Isaac Shultz's Sonex Project

Mr John, our hanger neighbor allowed me to borrow his trailer. With the trailer secured, a long weekend, a parent to drive, and enough money earned, I am ready to set out on the most exciting road trip yet! The trip to pick up Sonex kit #1612!! Will keep Y'all posted as events unfold. Thank you so much to: Mr John Paul Shadwick Stan Whitfield Ron Sipple Ralph and Joyce Shultz Paul and Beth Duff Paul Hockin Nicholette Shultz Gordon Fern Anon Anon Jeannette Shultz Mike David Jonathan and Julia Wolfe Jon Palmstrom Laurie Burns Donna Mickel Dana Baker Mrs Nadine Eric Johnson Tammy Reap Hayes Jeff Shultz Brandon Lenart WP Maesh Michael Couillard Mr Anonymous Joe And Judy Green Mrs Brenda Mrs Cathy Paul and Vickie Laberge Judy and Roger Kemmerle

Part 2 For four months, the challenger dozed in its temporary home of Roosterville. We made the cold February drive up to Kansas City, over the ten hours of drive time we saw temperatures ranging from 75f(MS) to 28f(MO). Staging at a old friend's house, we schemed and plotted our plan of action. The course we came up with covered 2 full sectional maps , front and back! We were to go 0N0-LXT-EOS-H35-SUZ-CRT-VKS. I woke up early, and prepared my things, Pillow? check. Ipod? check. Blanket? check. Clean clothes? Well, you would like it better if I stretch the truth and say check. By and by, everyone else woke up. One excellent breakfast later, and my belly was full, but The morning was creeping along, wasting time. On the weather channel, we learned that it would not be a flying day. We were delayed. The next day, the weather had somewhat improved, at least to the point of being flyable. In a matter of hours we had woke up, gotten ready, and prepped ...

Yesterday I was presented with a birthday surprise.  I was at the sushi restaurant waiting for the skilled chefs to finish creating the heap of sushi we were to eat. My family and I were thinking hard about what we could possibly do for fun without phones. Suddenly Dad passed me his phone, open to an email, as I read it for the first time, a smile spread across my face. A member of the Sonex community had chosen to sell his Sonex kit, and offered it to me for a price within my budget.  All of my work had paid off, I was on the road to make my vision reality! I had long dreamed about it, but now it was happening. The current plan is to make the long drive to the kit in April. Before we leave, I will need to clear out a workshop in the garage. Once we make it to the kit location, we will need to carefully load up the parts, taking care to wrap the finished ones in plenty of blankets. I am truly thankful and abundantly appreciative o...

My First Real Crosscountry Flight Part 1 September 2015 First some background, My family was moving from Colorado to Mississippi. The Challenger II, the plane I am learning to fly in, needed to be moved to our new home. The flight would be over 1,000 miles, quite ambitious. I had only flown one Crosscountry. It was from my home airport of Springs East (A50), to Limon (LIC) to catch some lunch, and back again. I had a total time of 1.5hrs and I flew the whole flight.  By the time the packers came to take our stuff to our new home, I was landing in all conditions, my dad nearly ever touched the controls, and I was practicing  several times a week. The Challenger II   It is the year 2015, the cool September winds blew across the great eastern plains of Colorado. At the local FBO I took a crash course to calculate compass corrections with trigonometry. Later I sat With my dad in front of the family desktop...

I have been working hard since summer to earn money. I have numerous projects in progress. I have been mowing and raking yards, and am in the process of finding new customers. Eating chocolate dipped strawberries is always fun, but they are so expensive that you only get one or two. Come summer I will be selling them locally, and at a great price. I always have extra free time at the gym, so I've been detailing cars.  I'm still adding new customers and will soon be up to several jobs per week. I have recently set my sights on a new endeavor, one that uses the same skills I'm already practicing, and I think it may be really popular." Lawn care, car detailing, berries and my upcoming Secret Project are all adding money towards my goal. I hope y'all get a good idea of how hard I am working to complete my vision. Thank you so much to all of those who have donated to me, I really appreciate it. Paul Shadwick Stan Whitfield Paul Duff Paul Hockin Gordon Fe...

I made a movie out of an origami X-wing taped to a camera. Enjoy!

This Thanksgiving my family went to Kansas City to visit friends and family. Well, when you have two or more old aviation buddies in the same city, you tend to form a bit of a gathering. Thus the 2016 KC Turkey Shoot was created. It involved 3 Sonex , and a beautiful Cessna. And consisted of a flight from a Gardner Airport to We-B-Smoking BBQ at Miami County Airport. I Flew down with Bob Mika's in Katie, his Sonex, while my dad and two friends ,Zander and Laney ,flew in Mr Ron's smooth Cessna. I even got to fly for about 10 min! It may not have been hours, but  the Aerovee-powered plane flew wonderfully in the  morning air. Once we arrived, my nose was overrun by the luxurious scent of pancakes, and when I surveyed the room, I saw countless airplane pictures. (I lost the photo, Y'all will just have to go) http://www.websmokin.com/  Sitting down to eat at a table that seemed average, we awaited th...

November 19th ,2016 was not a good day for the young eagles rally. There really wasn't any way that one could have known. Several small things piled up to make November 19th unsuitable. Hunting season, almost all of the boy scouts being at camp, and thanksgiving break, all molehills. One at a time they could be ignored, but when combined it meant that our target audience, the kids, were all busy, Meaning us pilots had nothing to do. Then we remembered "Hey wait a minute, We're pilots. We all love talking, especially if it has wings!" Soon after we got to talkin' , our first young eagle arrived. He was a teenager that had been at the last few chapter functions and was dedicated to learning to fly. I had previously told him how great "Sporty's learn to fly" was as a groundschool program, and that it was free to young eagles. My dad flew him as the day's first young eagle. "Boy was it windy", my dad said. "Though above 30...

Saturday, November 5th, 2016 I woke up early to catch breakfast on the way to my EAA chapter's monthly meeting. But we weren't just talking about planes. No, this month was special, it was the annual Slobovia Outernational pumpkin drop. Both breakfast, and the meeting were a blur, all I could think about was the upcoming fly-in. Before I knew it, me, alongside 4 other planes, were lined up engines running. I heard my dad say " Challenger 443SR ,departing to the north" We were off. After a relaxing flight over we landed on the clean lush 4,000' grass runway of Slobovia. We followed the ground crew to our spot, and killed the engine. I had my first unhampered look at the festivities, there were planes all around us! Low wing high wing, ultralight, bush plane! The uniting factor was the lack of windows , in preparation for the pumpkin bombing runs they were about to embark on. After a chat with just about every fellow p...