A Sunday Evening at Lenhardt

The weather has been cold, windy and rainy this weekend. I have not gotten a flight in at all. I enjoy weather watching, waiting for that window to open. This is what I saw while contemplating "go" or "no go". A step out the hangar door shows me some promise. Although, I don't care for the dark clouds.


The windsock doesn't look too bad, winds out of the west at about 5 to 8 knots.


A glance down runway 20, a squall to the south and dark clouds.


Looking down runway 02, shear beauty!

(I sent Jack Lenhardt these same pictures and this was his response concerning the photo above: "This is what I pictured 50 years ago that the airport could look like. I am thinking it may be a good cover for the next printing of my book if that's OK with you. Thank you, Becky")

I choose "no go" and to stay and enjoy my surroundings.


So, back in the hangar I find Bruce testing and installing the navigational lights on the wing tips of our RV-10. The right wing tip needs to have green lights and the left needs to be red. I think we will be visible to the space station with how bright they are.


The nav lights that we chose are made up of a bunch of small LED bulbs. Usually there is just one small bulb in the wingtip that doesn't throw light very far.


The area that houses the light fixture is all aluminum so that the light reflects radially.


During the annual check of our Cessna 172 we decided to replace the original (1978) pressed vinyl interior panels with upholstery. Being the only female in the group I got to choose the fabric. What you see on the door is black vinyl and a printed fabric that pretty much matches all, and I mean all, the different beige's in the cockpit. There must be 6 shades in various places.


Later this week I will update our burgeoning greenhouses. I sure wish the weather would warm up so I could put the plants into the ground.