John, from Texas (I think), leaves the following:
Here's some pictures of my new Venture
60. One picture has a close up of the modification I made just behind the
canopy so I had a good place to bond the monocoat to. This allowed me to
glue the rear of the canopy right to the canopy bulkhead and still have a good
bonding area for the monocoat. Hope this makes sense.
I now have 4 flights on my plane. It
needed some trimming but I had a good test pilot who assessed the trim it
needed, landed, did some mechanical trimming and then back in the air. Really
flew good then.
When my turn came, the engine quit on final
and that airplane just glides and glides. I ran out of runway and almost
glided off the field---but I didn't and just made a nice landing in the
grass.
I have the bottom of the wing configured for
floats which I'll get to try out in April at the San Antonio Float Fly.
The strut attachments are the regular strut attachment and then the other strut
attaches to the underside of the wing about midway. It should work out
well since I did follow the basic rules for positioning floats on a plane. I am using a 2 cycle .60 (GMS 61A)
ringed engine and that's plenty of power which is good for the float
configuration. That's all.
That's great stuff, John! Lots of photos,
good work on the close-up shots. Thanks.
Wow, a lot of photos. But just look at the field, too - pretty good
digs for a pretty good plane.