RV-8 and the Cloudy, and a Little Rainy, Chehalis Trip
Saturday 6/29/24 was a nice, but somewhat cloudy day here. There was a system moving through Saturday night and into Sunday so the...
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Steve
- May 25
- 6 min
RV-8 and the Homebuilt Electric Tug
Part 1, 5/25/24. As I get older, I find that some things are not as easy as they used to be (I know, just me right?), particularly things...
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Steve
- Apr 20
- 4 min
RV-8 and the Bumpy Post Maintenance Flight
Friday 4/19/24 I finally had all of my yearly maintenance completed and was looking forward to getting out and flying. The weather was...
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Steve
- Apr 20
- 2 min
RV-8 and the 2024 Condition Inspection Part 8
C'est Finis. Thursday 4/18/24 and I am finally able to wrap up the 2024 CI. It was, in all actuality, a pretty straight forward...
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Steve
- Apr 13
- 5 min
RV-8 and the 2024 Condition Inspection Part 7
Progress is being made. Saturday 4/13/24 was a much clearer day than expected. It was tempting to try to throw the airplane back...
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Steve
- Apr 9
- 4 min
RV-8 and the 2024 Condition Inspection Part 6
After finishing the firewall forward part in Part 5, I took a break last weekend to fly (video here). That is one reason why I do this...
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Steve
- Mar 24
- 7 min
RV-8 and the 2024 Condition Inspection Part 5
With the messiest part out of the way, it was time to finish up the firewall forward portion of the inspection. Fortunately, Saturday...
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Steve
- Mar 22
- 3 min
RV-8 and the 2024 Condition Inspection Part 4
With the brakes finished, it was time to start on the next worst part, firewall forward. On the one hand, I like having the opportunity...
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Steve
- Mar 14
- 5 min
RV-8 and the 2024 Condition Inspection Part 3
In this case anyway, the third time was the charm. Thursday 3/14/24 worked out better than the last couple of tries did. I got all of...
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Steve
- Mar 10
- 3 min
RV-8 and the 2024 Condition Inspection Part 2
Sometimes it feels like things are just stacked against me. I made a soft start to my condition inspection last week and encountered a...
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Steve
- Mar 2
- 5 min
RV-8 and the 2024 Condition Inspection Part 1
The weekend of 3/2 and 3/3 2024 was supposed to be the kickoff of my 2024 Condition Inspection. I do a progressive condition inspection...
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Steve
- Feb 25
- 3 min
RV-8 and the Wonderful Westport Trip
Friday 2/23/24 was an even nicer day than it was forecasted to be. Saturday was supposed to be, and in fact was, a day of mostly clouds,...
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Steve
- Feb 4
- 5 min
RV-8 and the Really Cool Cloud Formations
Saturday 2/3/24 was a nicer day than expected. Most of the week called for either rain or cloudy all day Saturday. The Model Output...
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Steve
- Nov 5, 2023
- 11 min
RV-8 and the Last Weekend in October 2023
The last weekend in October 2023 was a very nice one. We had just finished almost a week of rain and were headed for another week of...
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Steve
- Aug 20, 2023
- 7 min
RV-8 and the Bumpy Chehalis Flight
Friday 8/18/23 was a day that was supposed to be much cooler than the past week, and it was. Carl had just got his airplane back from...
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Steve
- Aug 13, 2023
- 5 min
RV-8 and the Sourdough Fire
Saturday 8/12/23 was the beginning of a warming trend, but was still bringing acceptable temperatures. Gone was the the thick smoke from...
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Steve
- Aug 6, 2023
- 7 min
RV-8 and the Smoky Saturday
Saturday 8/5/23 marked a somewhat odd change in our weather pattern. All week we have had some to a few clouds in the morning with...
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Steve
- Jul 31, 2023
- 6 min
RV-8 and the Solo Forks Run
Saturday 7/29/23 was a nice day all around. Not too hot, not too windy, but there was a rather persistent marine layer. Since I was on...
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Steve
- Jul 24, 2023
- 8 min
RV-8 and the Busy Weekend
Friday 7/21/23 was a very busy day, both for me and for others. Surprisingly though, Saturday 7/22/23 was considerably less so. At...
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Steve
- Jul 17, 2023
- 5 min
RV-8 and the Warm Weekend
The weekend of 7/14/23 and 7/15/23 was a warm one. Not record setting warm by any stretch of the imagination, but warmer than I care for....
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