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Remembering St. Patrick’s Day 2016 at NASTAR
On Thursday March 17th 2016, pilots Christopher Glos and David LeFrancois participated in a University of Texas Medical Branch led Commercial Spaceflight Passenger Training Study at The NASTAR Center. They experienced simulated suborbital spaceflights using NASTAR’s high-performance centrifuge-based simulator. This simulator generated high onset-offset, sustained acceleration (“G”) forces similar to those experienced in commercial spacecraft. Here is …
Cozy Experimental Aircraft Update – March 11, 2019
Used the Dremel tool to trim the edges around the NACA scoop and landing gear bulkheads then continued sanding.
Cozy Experimental Aircraft Update – March 10, 2019
Now that the bottom of the fuselage has cured, I removed the peel ply from the sides and from around the landing brake. Used a dremel tool to trim around bulkhead F22 and then sanded.
Citabria Update – March 9, 2019
It was a sunny afternoon at CYPQ with the temperature up to 1 deg C so we wanted to get out to the Rice Lake practice area with the Citabria and fly off some of the winter cobwebs. Unfortunately we had some radio transmission problems after takeoff so we cut the flight short to get …