I'm truly fortunate to have Andrea in my life.  We continue to share the most wonderful experiences.  Here she is pre-flighting ( and / or posing with coffee ) 'ol  96Q, our favorite flying machine.

This is a shot from our balloon ride 3/22/03 in North Phoenix.  It was her birthday present to me for my 36th.

Here are two versions of the same video clip a friend John Bullock and I took 3/26/03 up the Salt River Lakes.  John gets credit for doing a fine job putting our footage and pictures together.  If you're on a low bandwidth pipe such as a dial-in connection you may want to right-click on the link and download the video to your hard drive to play it.

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Here is a picture of Apache Lake from my trip with John.

 

Here are some pics from Andrea's Private Pilot solo flight:

She was in a more relaxed mood after the flight.

Andrea & Doug (her astute flight instructor) after her Private Pilot solo 4/30/2003.

Here's a picture Andrea took of our approach into Sedona 5/11/2004.

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The airport is actually on a mesa and there is 93' difference between the ends.

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9/3/2004

Andrea and I went to Portland for a wedding this weekend.  Right when we got there, we rented a car and drove to Van's and got a ride in the RV-7A.

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There are no words to describe the way this airplane flies.  I realize I've been flying in a glorified beer can now.  Adverse yaw was nearly nil. Out of habbit I applyied rudder and positive elevator in a 30 degree bank turn.  Both were unnecessary with this airplane but necessary in the Archer..  I now understand why people rave about this airplane's handling characteristics.