{"id":915,"date":"2010-10-09T18:54:11","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T02:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=915"},"modified":"2010-10-09T19:03:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T03:03:14","slug":"little-things-painted-gas-caps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=915","title":{"rendered":"Little things: Painted Gas Caps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/Flying\/32169\/\">32169<\/a> went in for annual inspection, followed by a week of rain so that I couldn&#8217;t fly her.\u00a0 Today I went out and flew around a little to make sure all was well.\u00a0 You&#8217;d think that right after a big teardown inspection everything would be perfect, and usually that&#8217;s true, but it&#8217;s always a flight I approach with extra caution.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why I didn&#8217;t fly her in the rain &#8211; something I&#8217;m usually just as happy to do.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the flight was great and everything was pretty much perfect.\u00a0 There was an added bonus.\u00a0 I&#8217;d asked about painting my fuel caps and that had been done.\u00a0 I&#8217;d picked up a new cap a <a href=\"http:\/\/bpod.org\/blog\/?p=1546\">couple years ago when on the road<\/a> and had never gotten it painted.\u00a0 Now it looks beautiful.\u00a0 I feel like the plane has doubled in value!\u00a0 Of course it hasn&#8217;t; used airplane values are not doing well lately.<\/p>\n<p>Gaze on the beauty of my painted cap:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_916\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSCN4121.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-916\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-916\" title=\"A white gas cap!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSCN4121-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"A white gas cap!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSCN4121-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSCN4121-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSCN4121.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A white gas cap!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Incidentally, you know you fly the same plane a lot when you realize that after painting the caps, your mechanic has put them on the &#8220;wrong&#8221; wing tanks.\u00a0 You know you&#8217;re whack-o when you fix that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week 32169 went in for annual inspection, followed by a week of rain so that I couldn&#8217;t fly her.\u00a0 Today I went out and flew around a little to make sure all was well.\u00a0 You&#8217;d think that right after a big teardown inspection everything would be perfect, and usually that&#8217;s true, but it&#8217;s always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}