Congratulations to Captain John on his first flight!

Post by **bullojm1** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 8:38 am

Captain John had his first flight of his RV-7 yesterday! Congrats!

The RV Grin!

CJ, I'm a bit worried about your attire here....you've been hanging out with the Canadiens too much - you're wearing 2/3 of a Canadian Tuxedo!

aparchment · Post by **aparchment** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 9:14 am

Congratulations brotha!

Really happy for you.

Antony

plbarrett2004 · Post by **plbarrett2004** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 11:12 am

Congratulations!!!!

cjensen · Post by **cjensen** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 11:53 am

Saweet!!!! So happy for you CEEJAY! Big time RV grins for ya!

stevewiz · Post by **stevewiz** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 12:19 pm

Congrats to you. Very exciting I'm sure.

joe plihal · Post by **joe plihal** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 4:07 pm

Very Nice!!! Congratulations!!!

Vlad · Post by **Vlad** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 5:46 pm

Now I know why Machineman was landing at Plymouth on Sunday afternoon. I happened to be in the air in the vicinity of Boston. Congratulations Captain!

Here is the brief history of the build

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leffler · Post by **leffler** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 7:20 am

Congrats!

It's certainly an ego boost to fly an aircraft that you built.

Enjoy!

bob

Post by **Spike** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 11:04 am

Wow this is ridiculously awesome.

Congrats CJ!! It has been awesome to walk with you through this journey. You are tenacious!

painless · Post by **painless** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 12:20 pm

How awesome is that??? Wicked awesome! Way to go CJ!

Brantel · Post by **Brantel** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 1:58 pm

Awesome CJ! Great job!

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 1:59 pm

Thanks guys!

It has been quite a journey.

I have some minor squawks like dialing back my prop governor and trimming the #2 cylinder head baffle. I also have a heavy left wing that I need to deal with.

Getting the radios to work as I want will take some saddle time. I need to get the sidetones at the same volume and tune out some occasional interference.

The Baja Designs landing lights are incredible! Thanks for the tip Mikey!

VPX works REMARKABLY WELL!!! Chad, that is an endorsement.

The Mattituck/Eci engine is GREAT!

Thanks to all of you and the people here at my airport that helped me through the process like Billy and Speedpants!

The real excitement is only beginning!

CJ

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 2:02 pm

As my CFII always said as we were cleaning up the airplane and making our way off the runway:

That is stuck to the inside of my tip up canopy to look at at each shut down.

CJ

Post by **bullojm1** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 2:45 pm

captain_john wrote: That is stuck to the inside of my tip up canopy to look at at each shut down.

CJ - It appears as if the sticker isn't applied straight and level. Were you drinking when you applied it???

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 6:00 pm

TOTALLY!

In fact I was surrounded by drunks! Wait... you were one of them!

CJ

Joe Parish · Post by **Joe Parish** » Tue Oct 07, 2014 8:18 pm

Contrast CJ!!!

Enjoy all your hard work. Keep us posted on phase one.

bruceh · Post by **bruceh** » Wed Oct 08, 2014 12:14 pm

Congrats, and enjoy the flying!

bruceh · Post by **bruceh** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 11:01 pm

http://www.eaa.org/en/eaa/eaa-news-and- ... for-safety

How cool is that?

speedpants · Post by **speedpants** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 5:26 am

Great....that should swell his head just big enough for the canopy not to close!

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 12:07 pm

Lol...

Speedpants, your noggin barely fit as it is!

...and that was witout a headset on!

CJ

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Congratulations to Captain John on his first flight!

Congratulations to Captain John on his first flight!

Woo Hoo!

And you get to have company along for the Phase 1?