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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,...
Steve
Feb 25, 20243 min read


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...
Steve
Feb 4, 20245 min read


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...
Steve
Nov 5, 202311 min read


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...
Steve
Aug 20, 20237 min read


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...
Steve
Aug 13, 20235 min read


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...
Steve
Aug 6, 20238 min read


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...
Steve
Jul 31, 20236 min read


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...
Steve
Jul 24, 20239 min read


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....
Steve
Jul 17, 20235 min read


RV-8 and the Partly Cloudy Forks Run
Sitting on the ramp at Forks with the Forks Timber Museum in the background. After the mini-heat wave we had over the Fourth of July...
Steve
Jul 9, 20235 min read


RV-8 and the Tillamook Air Museum
Saturday 7/1/23 was forecast to be, and ended up being, a rather nice day. The sky was clear, though it was a bit windy, but not...
Steve
Jul 3, 20237 min read


RV-8 and the Scappoose Trip
Saturday 6/24/23 was a rather typical early summer day in the Northwest. That means, clouds in the morning and sun in the afternoon. ...
Steve
Jun 26, 20234 min read


RV-8 and the Bonehead Move
Friday 6/16/23 was supposed to be a cloudy / rainy day. I wanted to take the day off, even though I didn't think I would be able to fly,...
Steve
Jun 18, 202311 min read


RV-8 and the Missed Museum Mission
Saturday 6/3/23 was one of the few nearly perfect days we get around here, the kind where it isn't raining, it isn't too cloudy, it isn't...
Steve
Jun 5, 20234 min read


RV-8 and the 2023 Condition Inspection Pt. 4
The weekend of 4/8/23 - 4/9/23 saw me getting a lot closer to being finished. When I left off last weekend all I had left to do was to...
Steve
Apr 9, 20236 min read


RV-8 and the 2023 Condition Inspection Pt. 3
The condition inspection continues 4/1/23 and 4/2/23. First thing Saturday I wanted to get the air filter out and get it cleaned so it...
Steve
Apr 8, 20233 min read


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...
Steve
Mar 27, 20236 min read


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...
Steve
Mar 20, 20239 min read


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...
Steve
Feb 26, 20238 min read


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...
Steve
Feb 15, 20238 min read
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