No Oops on Sunday, Vera took this picture of the Clematis before we went to church, visited for a little while afterwards and went home. I did a little work on the quad and got the Sopwith down from the ceiling. I want to fly it next week and had to put the carburetor back on. I also made up a new exhaust pipe as the old one looked a little tacky!
No Oops on Monday either, I had two appointments at Kaiser, one with a new doctor, my old one left Kaiser. After the first appointment and stopping at the lab for a blood test, we made a quick run to Fred Meyer for my favorite breakfast cereal. We were back in plenty of time for my dental cleaning. We stopped at Safeway on the way home and of course left the list in the car. We did manage to remember one item from it before we left.
I brought the Sopwith outside to test run the engine after we got home. That did not go well, I could not get the engine to draw fuel. After much messing around I gave up and pulled the carburetor back off and decided it needed one diaphragm that was not included in the kit.
Tuesday we went to Toledo for some flying. It was overcast for a while but cleared off later.
Barry stopped by about noon, he had been to PDX and dropped off Mona for a flight to her sister's. I got to show him how well the MXS flies and made a flight on the Convergence before he left.
Vera spotted this Sundog not long after Barry left. After reading up on them, I guess they are fairly rare.
OK, here is the first oops, I did a Blender, which starts with a vertical diving left roll that changes into a left inverted spin, power is added and the spin goes flat. There are a lot of negative G's, the battery came lose and unplugged. From then on I was just a spectator as is did an inverted spin to the ground. The damage was a lot less than I expected, most of it done by the lose battery when it hit the ground. I had the same thing happen a couple of years ago with my Sukhoi SU-31 except that time the battery took the canopy with it as it flew out. It was months before the battery was found. The plane wasn't hurt too bad that time either. The next oops was with the Cub, it turned on takeoff and headed off the runway, I should have throttled down to try again but I gave it full throttle and tried to takeoff. It snap rolled and wrinkled up one wing tip and one stabilizer a little. They will be easy fixes. The final oops today was that I had set the SE-5 on the counter of the motor home and it rolled off on the way home breaking a servo horn and stripping the gears in one servo, another easy fix. Regardless of the oops, I had a fun day.
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