Color....On!

 

Sheryl and I flew commercial down to DFW on June 4th to pick up my baby. We grabbed a morning flight, met Doug Reeves at Hard Eight for lunch, and then drove out to the airport with Sheryl's daughter who lives in the area.

 

I gotta say, as the car approached the plane on the ramp in front of GLO's hangar, I let out a whoop and a holler (as unbeknownst to me, Sheryl video recorded)! It was a pretty surreal moment to not only see my plane with color, but also see the paint scheme that Jonathan (Plane Schemers) and I worked so hard on. Almost brought tears to my eyes...definitely one of those great moments of a build that you wont ever forget, right up there with first flight.

 

 

Doug Reeves (VAF) shot a collection of shots (as shown here) before I arrived and showcased it on the VAF front page on Thursday, June 5th. He said that out of the 20 or so planes he has seen come out of GLO...this was one of the nicest. Definitely a nice compliment from a guy that would know. Had a nice lunch conversation with Doug, really enjoyed chatting with him about airplanes....he's definitely one of the good guys in this hobby.

 

Our DeLorme PLB track on the return flight....mostly uneventful. It was HOT in Dallas when we took off about 2pm....96 degs! So we cooked for the first part of the flight...took us awhile to cool down, even at altitude. As we approached Denver, the temps cooled and we dodged some thunderstorms on the way into BJC. The only other thing to mention was my cowl oil door popping open when I showed Sheryl a 3-G turn. It never did that before paint...need to look into the cause of that. We had to land to shut it...but otherwise no big deal in flight.

 

A photo enhanced shot of Sheryl and I in front of the new paint job (I'm learning the plane does photograph well...) And although, I promise it wasn't planned...I sure was color coordinated wasn't I?

 

This shot is one of my favorites that Doug took.

I still have a few last minute details to tidy up the interior, remember I've been under huge self imposed schedule constraints for a few months now...its not quite finished. But this picture gives you a pretty good idea how it turned out.

 

Not sure if I ever posted about this...I added this wingtip storage compartment at the last minute. It looks nice in this pic and my canopy cover fits perfectly in it, but it bulges in flight and it needs some tweaking (stiffening or another latch) to get it fixed up.