Here I am - finally home for a few hours. Ill send out this note for all the KRrs. Sun N Fun was great. I went down to William Wynnes a couple days before so that I could test fly the Stitts Skycoupe with Corvair TURBO conversion. Everything checked out okay so Gary (the owner) flew the Skycoupe to Lakeland on the 11th and I flew chase in the KR...well, more like ring around the rosie (ha ha) The Stits does 90 and the KR 165..so I flew lots of circles, but it was fun. We tied up the planes and then hitched a ride back in a 172. We drove the campers out and showed up Tue morning and preped and got ready for a busy day. Look at FLYCORVAIR.com for pics. We took a 601 firewall forward package, the 601 and lots of parts. I spent most of my time those days on the flight line showing the KR - the TURBO Skycouple and answering a multitude of questions. On Friday I left before the airshow and flew home to Valdosta GA to pick up Elaine (8 year old daughter) and flew back by 630 pm after the show had finished. She really enjoyed the weekend there. There were activities for kids. She learned about meterology, made clouds, made tornadoes, learned how to make wooden ribs (she collected 11 from other kids to start her own triplane). It was a good learning experience for her. One Saturday I recieved a notice to appear at the award ceremony and N41768 received Best All Wood Aircraft! It was icing on the cake. On Sunday I was approached by the Air Force ground crew asking that I fly some oil samples to the coast for analysis and I said sure - they were paying the fuel - so Elaine and I ran them to Titusville and got back at dark. Monday, the final day of the show, Elaine and I got up and saw Glacier Girl - P38 - takeoff and head home. The topper was watching a formation of four aircraft - a P51 in lead, a Saber jet, a F-4 Phantom, and a F16 perform low passes over the crowd. WOW! It was a great weekend. I flew the Kr home on Monday and got Elaine dropped off for school and then headed back to Williams in Edgewater FL. Today I got a ride back to Lakeland in the 172 and was able to ferry the Skycoupe back. I much prefer the 180mph Kr to the 100 mph Skycoupe. Back at Williams I worked on my KR a bit and a few other projects. Updates on N41768 will be coming later. I left Williams at 5:55 this afternoon and landed at 7:02 pm in Valdosta. The math on that......YYYYYEEEEEHHHHHAAAAAWWWWW!
It has been one fine week.. N41768 152 hours and loving it! Bill