HB-YMM Experimental Homebuilt Van’s Aircraft RV-8
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...
I'm upgrading Geeklog, and moving from my own server to a "shared" server platform. Update: 2005.11.17 - switch over to the new host has been completed....
This is not exactly a flight testing issue, but I thought this would be a good place to put this information. Here is a post from the VansAirforce.net forums, written by Glen M. Thompson: All BMA...
Here are a couple of photos that show some things I'll have to figure out about mounting the coolant tank. The coolant expansion tank is a Moroso racing tank, and costs about 99 USD from places...
Here are a couple of pictures of the old and new fuel pressure regulator. The original was set at a fixed pressure, and the new one is able to be regulated. The old one: The new one: ...
I installed the PSRU breather. The original design was simple, but in some installations there was a bit of oil dripping out. The breather should solve that problem. Here are a couple of pictures of 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. I changed the...
This is a letter written by the pilot involved in this accident. I received your letter asking for more details in my recent RV accident. I have had a number of similar requests so I will...
This excellent article is from Ross Farnham of Simple Digital Systems. The original article is here: http://www.sdsefi.com/air44.htm Deadstick Technique for RV Pilots This article deals with some of the lessons learned from my forced landing on Jan....
From: "Richard E. Tasker" Date: Wed Oct 5, 2005 9:51 pm Subject: Pressure sensing 101 retasker2000 Caution: Significant technobabble to follow :-) ! But you might learn something...
I installed the tailwheel steering link from Terry Jantzi. http://www.iwantarocket.com/ It took about 5 minutes, including drilling and reaming the hole on the rudder horn to 3/16" for the AN3 bolt. ...
Jim Skala wrote: >> I will use a lot larger capacitance value, but a 50 volt ceramic type is >> exactly what you want. At work, I have found that soldering a 10uF, 50V >> multilayer ceramic 1210...
Q: > When I run my 2.5L single cam with MT prop static with the rpm > selector at 2700 rpm, the EIS indicates exactly 2700 rpm at full > throttle. However, when I did my high speed...
To keep the canopy from going too far back, some kind of stop is needed. I installed a scrap piece of delrin and installed it with a couple of screws. Turned out ok, and it's...
Got a small problem with the hooker harness I bought. I've got the 5-point attachment with a Schroth rotary buckle. Very nice stuff. I bought them from Mark Frederick of Team Rocket for a good...
I'm just now starting on the cowl. I got some serious hints from J. Daniels on how to do it. He's got a great site. The first thing I've decided to do is to try to...
Just starting on the cowl, and there is a nasty gap between the cowl and the spinner. Here is the right side with the pretty large gap. Here is the left which shows the spinner and the...
The AutoXray ODB-II scanner is not working. I checked the continuity between the two ends of the cable, and it looks ok. Here are a couple of photos: Here you can see the error message I...
I had the feeling that the ozone generator in our Hot Spring (Watkins Manufacturing) Jetsetter spa was not working right. In retrospect it seems like it has not been working right for a long time....
Rather than showing all the pain, I'm just going to show you the baby. Here is an assortment of pictures of the bottom rudder tip, so that you can see what I did. The reason...
This article is continued from here: http://www.rv8.ch/article.php?story=20050902211803283 Here are more pictures of the lower rudder tip. This article continues here: http://www.rv8.ch/article.php/200707281738417...
Mike Schipper wrote a very slick tool that allows you to edit the User-Definable pages on the Grand Rapids Technologies EIS 4000: http://www.my9a.com/eis/ Here's what Mike says: The purpose of this tool is to quickly and easily design...