First time the entire airplane was fit together. Previous to this the engine and no tail was on, or the tail and no engine.

Looking Good!

 We tailored the airplane up to Brooksville Airport. 7000'x200' wide runways, very low traffic.

That’s my wife Liz staring at the airplane and Bill Buston on the left. Bill let George teach me tail dragging in Bills 1940 Porterfield, his love. Thanks Bill for being so supportive.

 This was the last time the Q-Bird was on the trailer.

From here it completed about 5 hours test flight time and was moved to SPG, Albert Whitted Airport in downtown St. Pete. The next pages have in air pictures of the home airport.

There is George Read on the left. George did the test flying of this bird. I picked him cause if it has wings on it George can fly it. George helped me get checked out in tail draggers and he sill remembers when this green kid walked into the EAA chapter 47 meeting one evening in 1984 and announced he was going to build a Quickie Q-200. They laughed! Well maybe giggled a little. Throughout the building process the members of EAA chapter 47 were a part of my life. I don't think you can build an airplane without this kind of support. I don't think we'd have these airplanes except for the work of the EAA national. Thanks guys.

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 I think this is a picture of Thomasville, GA FSAACA Fly-in. The first Fly-in that we attended with the new airplane (after the 40 hours test time was signed off).

Harry Fletcher and I flew up there on a hot summer day. Harry had helped me get checked out in tail draggers and had coached me along with practice in a 100 mph rag wing that stalls at 45MPH so that I could fly this screamer that stalls around 70MPH and tops out over 200MPH !