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Well after a year of playing calendar bingo I was finally able to give a friend from church a ride in the RV-4 today.  It took quite a lot of negotiating but we finally did it. I met up with Dave
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I just got back from a week at church camp. Our guest speaker was speaking on how to train boys to be young men. When the subject of teaching them skills came up he gave us a four step training pr
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Even though I’ve explained this to my friends already I keep getting questions about why I’m selling the RV-4. I really enjoy the RV-4. I’ve invested roughly 10 years of my life
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Okay, I enjoy flying to out of the way places. I really enjoy challenging approaches and departures at an airport. But this is one take-off that I hadn’t seen that often. If you’re t
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I haven’t been updating this blog much lately. I’ve been busy with issues at work, work at church, and a few other miscellaneous side projects.
Something happened at work today that made
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The plane that is. Finally, after 5 years of construction, and 5 years of flying (has it been THAT long?) my RV-4 is finished. Here is the final result:
I’ve had so many friends tell me that
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It’s finally come down to it, time to sell the RV-4. I swore that this would be my last airplane but my flying mission has changed. I really want to start getting into the old back country strip
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I got a call while I was on vacation that my RV-4 has been painted. I have no idea what it looks like. Well, that’s not true. It’s white. All white. But it will still look like a dif
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Day 2 was really our first day camping. We spent the night but really didn’t get to enjoy our surrounding until the next morning. The campground and it’s surroundings were beautiful. I
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My family and I just returned from a week at Zion Canyon in Utah. When you see pictures of national parks you can usually bet they’ve been doctored up a bit to enhance the beauty of the place.
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Thanks to the generosity and hospitality of the Hector family we got to enjoy a fun two days in beautiful surroundings with wonderful people. First off I’d like to thank the Hector family who h
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Everything finally came together today. The Lord saw fit to give us some beautiful weather both here in California and also over in Nevada so I was actually able to get my plane over to the paint sho
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I have to admit to being a little nervous about flying over to Yerington. I’m not even sure why. I’ve flown over the Sierras plenty of times. There is just something about this time.
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Well I checked the weather this weekend and I’ll have to postpone my trip again. There is a windy weather system moving in over the Sierras this weekend. Doesn’t look too good. I don
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I recently purchased a recumbent bike on eBay. My goal was to save some money on the commute to work and to get in better shape. I went with a recumbent bike because, well, shall we say my seat was
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Well I wasn’t able to meet the schedule for painting my plane. I had a severe head cold all week and just was not able to complete the work in time. I finished up the remainder of the work t
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I don’t normally ask for prayer but I’ll make an exception this time because no one normally reads my blog. I am 7 days away from having to take my plane over to Nevada to be painted.Â
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I have fabricated a new top deck. This is the portion of the upper fuselage just forward of the canopy. I have aligned and mounted the wheel pants as well. Tomorrow I will stop by the airport an
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I just have a few minor nits to complete on my panel. I have to mount an ventilation duct and that’s about it for the panel. All that’s left now is to install the new top deck just for
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There was a question on the Yahoo group RANSflyers recently about a tailwheel that would not swivel freely. I advised the pilot to check the pin within the swivel assembly of the tailwheel. He the
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I’ve finished putting the pressure recover wheel pants together. There’s not much work involved there other than some trimming and installing nutplates. I am hoping to finish up my ins
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I finished my new instrument panel, now all that remains is to install it in the RV-4 and reinstall all the instruments. I’ll have to re-route on of my fresh-air vents but other than that it s
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Yesterday I removed my instrument panel from the RV-4. Today I drilled out all the “stuff” that was attached to the instrument panel and will now use it as a template to cut out my new in
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I made some small steps toward selling the RV-4. I reworked the canopy hinge that connects the canopy to the fuselage. There were some hinge eyes broken off so I drilled out those sections of hinge a
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I have to thank God that He has seen fit to bring me help in the form of two additional deacons. I’ve started showing them the ropes the past two Sundays.  They both live some distance from
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RV as in RV-4, RV-6, RV-7, RV-8, RV-9 and RV-10 aircraft. Quite a community has arisen around these capable little airplanes. People have made small fortunes because of Van’s Aircraft airplane
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Every Valentine’s Day I go out and look for cards and every year they just seem to become more superficial. I don’t know if the cards are changing or I am changing but they don’t sa
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I’m now doing what I hope is the last annual condition inspection on my RV-4. There have been a few minor squawks but I’ve got them fixed up. My work now turns on rebuilding the instru
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The RV-7 is officially gone. A gentleman from southern California bought it and carted it off just yesterday. What a relief. So this officially ends my RV-7 log.Â
Now all I have to do is invest
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Life has been a litte intense lately so I thought I’d write on a lighter topic.
