Bringing a close to an eight-year build, Bill Bailey’s beautiful  RV-7A took to the skies today, piloted by one of the best RV test pilots around — the venerable Billy Waters.  Billy cleared the runway  at 3:35PM and put the new Bailey RV-7a through its paces for about an hour, remaining in the general area of 9A1. According to Billy, the aircraft flew very well with no problems.   Congratulations to Bill on a great build!

Bill and Billy confer just prior to the flight

Pilot Billy Waters breaks ground after a short ground roll

N948WD in a beautiful January sky