Getting rolling again.....
In late August I successfully convinced my wife that we should buy a 172 that was for sale locally. She offered little resistance so I took advantage of a good situation (don’t hate me for picking up a spam can, it was a good deal though in need of an annual requiring a bit of work, and now I can fly AND build) A local A&P supervised me while I worked through the squawks, and got it going again in early October. Been flying the heck out of it. Finally getting back to work on the RV-8, finishing up wiring and putting holes in the panel for the future goodies that belong there. No RVating, but wrench turning on the RV, which is almost as good. Plus took the 172 to D25 (Manitowish Waters, WI), and then down the road, vi a friend who lives there and his pickup truck, to Little Bohemia Lodge, Dillinger got in a shootout there with the FBI some 80 years or so ago. There are still bullet holes in the walls, a lot of them, probably hundreds. I’d recommend it to anyone within an afternoons’ flight.