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RV-8 and the Time I Replaced the Nut Plate
A couple of weeks ago I noticed that the inside edges of my tires were getting pretty worn, so it was time to flip the tires on the...
Steve
Feb 86 min read
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RV-8 and A Tale of Two Harnesses
The first flight of JD was in February of 2001, making it almost 24 years old. For most of that time it has had harnesses made by...
Steve
Dec 21, 20246 min read
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RV-8 and the Chore Warrior
Saturday 12/7/24 was yet another wet and rainy day up here in the upper left hand quadrant of the country. While that is always...
Steve
Dec 7, 20246 min read
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RV-8 and the Thanksgiving 2024 Week
The fall of 2024 has been very cloudy and wet in the Pacific Northwet (not a typo). As a result, I only got to fly twice in October and...
Steve
Dec 4, 202410 min read
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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...
Steve
Jun 30, 20245 min read
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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...
Steve
May 25, 20246 min read
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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...
Steve
Apr 20, 20244 min read
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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...
Steve
Apr 20, 20242 min read
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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...
Steve
Apr 13, 20245 min read
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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...
Steve
Apr 9, 20244 min read
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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...
Steve
Mar 24, 20247 min read
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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...
Steve
Mar 22, 20243 min read
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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...
Steve
Mar 14, 20245 min read
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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...
Steve
Mar 10, 20243 min read
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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...
Steve
Mar 2, 20245 min read
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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