Plane and Pilot

MARCH 25, 2025

Although I havent spent much time around GB1s (except for drooling over them while they are on display and flying at airshows) I am always taken aback by how much larger the airplane appears to be in personparticularly, the tall, sweeping rudder that curves down to a sharp point with just enough ground clearance. Sounds good.

Knot 111

Knot Airplanes Runway Rudder 111

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

I filed IFR , mostly so that I could get the altitude I wanted without having to worry about cloud clearances, and so if some little squirt cumulus popped up, I could blast through it or just nick the side of it. Kentland has a 4,000-foot runway, east/west, with a crosswind straight out of the north.

Weather 80

Weather Runway Knot Rudder 80

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

I requested permission to land, and received a clearance to land “any runway, any direction, any time.” I chose runway 14 (the UGN crosswind runway) and the crash and resuce vehicles moved onto the adjacent taxiway. There was no one else on the taxiways or in the airspace. And she was not kidding.

Pilot 98

Pilot Descent Runway Crosswind 98

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

I filed IFR , mostly so that I could get the altitude I wanted without having to worry about cloud clearances, and so if some little squirt cumulus popped up, I could blast through it or just nick the side of it. Kentland has a 4,000-foot runway, east/west, with a crosswind straight out of the north.

Weather 52

Weather Runway Knot Rudder 52

Photographic Logbook

JULY 6, 2024

Long story short, when I received my clearance that evening, it was to my originally intended BELTS waypoint.) dove for pattern altitude, and managed the noise sensitive areas around the airport as best we could by entering the pattern on a midfield crosswind for runway 33. We cancelled IFR (but kept the squawk!),

Pilot 52

Pilot Flight Plan Air Traffic Control General Aviation 52

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

True, a slightly higher aspect ratio wing was desired, which in turn required a larger vertical tail and thus a little extra mass, but the size, approximately 20% larger than a Widgeon, was set. The Mallard—it’s a trike—has a tail stinger because it otherwise falls on its tail when loading.”

Airplanes 80

Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron 80

Photographic Logbook

JANUARY 25, 2025

Thaws, rain, snow, and strong crosswinds can temporarily close the airport. More vintage cred: a V-tailed Beechcraft Bonanza! Gilead and I, both trailing Ed, ran into dramatically lowering visibility and requested pop-up IFR clearances. Despite its acclaim, the ephemeral airport leads a finicky existence.

Runway 68

Runway Airplanes Threshold Approach 68