Ron Lendon's Blog – June 2012 Archive (2)

N601LT First Flight

This morning, Anne and I drove to the airport and met three friends at 7am for the first flight. Two of the friends are AP and the other is the Tech Consoler and photographer. The APs smoked over the airplane as well as me doing a very through pre-flight.



The first flight only lasted 20 minutes in the air, but that was enough to get things sorted out and land without incident.  Then it was off to breakfast, then home to sleep.  I didn't sleep all that well last night.  Later that… Continue

Added by Ron Lendon on June 30, 2012 at 10:37pm — 6 Comments

It's an Airplane!

Hey gang,



Today the DAR pronounced N601LT an Airworthy Airplane.  Tomorrow the wings come off to move it all up to the larger airport KPHN for the long high speed taxi tests and first five hours of flight testing.



Then I will fly it back to my home base of 57D to finish up the Phase 1 testing.  



This is my only job till July 9th so pray for good weather for me.



Ron Lendon

Detroit, MI…

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Added by Ron Lendon on June 26, 2012 at 10:23pm — 9 Comments

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