{"id":12710,"date":"2017-02-10T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12710"},"modified":"2017-02-10T20:49:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T20:49:15","slug":"another-lovely-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/another-lovely-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Another lovely day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

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And here’s a shot of the Weedhopper’s now completed panel. I think that it’s turned out very well.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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