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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Good flight home this morning from SoCal. Overall very smooth (much smoother than the outbound trip). Decided to fly over the coast until shortly after San Luis Obispo. Despite the not-quite-direct route, we still made it in record time! (2.8 hours logged, 2.3 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A screenshot of metadata from track log for this flight.

Total distance: 341 nautical miles (392 statute miles, 631 km)
Total time: 2 hours, 45 minutes
Flight time: 2 hours, 23 minutes
Night time: 0.
All landings: 1
Average ground speed: 142 knots (163 mph, 262 km/hr)

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Beautiful photo of the sun as we flew over Ojai. You can kinda see the Channel Islands in the distance, but the glare on the canopy makes that hard. (Credit: @nicaless) #avgeek #aviation

Late afternoon sun, as seen from my airplane some 9000 feet up.

The sun is reflecting off the ocean to create a beautiful orange, almost sunset-look on the water, despite still being solidly day.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

By far the best of the three built-in options. #AppleNewton

A photo of my Apple Newton (a MessagePad 2100).

The note on the screen shows off different font options.

The note is titled “this is espy sans” and is in the espy sans font.

The top center of the note reads “Hello Mastodon” in what NewtonOS calls ink text. This is a slightly shrunk down version of my own handwriting.

The next line reads “This is the Casual font”, and is in a kind of handwriting-like text font.
The third line reads “This is the Simple font”, a sans-serif thin font.
The fourth line reads “this is the Fancy font”, a serifed font similar to Times New Roman.

Below that reads “as you can see, Casual looks best”

The final line reads “Ink text is used at the top - my own handwriting!”

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

I already have an Apple Duo at home, though, why would I pay 2k for a new one?

An Apple PowerBook Duo 280c (circa 1994), on top of 2 Apple Quadra 605s (circa 1993), and next to a 512k Macintosh (circa 1984).
In the reflection of the PowerBook, you can make out me, holding my phone in my right hand and flashing a peace sign with my left hand.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

New altitude record! We got up to 15,500 ft feet (by the altimeter, 16,300 feet by GPS). (4825 meters and 4970 meters, respectively) Was planning to cruise at 13,500 ft (4115 meters), which also is an altitude record for us, but the light chop turned into […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A selfie of my wife and I in our airplane. We are wearing canulas which are providing us with extra oxygen. We are both wearing sunglasses because of course.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

Only a day later, and I am finding myself significantly more impressed at the handwriting recognition on the MessagePad 2100. Yes, I’m slightly changing how I write to try to fit that, but if it’ll result in more readable chicken scratch, then this is only a […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

My Newton with notes from an attempt to use Vapor’s SQLKit directly for a project. It reads:

for now, the big issue facing me is how to update models. SQLKit makes that nonobvious. It should just be the update method on SQLDatabase, but that seems incomplete.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

It arrived. I am very excited. It’s larger than the specs made it appear. I’m going to try to daily-drive this for a bit, but I doubt I’ll do that long-term.

An Apple Newton MessagePad 2100 from 1997. It is open to the notes app (the default homescreen), which is showing “Hello Newton!”

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

Still remember summer in the late 90s/00s as pretty good. That might primarily be because it was 3 months without school. Thanks capitalism for ruining summer.

Screenshot from Carrot Weather

Heat Advisory
Partially cloudy
74F (23C), feels like 78F (25C)

With a range of temperatures indicating that the high for today will be 80F (26C).

“Carrot”’s message is “the idea of summer is so much better than the reality”.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

I'm reading "Programming for the Newton", for, uh, reasons (I am weirdly obsessed with this ancient failed PDA). On Newton, data is stored in "soups", which are globally-accessible data blobs. This is both really cool, and not something that could possibly fly […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Sharing data

On many personal computers, information between applications is not shared. A typical example is names and phone numbers. A personal computer user has to enter names and phone numbers innumerable times. First, in a faxing utility, again in an address book, again in a word processor, and so on.

On Newton, a user should never have to repeat such information. Because soups are accessible to any application, users have access to data from anywhere. If you are creating an application that deals with names and phone numbers, you use the built in Names soup to get that data.

In conjunction with this, application writers are encouraged to publish the format of their soup entries so that other applications may access them. Apple also publishes the format of all its soups so that you can obtain information, as well as modify or augment existing information (like adding favorite color to each name in the Names soup).

