{"id":3428,"date":"2015-09-26T08:32:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T14:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=3428"},"modified":"2015-09-26T08:32:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T14:32:39","slug":"the-end-of-a-long-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/26\/the-end-of-a-long-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of a long journey…"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 5 of 7 in the series 16 - Flight Testing<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Yesterday, I arrived at my home field with the Velocity.\u00a0 Seven and a half years after making the first fiberglass layup.<\/p>\n

Weather was tricky as there were showers and clouds between Sebastian and Orlando that I had stay clear of (there is currently no weatherstripping and the plane is not certified for IFR).\u00a0 But once past Orlando is was a clear shot to Panama City.<\/p>\n

Two highlights were having Tampa approach pointing me out to a passing Delta flight (“Delta 123, you have a Velocity off your right at 6,500”). I couldn’t figure out why a 767 would be so low or why they never called my to tell me about the Delta flight. Then I noticed they were at about 18,000′.\u00a0 That was cool.<\/p>\n

Then I passed a Skylane like it was standing still. That was fun.<\/p>\n

Arriving at my home field it was empty.\u00a0 I figured Ann would be waiting for me so I gave her a little show.\u00a0 I did a low approach and overflew the runway.\u00a0 I had to pull the power way back because it was really bumpy.<\/p>\n

I had been wondering how visibly the flashing landing lights would show up. She said that she could see me coming for a long way off.<\/p>\n

Video of the low approach and landing (apologies for the portrait mode… what are you gonna do?).<\/p>\n

I’ve got some other posts that precede this one but I wanted to get this up ASAP.<\/p>\n

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This entry is part 5 of 7 in the series 16 - Flight Testing<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Yesterday, I arrived at my home field with the Velocity.\u00a0 Seven and a half years after making the first fiberglass layup. Weather was tricky as there were showers and clouds between Sebastian and Orlando that I had stay clear of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"series":[40],"class_list":["post-3428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-47","series-16-flight-testing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3430,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428\/revisions\/3430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3428"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}