Cincinnati Flyin 2010

Velocity squadron on alert

For all of the folks who could not make it to our first (annual?) Velocity Midwest Cincinnati Fly-in. This was a pretty informal little canard gathering based around Terry Miles passing through town for his cross-county trip to California. In honor of his stop we invited all of our local canard builders and fliers to Warren County Airport (our home field) for free breakfast and camaraderie. We had a pretty good turnout, with 4 Velocitys and Ray's Varieze. Here are some pictures. Linda and our staff photographer Al Wolfson will be sending high resolution pictures shortly.

Jerry, Bob and I had been working all week getting Victor Fox as close to flight status as possible, and at a minimum picture worthy. By Friday she was ready for her close-up, but thunderstorms were threatening, so Terry launched early to beat them in. We watched Flight Aware to follow his progress.

Terry touched down well ahead of the storms, happily, and we buttoned up Rocinate in Bob and Jerry's hangar and he gave us the tour of his airplane complete with Hangar 18 modifications.

Jousting at windmills comes to mind when you're staring headlong into a sweet Aerocomposites prop. Here Bob is checking out the panel.

Terry has a wonderful airplane and we spent over an hour just learning about all of the neat touches that he's included on her, from the custom side-extending-control-handle for transitioning pilots, to the screwless doghouse cover, and the wing-root oil cooler.

I have to say, though, that one of my favorite shots is twin Velocity storage. There's something magically about having several of these airplanes together, and having a deuce in our hangar was awesome.