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Courtesy of my wife. We were just outside the lateral bounds of the TFR (and also about 3k feet above the vertical bounds - no chance of busting that TFR - not that you want to fly directly over a fire) #aviation #avgeek

The base of what WatchDuty is calling the Castle Fire in southern Oregon, as seen from the air.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Got a hangar for my plane! Obviously, the first order of business is taken care of, but help me out with the second order of business: furnishing the place. How should I make this less barren? #avgeek #AirplaneOwnership

My airplane, an rv-9a with sliding canopy, parked in a new-to-me hangar. There is nothing else in the hangar.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

And here’s an example from a place that does it right. Soap and mouthwash dispensers are clearly labeled. No chance of confusion.

Three dispensers next to a sink. The soap and mouthwash are clearly labeled and easy to tell apart.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

From one of our stops earlier today. I used the sink in the first photo (with the green bottle) to wash my hands. The built-in soap dispenser wasn’t working. But, remembering 3 weeks ago, I didn’t go for the bottle on the left side of the faucet. Interestingly […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A sink at an Atlantic FBO. There is a bottle of unknown substance next to the automatic faucet & soap dispenser.

The sink immediately the left of the sink from the other image. There is an automatic faucet, and automatic soap dispenser, an automatic towel dispenser, and a bottle labeled mouthwash with some cups.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

Love the livery in the Korean Airlines… looks like a widebody of some kind. I am far better at recognizing small aircraft than I am at recognizing airliners. Anyway, the blue over silver look of this is very aesthetically pleasing.

A Korean Airlines airliner taxiing at SFO, as seen from an AirTrain platform.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

Another one! (I’m not going to post about this again). And if you’re curious, the direct link. Heads up: it’s a generated from a Markov chain trained on 1984 and Brave New World. It’s complete nonsense […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A google alert email for my name. It shows a preview and links to a randomly-generated webpage that exists to poison LLMs.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

I love the kinetic sculpture at the SFO bart station. So pretty. Sadly, video is literally incapable of doing it justice.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026

And of course widebodies are always a treat.

A Singapore Airlines A-350 waiting on a taxiway at SFO.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026

Absolutely adore clear days at SFO. Even just watching bog standard narrowbodies land is great.

An Alaskan flight on some narrowbody airliner landing at SFO.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026

Today, after years of playing, I finally beat celeste classic. (This is the psp port: github.com/aggressivepixels/ccleste)

The summit screen for Celeste Classic. This run had 14 berries collected. 14 minutes 47 seconds gametime. 120 deaths.

I gave up collecting berries around 2600 ft.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

Mt Shasta looking regal and beautiful, even when partially obscured by clouds.

Mt. Shasta in Northern California, as seen just outside of Grenada, CA (south of Yreka, north of Weed). It is partially obscured by clouds.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

[Selfie, eye contact] New #tdov, new #selfie! #TransDayOfVisibility This year marks 14 years living my absolute best life.

Selfie of me flashing a peace sign. I have long red hair tied in a ponytail. My shirt is a stylized dragon breathing fire that reads “trans rights”.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026

From one of the airplane builder’s mailing lists I’m a part of. I initially thought it was about automated flight attendants and was very confused, but it’s actually for those going to a fly in.

Email subject line: “Cozy: Innovations in flight attendants”

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026

Down in the bay this weekend for some househunting, and this is what we get for breakfast today. How will we afford a house if we keep getting this?

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

LOL! You mention the b-word and you get Bluesky messages from all the crypto scam accounts!

A screenshot of my notifications from Ivory. Showing a message from Bridgy-Fed letting me know I have an interaction from someone who has not bridged their account to fedi, along with a preview of that interaction.

That interaction is from a crypto scam account.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

Switching colors mid-print is fun, especially the contrast between the previous gray and the dark blue. That’s neat. This is the second change of this batch. The first few layers are black, and once that ran out, I switched to a gray sample reel I had laying around before going to the blue.

Several bitonal whistles in the process of being printed. I had just ran out of gray filament, and switched to a blue filament. The first layer with that switch is being printed, with a nice contrast between the gray of the previous layers and the blue just now being added.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

[General Aviation drama] The letter I wrote. I'm sending it both as an email to the AOPA board trustee, and as a letter to AOPA headquarters. Images are duplicated for alt-text reasons. First image has first half, second image has the other half.

