About 35 miles east of Monroe, WA along US Highway 2 (The Stevens Pass Highway) is the town of Skykomish with a grass strip. 3 miles west of Skykomish State Airport === 2 miles west of Skykomish State Airport 1 mile west of Skykomish State Airport
Hmmm, where should we fly today? Funky clouds to the south. Grey skies to the east. Mostly blue skies to the north and west. Let's go northwest! === Cle Elum Lake Easton State ESW Airport Easton State Airport (viewed from the north) ") Snoqualmie Falls and Mount Si Snoqualmie and North Bend, WA Snoq...
Santa Claus was good to N11018 this year and delivered a new (actually a lowtime) B&C Specialties BC3201 starter that was picked up from a fellow pilot who ran it on his RV4 for 42 hours. As all airplane maintenance/upgrade tasks go, <strong<emnothing is ever simple</em</strong and installing this s...
Happy New Year, everyone. The Tailwind isn't back in the air yet so no new videos or photos to share. To get myself motivated to have 11018 flying soon, I have resolved to fly her 150 hours this year which is roughly three hours per week. I think that's doable. The biggest obstacle is the expense of...
There's a funflying aircraft that's occasionally seen in the wild blue, and once spotted, it's immediately recognized for its missing cockpit. It's called a Breezy. The only thing that separates N11018 from "Breezy" status is the fact that it has a cockpit. Because of this, it can never be referred...
The baggage compartment shelf on N11018 was a fragile piece of 1/4" plywood at the onset of osteoperosis. Through normal flying and landings and incidental vibrations, it would often slide forward about 1/4" so the back side would no longer be sitting on the main support channel which would cause th...