George flew out and back to Elk River in his fast Astra (similar to a QuickR) to get Henry's spare fuel pump. Here's the clever way he attached it to his standard duct tape roll holder in his cockpit.
The winds were strong out of the Northwest. We had thought about flying up...gap between the Charizzo and Chuska Mtns. I had heard about an arch back here and wanted to take the o...
We steadily climbed out of the valley to reach the top of the 12,500 ft mountain north of Creede, Garita Peak. From there we followed a high mountain ridge to the east.
This is a view back to the northwest to Garita Peak and the large park below the mountain.
At this point the valley forked in three directions. Which one to fol...h up here and since we really didn’t know where we were heading, we backed off and retreated back to Rio Grande Reservoir. ...
Another view of the lave tube "bridge". Supposedly, there is all sorts of lost outlaw treasure hidden in these nearly inaccessable tubes and caves out in the Malpais. I never imagined these bridges existed. I definitely want to come back and visit on foot some day.
After leaving Mexican Mountain Airstrip, we headed for the Mineral Canyon Airstrip to check our our wings, then fly upstream along the Green River with the sun at our back. Here I am crossing over the edge and diving down into Mineral Canyon
We continued west past El Morro National Monument and looked down on the partially e..."Inscription Rock" which has ornate carvings of early Spanish explorers dating back to the 1605. ...
Here my first design had the fuel pressure regulator up top above the clutch hous...r 50 psi. My electric fuel pump puts out 90 psi coming off the tank with a feed back to the tack to get rid of the...
We landed at Mineral Canyon to look over the wings (now frost free) and to clean a smudge of...running before takeoff because I would have captured on vide...It took a minute to disapate.
Here is a link to a vide...