James Hauslein and the rest of the AOPA Board,

My name is Rachel Brindle, AOPA member [redacted]. I've been a member since November 2022. I'm a private pilot with a single-engine airplane instrument rating, and just over 250 hours total time. Just this past year | bought my first airplane: a 2014 Vans RV-9A, for which resources from both AOPA and the EAA were extremely helpful to me when making that decision.

| am writing to express my extreme displeasure that AOPA has parted ways with Darren Pleasance as CEO. This was extremely disappointing news to receive. | have been nothing but pleased by Mr. Pleasance’s tenure as CEO. AOPA is an advocacy group, and one which has not been serving its core members for years. Mr. Pleasance has gone out of his way to meet with pilots like me to ensure that we are heard, and that AOPA advocates for our concerns. In prior years, it felt much more like AOPA cared more about advocating for richer members - those who can afford $1 million+ turboprop or jet-powered aircraft -
instead of advocating for keeping general aviation accessible to the general public. AOPA needs to advocate for lead-free avgas, for improving the aviation medical system so that pilots can seek mental health care, advocating for electric aviation, and overall ensuring that everyone can access aviation. Mr. Pleasance made such things his priority.

[Remainder in the next image].

[Continued from previous]:

The stated reason for Mr. Pleasance’s removal does not match given Mr. Pleasance’s purchasing a second home in Frederick, Maryland and reportedly spending more time at AOPA headquarters. This leads me to speculate that there are other reasons behind this. If Mr. Pleasance was fired for cause, we as members deserve to hear from the board the actual reasons why.

In addition to the firing of Mr. Pleasance, | find myself disgusted by AOPA's hiring of a third-party crisis management firm to attempt to manage the uproar over this. That is nothing less than a waste of money - money which should be spent on furthering AOPA's goals of advocating for pilots.

This incident has dramatically reduced my faith in AOPA's board to represent my interests and the interests of pilots. To help at least partially restore that faith, | am calling on the AOPA board to immediately reinstate Mr. Pleasance as CEO of AOPA. Additionally, | am calling on those members of the AOPA board responsible for Mr. Pleasance’s departure to resign. Furthermore, | am calling on those members of the AOPA board responsible for hiring of that crisis management firm to resign.

1 will be withholding my proxy vote for the foreseeable future, and if | do not see the changes | wish to see, | will be forced to reconsider whether | wish to continue being an AOPA member. | will also be advocating for other members to do the same as they see fit.

Thank you for your consideration,

Rachel Brindle

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

It’s just as good as I remember. Minus having to use Apple Music to manage my music. That part got worse. But I don’t want to deal with rockbox more than I want to not deal with Apple Music. This might not be the correct choice to make, but don’t try to correct me on it.

A pink iPod mini on my desk. A headphone cable is attached to it. The iPod’s now-playing screen indicates that Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band is playing, and that it is shuffling all currently loaded songs on the iPod.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

It’s here, and I love it even more than I thought I would.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025

Short final, runway 17, touch and go. From a flight at the beginning of the month. 360 cameras are fun. You’ll note that my nose wheel does not touch the ground during this. The nosegear variants of the Vans RVs are known to be rather weak and prone to […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/11/2025

I did the thing all the aviation youtubers are doing, and I bought a 360 camera + a pole mount for my airplane. It's pretty cool to have this kind of third-person view of the airplane. The workflow for importing this is... not great, but fine. You need to […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

My airplane, a 2-seater propeller-driven light airplane, as viewed from a 360° mounted on a pole extending in front of the wing. The camera is slightly below the wing, keeping the tail number hidden by the wing.
The sky is blue, with some high-level clouds. The ground is largely farmland.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/11/2025

My return flight is delayed. And it got delayed after I arrived at SFO. Which I’m fine with, because I got a really nice view down 28L/R, an ok view of 01 L/R, and liveatc in my ears. #avgeek #aviation

View from next to gate E11 at SFO. There’s a nice view of 28L/R and also an ok view of 01 L/R. 2 narrow body airliners have landed on 28L and R, and are slowing down to exit the runways.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/11/2025

0/0 conditions. Yeah, I’ll very happily leave this to the professionals. They have much better equipment and far more training than I do. Doing a short weekend trip. I was hoping to fly myself, but despite being forecast to have clear skies nearly all day, we […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

$The view outside a passenger window of an airliner. It is dark and very foggy. The runway and taxiway lights are all being heavily refracted. The visibility is less than half a mile, and obviously the ceiling is 0.$

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2025

The coolest and most annoying part of this trip is that originally we were planning to take Amtrak Cascades up. Except our train was cancelled due to some maintenance issue. Thankfully, we were able to get a full refund, which went towards fuel and ramp fees at […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

View from the passenger side of my airplane, showing us departing runway 14 right out of Boeing field. In the far background, somewhat obscured by haze, is Mt Rainier.

