May 24, 2014 - Maintenance Check |
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The saga continues. This morning the A&P/IA installed the piston and cylinder, then we put back all the other stuff back on: Exhaust pipes, air intake tubes, CHT and EGT probes, spark plugs, baffling. It was actually pretty interesting; I learned a lot. And as we all know, in aviation, you can not know too much. Ignorance is not bliss. I started up the engine and eveything looked good. I did a run-up; all was good. So there was nothing to do but take the RV for a maintenace test flight. Since it had new rings, I had to break the cylinder in, which is nothing more than running the engine hard for a few hours. I flew around the Eastern Shore at 4,000 feet for a couple of hours at 2400/2400. Which isn't a whole lot different from the way I usually fly it. I was over Delaware near Summit Airport when I saw this huge warehouse building. I know Amazon has a distribution center over there; I'm guessing this is it. It is massive. |
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I'm guessing all these houses belong to the people who work at the Amazon distro center.
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Bridges over the eastern end of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. | ||||||
Looking west down the canal. You can see where it joins the top of the Chesapeake Bay.
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Many sailboats in the Miles River near St. Michaels. | ||||||
A private grass strip on St. Michaels Island. | ||||||