Got this from Kevin Horton, originally posted by RV-6 builder Mark Nielsen: ============================== For my glareshield, I mounted a piece of 3/8" soft aluminum tubing (same as fuel line) along the aft edge of the glareshield. I cut...
Update 20210918: I didn't install the Eggenfellner Subaru engine, so any post that references that can be ignored or used as a cautionary tale about how to avoid wasting many years and $50k. All this...
Yesterday, Feb 1 2006, I spent the afternoon at Mistral Engines in Geneva. Mistral is developing a family of rotary aviation engines for the certified and experimental markets. They have completed development on the 2-rotor normally...
Here is what your HTML or formatted E-mail looks like in reality. Scroll down to the single . at the bottom. Over 18793 bytes to communicate a 622 byte message. And you wonder why your PC gets slower...
I've got to find a solution to getting rivets in these two places. The problem is that the engine mount is almost touching the hole. I can't even get a pop rivet in there. I'm...
I went to the local junkyard to try to find a coolant overflow tank. I looked in about 50 cars. One pattern I found was that the best places to find stuff are the "smaller"...
On my 8 with the intercooler, there is not a lot of room to have the coolant expansion tank sitting up very high. I had a custom tank built, but it really didn't solve the...
Update 20210918: I didn't install the Eggenfellner Subaru engine, so any post that references that can be ignored or used as a cautionary tale about how to avoid wasting many years and $50k. Here are a...
I designed and had built a new coolant expansion tank. I outsourced this to Canton Racing in the US, since they seem to have a lot of nice coolant expansion tanks in their product line....
These are just some pictures of my flap fairings. There have been some questions about them, and I realized I didn't have any photos of them at all. I didn't have too much trouble putting them...
I've had a few people ask me about my air compressor, so here are a couple of pictures and some comments. I bought the compressor from a guy in Germany via E-bay. The manufacturer of the...
The exhaust system has connection points, called "bungs", welded onto them for two sensors on the left, and one on the right. These bungs are for the air/fuel ratio sensor, and the exhaust gas temperature...
Update 20210918: I didn't install the Eggenfellner Subaru engine, so any post that references that can be ignored or used as a cautionary tale about how to avoid wasting many years and $50k. There are three...
RV-List message posted by: "JOHN STARN" I've posted for years on this subject. If you have heard it before delete now. EVERY RV (and derivatives) with a tail wheel can, have & well nose over if too much RPM...
More great information on bolts and torque from Clare Snyder on the airsoob list: I'm not going to argue - but I'm not the only one who dissagrees with you. Google "Torque to yield" and you will...
A great article by Steven Miller, chopped out of the airsoob Yahoo list. Excellent reading! I have to chime in after reading Marvin's post. He seems to have put a lot of thought into his theory...
I got my pipes coated with ceramic by http://Jet-Hot.com. It seems like it turned out ok. It cost about $200. I guess I'll know how well it works after I get them installed, and fire...
I drilled the holes to allow the conduit in the wings to come into the fuselage. This was tricky since I had to measure pretty precisely the location. Of course, if I'm off a bit...
I got a set of gear intersection fairings for my RV8 with Grove airfoil gear. They are really nice. Only one small problem, the right upper fairing does not quite fit. The left fits perfectly. Here's...
Here I describe the rear stick cover. I bought the cover from GeoBeck, Inc., a.k.a. George and Becki Orndorff (no longer active, apparently) with my seats. The cover comes with a diagram of how to...
Continued from Rear Stick Cover Part 1 Here's what the cover looks like with the leather on there. Notice the super-cool aluminum air vent, acquired in a pair for 30 USD at SNF'04. Nice view from the...
Here's a very good article about the dangers of static electricity when fueling aircraft. There are some risks here discussed that I had never heard, so I found the article very useful. From the article: Always...
Anytime you get an E-mail that says to click a link, and re-confirm data, or any other junk like that, just delete it. You can get these from banks, credit card companies, the government, lotteries, etc. None are legitimate, and...
Watch out when buying things on eBay. There are a lot of scammers out there. If they want you to pay with Western Union, watch out! No legit business that I have heard of would require...
Update 20210918: I didn't install the Eggenfellner Subaru engine, so any post that references that can be ignored or used as a cautionary tale about how to avoid wasting many years and $50k. Here's another story...