View over the left wing of my airplane as we pass by Mt Rainier on our way home from Seattle.

View over our left wing as we pass by what I think is Mt St Helens on our way home.

An aerial view of Portland, Oregon from west of the city. On the left side of the image is Portland International, with the Willamette river and Downtown Portland on the right side of the image.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2025

Spent a long weekend up in Seattle! I am definitely falling in love with this city, and, concerns about winter aside, I could see us living there someday. We spent most of this trip in the downtown area, so we were exposed to the most urban/pedestrian friendly […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2025

Oh joy, planning a flight for tomorrow. The choice is between dodging fire TFRs (temporary flight restrictions), going way out to the east to avoid most of the fire TFRs, or delay departure until the marine layer burns off enough that I can fly along the coast […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A screenshot of ForeFlight on my iPhone, showing a VFR sectional map of the Siskiyou mountains. There are 7 TFRs for firefighting reasons in the area.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025

[Food] Now I’m grabbing a late lunch from the local food truck pod. Pupusas!

An outdoor table with a plate of 2 bean and cheese pupusas, with an Arnold Palmer (ice tea and lemonade). My recumbent ebike is in the background.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2025

New transponder arrived! For as small as the frontal area on these things are, it’s really easy to forget how deep they are. My com/nav radio from trig is about the same dimensions. Also, it came with a wire harness where the wires are completely unlabeled. I […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

The frontal area of my new transponder. It is 1.6 inches/4 cm tall and 6.25 inches/15.9 cm wide.

A 3/4 view of my new transponder. It is 1.6 inches/4 cm tall, 6.25 inches/15.9 cm wide, and 9 inches/22.9 cm deep.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2025

Flew along the Oregon Coast the other day. Absolutely beautiful terrain. Dense forested mountains abutting deep blue ocean. Breathtaking. I'm so lucky to be able to do this. #avgeek #aviation #oregon #OregonCoast

An aerial view of Seal Rock along the Oregon Coast. Seal Rock is a formation of rocks jutting out of the pacific coast right next to the coast. In the background is Alsea Bay.

An aerial view of the Oregon coast south of Yachats and north of Florence. The ocean is a deep, dark blue, and the mountains are a dark green. The sky is blue, with some clouds in the very far distance.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2025

Installed the new rudder links! It’s so much better. I actually moved my seat back one tab (second image shows the copilot seat, which is all the way back. The pilot’s seat is now at the center position). Only downside is that my rudder lock is slightly less […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Close up of the new rudder links installed on the pilot’s side. The rudder links have 5 holes, only the forward 2 are being used.

The pilot’s side rudder pedals, showing the difference in resting position the new rudder links force.

The co-pilot’s seat bottom of my airplane, showing the piano-hinge mechanism for defining the 3 different resting positions. To move the seat pivot, you pull out each hinge pin, move the seat, and then reinstall the pins. It’s annoying, but secure.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2025

After picking up that piece of bar stock earlier this week, I cut it up and made the new rudder links. And this time, with a bunch of holes for different spacing. So that the next owner doesn’t have to share my pain. #avgeek #aviation #ExperimentalAviation #homebuilt

4 rudder links - 4.5 inches x 0.5 inches x 0.05 inches of 4130 chromoly steel. With 5 holes drilled an inch apart, to allow for different spacing of the rudder pedals.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2025

Put the finishing touches on these chocks. If I ever have to make more, I’ve deeply fucked up. But they look nice!

8 pairs of white chocks, with white cord connecting pairs together.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2025

Just ordered my first part from Vans for my rv-9a! This little piece of 0.050" x 0.5" x 20" 4130 bar stock. Why do I need this? I am much shorter than the previous owner. For comfort, I want to move the rudder pedals forward a bit. I'm going to do that by making […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A close up of the pilot's-side (left) rudder pedal, cable, and link for my Vans RV-9A. In the center are 2 pieces of steel bar stock connecting the left rudder pedal to the left rudder cable.

