this year, all depends on how things go when we get a little closer.
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Looks like we are back online....at list for now
Anyway, the pig was on the rotisserie for the whole week. Last picture is before went inside for chart tape.
Hopefully by next week the lines will be all in and the rivet fest can begin.

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Old 04-13-2013, 06:06 PM
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Looks great Fabio! Can't wait to see her with some panel lines.
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So, today was a great day, she finally flew! Thanks to all the guys at the club that came out to support me and calm my nerves, it was really nice having you all there on the flight line with me.
Edwin filmed the whole thing in HD and is putting a disk of that together for me. For now he sent me some lower quality video so ya'll can see. First vid is the start-up and takeoff, then some fly bys
I ended up flying for about 9 min, she handled like a dream!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eTg5RqUl2Y[/youtube]

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Fly-bys

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another

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Congratulations on the maiden Gary.
Touch down was sweet...

Man, the gun range was busy today.
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fly by

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Thanks Rick!

Looking forward to Bomber now that the maiden is out of the way.


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