I write about the past, present, and future of technology across three sites. imapenguin.com explores retro computing and programming fundamentals, milkcrunch.com covers modern software development and engineering culture, and evadot.com examines commercial spaceflight and the new space movement.
Posts
RSS- Measuring distances on opposite sides of the wings to make sure they are lined up using a digital tape measure with a laser on it. Was hoping for them to be “pretty close”, but exactly the same will do too :)
- Test fitting the tail. #myzenith750
- Feels weird to land in Millington. I was stationed here in 1993.
- Putting the wings on. Feels awesome. #myzenith750
- Headroom is a problem in almost every light airplane I fly. And I’m not even super tall.
- Where we’re going we don’t neeeed roads.
- Well Lowe’s is doing a few things right
- My Dad did close to 400 rivets today. #myzenith750
- I have “hired” help this morning. #myzenith750
- Calling approach into Beaufort for a 10 degree deviation for “a little weather” was a good call.
- Quiet afternoon with the best beer in America, a book and a pretty artist. Not too shabby. #makecheatdaycount
- Light morning. Only 420 holes before the sun came up. #myzenith750
- Flying a lighter plane today. Although most small planes are lighter than a P Baron.
- Cool airplane spotting for today: Piaggio 180
- Starting on the dreaded wing root skins. Trying to make aluminum go into shapes it really doesn’t want to go... #myzenith750
- It’s a hard-knock life...
- It’s time to make the airplane. #myzenith750
- In the early morning I put one of these in my coffee. I’m currently questioning why we have them next to each other in the pantry. For... reasons.
- Bill captured my approach in the rain from the right seat. I turned a much closer in base leg than usual to avoid the heavy rain just to the south of the airport. #tigerbaron
- Made it to Airventure with my favorite person. Only had to warm water in a coffee pot to bathe one time to get here. #campscholler