November 4, 2006 - Red Dragon Pre-Heater
It was a beautiful day this Saturday.  Perfect flying weather.  And there was a fly-in  at Campbell Field -- a grass Strip on the southern end of the Eastern Shore.  I was supposed to meet the Trunk Monkeys -- a bunch of Citabria drivers -- at Smyrna, Delaware, then fly down as a group to the fly-in.  Headed out to the airport, pre-heated and fueled the Citabria, and then noticed I had a fuel leak around the fuel gauge, which is at the right wing root.  I tried tightening the gauge but it was no go.

So I missed a prime flying day.  On the way home from the airport, I stopped at Harbor Freight and bought some stuff to make a cart for the Red Dragon pre-heater I had bought off E-Bay.  It took me a couple of hours to make the below cart.  I lit up the Red Dragon for the first time.  It worked great.  Pre-heating the Citabria (and RV-7 in the future) engines will be a piece of cake. 

There must have been a thousand black birds that swooped down and landed in our backyard.  Never seen anything like it. 
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