Morgans wrote: Why not use a little electric fan to draw air past the radiator for extended ground operations, like cars do? It has been done. Bayard DuPont did it on the rear engine in his Defiant and it worked well. Others who tried it found problems with ram air in flight spinning the fans...

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I have noted here that Northwest Aero, the manufacturer of the evolution of the Blanton designed cog belt prop speed reduction unit had been sold. The new owner said that he would continue making he PSRUs for the Chevies and Fords. Yesterday I got an Email from another V-6 STOL builder who needed...

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I have been requested to build a pair of aluminum wing tank for a KitFox. I don't have the details yet as to the model, but I thought I'd try to locate some info. Is there a place on the web where I might find diagrams or co-ordinates for the several airfoils used on KitFoxes? -- Bruce A....

A while back I remember seeing an article in one of the aviation magazines about the affect of squared off trailing edges on control surfaces of light planes. Anyone know where such an article might exist? So far I have found several Boeing and NACA publications on wings with blunt trailing edges,...

Kenny has too many projects and just no time to finish this one. The prop mentioned below is the McCauley 8467 two blade. Most builders using the Ford engine find a need to repitch it to 72-76" to keep engine below self imposed redline of 4800 rpm. Hi Bruce,

I belong to EAA Chapter 62 here in San Jose, CA. We recently received a donation of a freshly built Ford 3.8L V-6 complete with 2:1 cogbelt PSRU, prop (may be the McCauley 8467...have to check) and radiator. The club has the whole package for sale for $2900. If you are interested contact...

Have a friend who has decided that he hasn't time to build this...he has a modified Wag Aero 2+2 Sportsman with the Ford engine which he has decided to put on floats rather than build this hull type amphib. Note that this price includes the engine AND the PSRU. ======================= FOR...

This is very useful tech info from the BD4 group! Thought you guys might find it interesting. X-Originating-IP: X-Sender: X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1.1 Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 19:52:16 -0500

Forwarded from the Bearhawk group. Read this. If you fly for recreation, you may not be doing that much longer. ========================= I apologize for the length of this but wanted people to realize what is going on. This total insanity is being repeated at all 450 commercial airports in the US...

I am trying to come up with a 60" box/pan brake for which I am willing to trade a pair of aluminum fuel tanks built to fit your project. I am looking for something old but serviceable or easily repairable. -- Bruce A. Frank, Editor "Ford 3.8/4.2L Engine and V-6...

I have come by a lathe that has some electrical problems. The unit has a 2 hp 3 phase 220 volt motor. One of the magnetic relays was burned out when I got the lathe. I replaces the relay, turned the switch on and the brand new relay burned up also. Though the lathe came with most of the tooling...

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I have received several email from people building auto engines for their projects. A problem has come up because of the unavailability of the Modine "Donut" water-to-oil cooler. This is a very nice heat exchanger that fits between the engine block and spin-on oil filter. It uses the coolant water...

In theory the lead provides lubrication, but in application it causes sticking and burned valves from un-even deposits on the sealing surfaces of the valve and seat. Now if you have rotators on the valves there might be a different story. With the materials used in valves and valve seats, even ...

trying to get another reader to work -- Bruce A. Frank, Editor "Ford 3.8/4.2L Engine and V-6 STOL Homebuilt Aircraft Newsletter" | Publishing interesting material| | on all aspects of alternative | | engines and homebuilt...

Does anyone know where to find insturment images, I know about the epanelbuilder.com site but either I forgot how to save the images or I imagined that you could print them full sized. I want to be able to rearrange the images on the panel mock up in the fuselage. Thanks. Bruce

Jay Honeck wrote: Okay, gentlemen and ladies, compiled below is our roster thus far for the Thursday night "rec.aviation" get together at our campsite in the North 40. (Reminder: The procedure is as follows: After the air show on Thursday night, we rendezvous at our campsite. You must...

I remember seeing somewhere in some rag (SA, AOPA pilot maybe Kitplanes) a new variable pitch propellor system that used ram air pushing against the tip of the spinner to govern the blade pitch. It had not propellor control, no hollow crank, no rpm governer, no connections at all. Just when you...