Just a bit of flying..

Did a little flying on Saturday morning. The winds have been blowing like crazy here the last week or so. I was going to meet Josh, a KU journalism major, who took some air-to-air photo's a couple of months ago around 9. We got to the airport and there was a big crowd. The local IAC group was there to do some practive aerobatics and stuff. Al Stuber was there in his RV-6A and Matt Burch was on his way down from Lawrence to get a ride. Al and I went up for a few minutes in my bird. We headed back where I picked up Matt for a ride and Al launched right behind us in his RV-6A with Josh in the passenger seat. We were really getting tossed around, so we headed up to 5k where it smoothed out. Al did some maneuvering around us so Josh could get some shots. We headed back and I put the plane away for the afternoon.. it was just too rough to do any pleasure flying.

Later in the day I went back out to the airport and changed the oil/filter. I also made up a rudder gust luck with a piece of 3/16" rod. The rudder horn already had a hole in it where I think the tailwheel chaing would attach if you had a tail dragger, so I just drilled a hole in the rudder stop angle and bent the rod in a U shape. It works really good and it weighs almost nothing. I'll need to attach a "remove before flight" flag on it.