As always, food is a great motivator! Earlier in the week, the mention of Saturday morning food was made and voila – a respectable group made the trek to Grants, NM for breakfast. There were seven people and five airplanes. A Cessna 170, Cessna 180, Mooney 231, Vans RV-4, and me in my RV-3B. I flew over… [Read More]
Grants Video
One of the common breakfast flights for those of us in the Albuquerque area is to Grants, NM. It sits on I-40 about 70 miles west of Albuquerque. The airport manager there (Les) is a super friendly guy and always has a courtesy car available for us to make a run to the Wow Diner…. [Read More]
Magdalena
I dropped into the Magdalena, NM airport (N29) a few weeks ago and took the following video on departure. Magdalena is at 6700′ MSL and is a 6000′ long runway. As you can see from the video, the RV-3 doesn’t need much of it to get airborne. I got a kick out of the dust… [Read More]
Badlands Video
The following is a fun little video that a friend of mine captured. He is flying an RV-4 with the camera mounted on the wing. I am obviously in the lead in the RV-3. This was filmed a few miles west of Los Lunas, NM (E98). As usual, it was a beautiful morning and we… [Read More]
Imperial Nebraska
I did a bit of flying last weekend. I was supposed to go to Minneapolis to work in the offices of the company for which I work so off I went. Sadly, the weather did not cooperate. I am a chicken pilot when it comes to weather. That said; I like the feeling of being… [Read More]