Building a Coot-A and other adventures in aviation
What did I do this past weekend? Here I am with Russ Milham, who was in the left seat flying my Yankee. He did a couple of touch and gos and then landed the third time. We then joined an American Yankee Association fly-in at the Spruce Goose Cafe.
Fellow Coot-builder, Doug, has posted this wonderful video of the late Peter Breinig building a Spencer AirCar in five minutes.
In the opening scene, Peter is looking through Private Pilot and finds an article titled, “Build Your Own Airplane.” But the airplane shown is not a homebuilt airplane at all. It is a 1971 American Aviation AA-1A (built a year after my AA-1 Yankee). On the other hand, the AA-1 series was developed by Jim Bede, and was originally to be a kit plane.
I had an aviation mission today. Namely, testing out a second-hand piece of avionics (a Narco NAV 121 VOR reciever W/CDI) that is going into the Traveler project. Today was a knock-out stunningly beautiful day here in the Pacific Northwest (on the heels of a nasty March), such that, 6 hours later, I still haven’t managed to wipe the smile off of my face.
Anyway, here is the video of the test: