Adam Jet Test Flight

I’ve been traveling the past few days, on Thursday I was in Philly in the morning and off to LA in the afternoon to the LMU campus as a guest lecturer for the technology and business class there. The students at the Conrad Hilton School of Business listened to me talk about RICH GUY and the way it started etc. Then they gave me some suggestions. One young lady, Lydia Schuler, from New York State suggested I add titles to the website’s index. Which I did during a break. Feedback like that is invaluable!

Also the highlight of this trip was a visit to the Adam Aircraft factory in Denver Colorado. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the company, they are the manufacturers of the A500 turboprop which was featured in Miami Vice and the A700 jet which will be released soon. I met Jan D’Angelo one of the pilots that flew the Miami Vice plane and also the VP of Sales for the company. It was a quick introduction “Hi, Nice to meet you, lets go flying”. Just the words I like to hear!

I originally went to do a story about the plane, and while flying the plane was incredible (flight review to be posted soon) I found the people in the company to be very much like all the fly guys that I grew up with. They love flying and are doing something they believe in.

Here are a few pictures of my test flight. A high angle of ascent, steep turns, the whole drill as they say. I had my camera recording video as well but it was set to a macro mode and kept focus hunting. I botched the landing but the plane forgave my misjudgments of altitude and speed ;)

Funny enough I actually nailed the first landing, as luck would have it, I didn’t record it.

Now I'm off to New Mexico for a week of golf!

Here's the video: Adam A700 Landing Video