May 24, 2014 - Maintenance Check

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.

   
I'm guessing all these houses belong to the people who work at the Amazon distro center.
   
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.
   
Many sailboats in the Miles River near St. Michaels.
   
A private grass strip on St. Michaels Island.
   
   
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