I have an offer on the RV-7 kit. The gentleman should be here in a few days with a cashier’s check in ha
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God always answers prayer. It is not always the answer we want. I try to remember that our God is far more merciful and gratious and loving than I can conceive in my feeble, mortal brain. I have
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A good friend and a giant in our church is very sick. He desparately needs your prayer. His condition is nothing that God can’t fix. Please pray to our sovereign God to restore my friend.Â
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Reality really stinks sometimes but it’s all we have. I’ve come to the realization that I am not going to have the money to finish the RV-7 so I have made a painful decision. I will be s
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I’m not always faithful to God. But He is always faithful to me. The past month has been very trying on a personal level; trials at church, trials at home, trials in the workplace. There
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God be praised…
He is faithful and true.
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Sleep well my friend, once you awaken you will never know I was here. You will not remember the Psalms I read to you. You will not know the prayers I said in the dim twilight of the room. But w
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Let him sit alone in silence when it is laid on him; let him put his mouth in the dust-there may yet be hope; let him give his cheek to the one who strikes, and let him be filled with insults. For t
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I finally found time to work on the RV-7. Between family, church, and work I have had very little free time. To date I’ve prepped both spars, assembled the skeleton of the left wing and begun
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Our church needs prayer again. We have an otherwise healthy man in the hospital struggling for every breath with no discernible cause for his condition. We have a child diagnosed with diabetes, the
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Day two was our first full day in Playa Del Carmen. Our plan for the day had only two items on it: lay on the beach and be idle, and go into town to buy some shoes. They would not let me got to dinn
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We’ve been back from our vacation for a couple of weeks now. I haven’t have much time to update this site because of all the catch up I had to do. Catching up on work, catching up with fri
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Not much has been happening in life but work work work. That is to change soon. I’m taking my bride of 20 years to Playa Del Carmen, Mexico. Look for a trip report in a couple of weeks.Â
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In the past few weeks we have had a child diagnosed with type 1 Diabetes, the second daughter in that family with such a diagnosis, we have had a child attacked by a dog while on a camping trip, we ha
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I have no illusions about who reads my blog. I know it is only about a handful of regulars and then the odd internet surfer who stumbles upon it and then moves on. I know my regulars (all three of
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Well where does the time go? I had intended to document every day of my visit to Oshkosh but that just never happened. We were either too busy or just plain too whooped to do anything when we got ba
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Just spent my first full day at Oshkosh. My feet are killing me, my sinuses are killing me, but I’m happy, what a fun day. My friends and I spent the day browsing the aircraft vendors, checkin
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Well, after several months of on again off again construction I have finally completed the empenage of the RV-7. The empenage is more popularly known as the tail. This is made up of the vertical sta
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I can’t believe where technology has gone in the past few years. For instance, I’m sitting in Picasso’s, a downtown Modesto cafe, and just finished a delicious sandwich. I’m
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Many have read John Piper’s Desiring God. I’m actually reading another of Piper’s books which is really a flip side to the coin. It’s entitled, When I Don’t DesireÂ
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God has been very good to me indeed. He has blessed me far more than what I deserve. One of His MANY blessings has been the gift of flight. Through flying I have come to appreciate God’s land
