RV-8 and the 2023 Condition Inspection Pt. 2
My 2023 Condition Inspection continues over the weekend of 3/24/23 through 3/26/23. A couple of weeks ago I inspected, cleaned, and...
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Steve
- Mar 20
- 9 min
RV-8 and the Search for Lunch
Friday 3/17/23 was simply too nice a day to spend at work. So I didn't. It was the warmest day of the year so far with a high of about...
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Steve
- Feb 26
- 7 min
RV-8 and the Son of Cap Cam
Friday 2/24/23 was severe clear here in the Northwet. We had just come off a week of wild, windy, blustery weather and cold...
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Steve
- Feb 15
- 8 min
RV-8 and the Day of the Clouds
Saturday 2/11/23 was supposed to be a little bit better day than it turned out to be. The forecast on Friday called for clearing about...
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Steve
- Feb 5
- 8 min
RV-8 and the 2023 Condition Inspection Pt. 1 (2/4/23 - 2/5/23)
Even though my Condition Inspection doesn't expire until the end of May, I am starting on it early. I got lucky last year and I didn't...
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Steve
- Feb 2
- 6 min
RV-8 and the Winter Weather Change
Saturday 1/28/23 was a transition day, weather wise. It had been cloudy and rainy all week, how unusual, but was going to clear up for...
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Steve
- Jan 21
- 6 min
RV-8 and the New Year's Richland Run
Friday 1/20/23 was too nice a day to spend at work. Particularly since there was yet another storm system coming in for the weekend it...
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Steve
- Aug 10, 2022
- 6 min
RV-8 and the Tale of the Toasty Coastal Trip
Saturday 8/6/22 was another toasty day in the Northwest, but not nearly as bad as last weekend. It is still hotter than I care for, but...
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Steve
- Jul 24, 2022
- 7 min
RV-8 and the Cloudy Weekend
Friday 7/22/22 was a cloudy day, at least to start with. It was part of the normal pattern of morning clouds and afternoon sun. The...
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Steve
- Jun 26, 2022
- 7 min
RV-8 and the AV Mag Installation
6/10/22 - A few months ago, when I was doing my Condition Inspection, I sent my AV-30E back to uAvionix to have the internal magnetometer...
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Steve
- Apr 24, 2022
- 17 min
RV-8 and the 2022 Condition Inspection
3/12/22 and 3/13/22 - It is once again that time of year, time to take the airplane out of service and do the annual inspection. ...
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Steve
- Nov 28, 2021
- 2 min
RV-8 and the Blown Flash Tube
11/25/21 - When I flew on Sunday I noticed that my right strobe was out. Since the airplane was built mostly in the last century, it has...
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Steve
- Nov 27, 2021
- 4 min
RV-8 and the Rusty Push-Pull Tube
11/27/21 - The only delayed discrepancy I had from last year's condition inspection was some minor rust on the bottom aft ends of both...
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Steve
- Nov 27, 2021
- 3 min
RV-8 and the 2021 Thanksgiving Week Part 3
Wednesday 11/24/21 was always a big question mark. It was the only day of the week that had any real chance to be flyable and give us...
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Steve
- Nov 25, 2021
- 3 min
RV-8 and the Thanksgiving 2021 Week Part 1
Saturday 11/20/21 was the best day we have seen in a while. There were still a lot of clouds around, but it wasn't windy and it wasn't...
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Steve
- Nov 25, 2021
- 5 min
RV-8 and the 2021 Thanksgiving Week Part 2
Sunday 11/21/21 was clearer than Saturday and the sky seemed to be putting on quite a light show, but as I soon found out, it was not...
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Steve
- Aug 29, 2021
- 3 min
RV-8 and the "At last, a Nice Day" Flight
Saturday August 28th 2021 was the first decent flying day I've had in 4 weeks. The last time I flew was July 31st. If it wasn't...
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Steve
- Jun 26, 2021
- 4 min
RV-8 and the Better than Normal Weekend
Thursday 6/17/21 was a nearly perfect day in the Northwest. Clear and a million, not too windy, not cold, not hot. It was one of those...
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Steve
- Jun 13, 2021
- 3 min
RV-8 and the "Hey, I didn't know I was going to fly today" Flight
Saturday 6/12/21 turned out to be better than expected. I hadn't been planning on flying at all. All week the forecast had been calling...
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Steve
- May 30, 2021
- 4 min
RV-8 and the Crater Lake
Saturday 5/29/21 turned out to be almost exactly as forecast, except maybe a little better. How often does that happen? Thursday night...
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