{"id":1354,"date":"2014-01-01T04:14:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T04:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2014-01-03T23:56:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T23:56:17","slug":"more-legals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/?p=1354","title":{"rendered":"More legals."},"content":{"rendered":"

3.5 hours.<\/p>\n

Today’s big story was attaching the N number.<\/p>\n

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Behold my legalness.<\/p>\n

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And yay, more legalness. \u00a0This gets covered up with masking tape until it’s airworthy. \u00a0No sense giving the tax man a foot in the door before it’s necessary.<\/p>\n

After this, I went for a quick flight with Don in his RV6A. \u00a0 Don’s between medicals at the moment, and I’m in need of RV hours, so we both get to fly if we’re both at the airport at the same time. \u00a0Today I flew us over to Santa Paula to get some fuel. \u00a0Apparently, I don’t suck at flying the 6A. \u00a0But today was an optimum day for flying, with clear skies and smooth air, so that helped.<\/p>\n

After that, I replaced the silicone fuel line I was using for the fuel pump overflow connector and replaced it with some real 5\/16″ tubing and secured it with hose clamps. \u00a0 Then I dismounted the spinner and empennage fairing so I could bring them home to paint them. \u00a0Or at least shoot a half-assed covering of primer on them.<\/p>\n

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I’m getting tired of the pink cowl and the purple spinner, so even though it might be kind of a pain to deal with later, I decided to spray the cowl down with Krylon Olive, which is pretty close to the same color as the dropship in James Cameron’s “Aliens.” \u00a0It’s flat. \u00a0It’s easy. \u00a0 And when I get around to spending a hundred hours or so touching up and filling in the cowl, maybe I’ll do something different. \u00a0 Or it’ll go to the paint shop and it’ll be somebody else’s problem.<\/p>\n

The result you see here is before the paint’s actually dry, which accounts for some of the streaks. \u00a0But when it’s done it’ll be a nice, uniform olive drab.<\/p>\n

Maybe I’ll do the spinner bright red. \u00a0Or black with a twisting white stripe. \u00a0Although, the metallic purple actually looks good with this color green, so maybe I’ll leave it as is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

3.5 hours. Today’s big story was attaching the N number. Behold my legalness. And yay, more legalness. \u00a0This gets covered up with masking tape until it’s airworthy. \u00a0No sense giving the tax man a foot in the door before it’s necessary. After this, I went for a quick flight with Don in his RV6A. \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1951,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/1951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}