Another lovely day

The weather forecast was for a cloudy day with occasional sunny breaks and a high of about 12 degrees Celsius. However, we had sunshine all day and a high of around 16 degrees and with very little wind, it would have been a good day to go flying.

But I couldn’t do that because the Weedhopper’s new ASI arrived today, as the seller said it might and I wanted to go over and fit it into 28AAD’s panel so I could finally call the aircraft finished. Here’s a shot of the ASI just after I’d unpacked it.

When I packed up the car to go across to Malbec I also put all of the materials that I’ve had ready by the door for some time so I could also do the Savannah’s oil and plug change if I had enough time. That didn’t happen however, because once I’d fitted 28AAD’s new ASI I thought that it would be a good idea to run its and the X-Air’s engines to warm them up and give their batteries a bit of a charge.

Here are a couple of shots of two of my ‘fleet’ after I’d got 77ASY and 28AAD out of the hangar where they’re both being stored

And here’s a shot of the Weedhopper’s now completed panel. I think that it’s turned out very well.

As well as giving 28AAD’s engine a run I also gave it a taxi to the end of the runway and back again. It (and the X-Air also, I’m glad to say) started very easily with no messing around and there was plenty of power on tap when I opened its throttle a couple of times coming back up the slope to the top of the runway.

My plan is to do 77ASY’s oil and plug change tomorrow as it looks as though it could be another fine day. If so, I might also be able to get a short flight in in the Savannah during the afternoon. It’ll be nice to get the Weedhopper’s wings on so I can have a flight in that soon as well.