I will be making new versions of links, with multiple holes drilled into them so that I or a future owner can adjust them.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2025

Crater lake from 10,000 feet! I bought a plane. An RV-9A. I'm really excited to have this. Flew it home today with the seller/former owner. Did a few touch and goes at KEUG before he disembarked for his return flight. Then I soloed to my home airport. Very long […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

An aerial view of Crater Lake, Oregon. Photo was taken from approximately 10,000 feet altitude. Crater Lake is just over the right wing of my airplane.

The northern shore of Crater Lake, OR. Snow is along the shore, and yellow stuff (salts presumably?) is visible along the shore and in the lake water.

My new airplane, an RV-9A. The background/non-airplane part has been heavily blurred, and the tail number has been redacted.

It's a small single-engine propeller driven airplane, with a sliding canopy. The paint scheme is primarily white with black highlights. There's a blue stripe separating the white from the black highlights. The tail has stripes running horizontally stacked on top of each other. These stripes are colored, from top to bottom: Yellow, Orange, Red, Purple, Violet, Blue, Light Blue.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2025

Lovely trip out to San Diego this weekend. Very productive, but also had time for touristy stuff, like visit San Diego Air and Space Museum! Very fun museum. They had a really interesting exhibit right now about Leonardo Da Vinci’s fascination with flight. They […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Me, standing in front of the San Diego Air and Space Museum. There are models of a Korean/Vietnam era fighter jet, and an sr-71 displayed out front. I am wearing a green dress with a light jacket, and pointing at the museum building. The wind is blowing my hair in my face.

An exterior view of the actual Apollo 9 command module. A small little cone that 3 people lived in for 10 days in 1969 while orbiting earth.

A replica of a glider wing designed by Leonardo Da Vinci, and presumably assembled using period-correct materials.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2025

Cut a bunch of lumber to dimension yesterday (rough length, but correct cross-section, and close enough to square), filling up 3 5-gallon buckets worth of sawdust in the process (and even with dust collection, the shop still got covered in sawdust. Pro-tip I […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

The lumber I “milled” using the fence of my table saw. It was already close-enough to square that I don’t really care. Now all these boards are 3.25 inches by 1.25 inches.

8 of the boards to be used for the legs glued together make 4 leg pieces. With a large amount of glue squeeze-out.

I’m using some of the other already-cut lumber in a likely-vain attempt to keep the boards aligned.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2025

Another entry for the #CarryShitOlympics 3 full-size (8 ft x 4 ft, or 2.43 m x 2.22m) of 1/2 inch (1.27 cm) Baltic birch plywood. 10 8 ft (2.43m) long 2x4s (actually 3.8 cm x 8.9 cm) Thanks to the electrics, the hardest part was getting the plywood off the […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A longtail cargo bike, with a loaded-up self-made 8ft (2.43 m) long trailer. The trailer has several sheets of plywood strapped down with ratchet straps.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2025

The metal lathe arrived! Now I have to build a stand for the thing, and then I can start making chips!

Looking down at a 10 inch x 30 inch benchtop metal lathe inside of a crate.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2025

I’m in the process of transferring epoxy resin out of the reservoir in this Sticky Stuff epoxy dispenser. Only, I’m using an incredibly undersized peristaltic pump for the viscosity of the resin, so it’s taken about 13 hours so far, and I still have some left to […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A black tube immersed in the large reservoir of a stick stuff 2-part epoxy dispenser. It leads off-frame into a peristaltic pump, and comes back in frame to a plastic jug for this resin. There is a heating mat on the dispenser reservoir to help lower the viscosity of the resin so it’ll flow faster. There are 2 marks in sharpie on the reservoir, once showing the level of the epoxy a few hours after this started, the other when I paused it for the night after it had been running for ~7 hours or so. The level as of when this photo was taken is much lower than the middle level. But this probably still won’t finish by the time I stop it for the night.

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Rachel Brindle @younata.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2025

Boo. I’m still going to take the train down there that week.

Screenshot of the first paragraph of Apple rejecting my request to attend the wwdc “special event at Apple Park”.

The actual email content is not interesting, just the rejection.

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