December 17, 2020
I drive a Tesla Model 3 Performance Edition and my wife a Tesla Model S. My car goes 0 to 60 in 3.5 seconds, which is […]
July 26, 2000
“The Speck of Incredible Speed” (July 2000) I recently test-flew the Lancair Columbia 300 at Oshkosh. First: My favorite part of aviation: The QUIET part. This […]
January 27, 2005
Cirrus How-To January 2005 Out of all my adventures, people keep asking for more CIRRUS adventures, and I admit that I have not been as good […]
February 23, 2007
This is the log of my final flight in Cirrus 8141Q. As great as the Cirrus SR-22 is, after a while, getting into that airplane starts […]
February 25, 2007
Lancair-school is pretty fun! My class poses in front of my new bird. The Lancair (oh… I am supposed to call them “Columbia Aircraft Manufacturing”) guys […]
February 26, 2007
OK so I finished my work for PFC (Sacramento), getting the X-Plane 8.60 FAA-approved version of X-Plane tweaked just right for them, and then it was […]
February 27, 2007
So, compared to the Cirrus SR-22, what is the Lancair Columbia 400 like? Well, as you preflight it, you see the Cirrus has a nice big, […]
June 26, 2007
OK so right after I got a Lancair Columbia-400, Cirrus came out with the SR-22 Turbo… a plane to match the Lancair in performance, while maybe […]
July 26, 2007
“The Only Way To Damage a Lancair Is To Leave It On The Ground So It Can’t Get Away” (July 2007) Why does God hate Lancairs? […]
January 26, 2008
OK so here is a quick follow-up for you! People have been asking about the Vette mods and the Lancair repairs, so here we go! Corvette: […]
May 3, 2010
“Avanti” (May 2010) Randy Witt with friends and family right after our Avanti flight: OK so X-Plane biz-manager Randy Witt knows a guy that flies his […]
March 26, 2011
I have been flying Columbia 400’s for a while, and they are great, but married with a baby on the way and the desire to travel […]
January 11, 2015
What if you took an 850-hp Pratt and Whitney PT-6a Turbine and put it on a 100% carbon-fiber airframe? What would happen? Well, this: A 5,000+ […]
February 23, 2015
This adventure is LONG, and maybe boring, but full of information! Many might be bored and should stop now, but anyone interested in experimental aviation construction […]
March 4, 2015
This is very PRELIM performance for N844X. This is a Lancair Evolution, with a (non-standard) PT-6-42 engine. The engine normally used in the Lancair Evolution has […]
March 23, 2015
Check out Xavion at www.Xavion.com if you do not know what it is. OK done? All right. So all of my Xavion testing so far in […]
May 9, 2015
OK so a number of times when I have been flying N844X I have been flying along (usually climbing) and heard a sudden BANG! It is […]
August 31, 2015
Everybody always asks, and nobody ever understands, how the propeller beta and reverse models work in X-Plane. So here we go. Everything I am about to […]
September 4, 2015
Lancairs and Teslas are two of my favorite things in the world. But you know the old thing about chocolate and peanut-butter: Combine them and they […]
June 14, 2016
OK plenty of stuff has gone wrong with my Evolution (N844X… Google it for pics), but the only way any of this can be WORTH IT […]
September 12, 2016
So people say that turbine engines, compared to recips, put out lot of power, but use more fuel. That’s sort of like saying that the Titanic […]
January 5, 2017
New flight-modeling stuff done recently for 11.00: Thanks to a few hundred hours of flight experience in my Lancair Evolution so far, I am really improving […]
October 7, 2017
OK I was off to Vermont on a business trip where a bunch of things would go wrong with the trip and here they are. Each […]
June 4, 2021
================================================================================ THIS REPORT ================================================================================ I have learned some things about how ice affects aircraft performance from studying the loss of N515DL, a Lancair Evolution recently lost […]