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Figured out some tricks to making a hot tasty breakfast, even on a cold windy morning.

A hundred years ago this contraption set a new world record, stay aloft for over eight minutes... Raúl Pescara, Moulineaux France.

I have no idea if there is a practical aspect to this, but it sure looks cool! https://blog.foreflight.com/2024/02/01/voyager-announcement

I'll show you mine if you show me yours.

This was the weirdest problem I've had while flying. After well over a decade of aviating, I've had a handful of issues with airplanes, weather or other pilots. But I've never had something as small as a fly mess up the plane to the point of being a hazard. This is that flight and how we figured...

I've never heard of this. Amazingly cool!

I have had funding requests denied for project that were way more reasonable than this one...

This was a fun trip. Got some winter camping and cooking down before mud season starts.

We fly cross country from Chicago to central Texas to attend the Ranger Antique Fly-In, see some really cool planes and people, and make gyoza while camping at the airfield.

North Fox Island is a gem of a strip managed by the RAF. By going there during the week, I had the entire place to myself for a few days of camping and cooking. After making a last minute run to Beaver Island to get some forgotten chicken, made some chiken kabobs.

I spent most of the flight worried about whether I would be able to land due to the sun, but the deer ended up being the bigger hazard. Blueberry cobbler for breakfast was sweet and delicious. I don't know when humanity decided that it was ok to eat cake for breakfast (pancakes, waffles, coffee...

I've been hanging around this place a few days on my way to High Sierra. Absolutely beautiful.

Great to meet many of you at the fly-in. Here's the video I made... :-)

If it weren't for the NHTSA, we could still have cool cars like this one from 1922...

I think I need to do this...

Does anyone know of a cheap hangar I could use for a few weeks to a couple months beginning in mid October? I know the "cheap" part might be asking a lot, but the ideal situation would be someone with a hangar big enough for two, but only owns one. I don't need in and out privs. Just a back...