Today I used my grandsons, Cameron and Kaleb
to help me move the airplane to the Tooele airport for the first flight. When we arrived at the airport we saw the
Memphis Bell take-off and head east. The
Memphis Bell has been at South Valley Regional all weekend giving rides and
tours. It was fun to see it flying
overhead yesterday. Before moving the
airplane I started the engine and increased the idle speed from 1100 RPMs to
about 1500 RPMs. I had the boys sit in
the cockpit while I adjusted the carb.
We then removed the wings and loaded the fuselage
on the trailer. John McDonald, the CFI
who helped me with my private license and is in a hangar down the way from me
stopped by. He said, “you are getting
pretty good at removing the wings.” I
answered, “yes I am.”
After leaving the fuselage at the Tooele
Airport we returned to South Valley Regional for the wings. It was a long trip
back to Tooele, but we finally got there and installed the wings. While we were there Tom Driscoll flew
in. He came to see how we were
doing. It was a little windy, but Tom
made a few touch and goes while he was waiting for us to arrive on the
scene. He has a sweet airplane.
We tied the airplane down and I locked the
canopy and off we went. I am planning to
go out tomorrow and do the taxi testing and wait for low or calm winds for the
first flight.
