Hallo, is anybody leaving Indiana (Indianapolis area) to go to Oshkosh July 27 or 28, (and return at the weekend)? I've been an EAA member for 4 years now and since I live in Germany could never make it to our "family convention". So if you have an empty seat in your car or even your plane ;-) and...

We will be flying from Calgary to KAWO for the EAA fly-in for the fifth year and would like to see some interesting sites around Washington, Oregon and Montana. We've been to McMinville and the Spruce Goose Museum as well as the blimp hangar and Museum at Tillemook. The Boeing plant will likely be...

Something about the thread, regarding transmitting power from one radio being funnelled into the other radio made me take pause. In the Houston area (and I'm sure most other major cities) there is an antenna farm that has a collection of FM, AM and TV broadcast antennae. I would estimate there are...

In article , John Ross wrote: This past weekend was Creve Coeur airport's annual WACO fly-in. On Saturday early evening Bud Dake took up passenger Ken Love for a short flight in his clipwing Monocoupe. Bud has...

was the undercarriage design for the BD5 a competent design? I know all about the deficiencies in the 5 (I even still got the info pack :-) ) but in all the kerfuffel I've never heard a single bad word about Jim's undercarriage design. The design buzzing around in my head at the moment would work...

C.D. Damron writes: For example, if I build a plane that is impossible to fly or a helicopter that cannot be auto-rotated, it is still very possible that an accident report could conclude that I was at fault for not avoiding a stall or not successfully performing an auto-rotation. Why? Because...

The local FSDO has this form they want submitted before scheduling an inspection. It asks for (1) "Net empty C.G. range" and (2) "Loaded C.G. limits". Now I know that my C.G. has to fall within 15-28% of chord, and I can easily figure that out. It works out to 77.95 to 84.84 inches aft of datum....

I am wondering if there are any 4 place Vision builders out there who are almost finished building? I am considering building one myself and am just curious.

Hello, With two ANR headsets, is a vox intercom still useful? Thanks -- Philippe Vessaire Ò¿Ó¬

Never mind. I'm getting confused. -- Charlie Springer

I was wondering if anyone else was designing (or maybe even progressed to building) a homebuilt aircraft based on the PBY Catalina? The reason I ask is that I have been thinking of designing one for some time. Now that I have 1 year to go before finishing my BS in ME, I have decided to begin...

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 07:39:43 -0700, Richard Riley wrote: I'm trying to guage general interest. I'm not planning on selling them directly, really I just want a pair for myself but it looks like the minimum reasonable run is about 100. I'll sell the rest to Wicks and...

Ok.. I made it to Osh 2002, and missed Osh 2003. I am not CERTAIN but isnt this the first year in a long time that Basler is not the sole FBO on field, or was Orion there last year too? I will be missing this years OSH as well, but the point of all this is I just got my red prop tag in the mail...

Hi, I'm looking for leads to any information on Frank Hawks' Golden Age racing airplane, 'Time Flies'. This plane was designed by Howell Miller and built by the Granville Brothers crew after the company was liquidated in the mid-1930's. The plane was damaged in a landing accident and later...

Does anyone have a copy of the Narco Escort II Service Manual that I could get a copy of? Thanks, Jeff

Flightworks appears to have gone out of business. I have spent a great deal of time searching the web and can't find a trace of them. I have a Capella, 2-place, trigear, Rotax 582 powered, and of about a 1990 vintage. I need a copy of the construction manual. Not the drawings. Just the pages...

This is a very lengthy but worth reading post. For the purposes of possibly saving someone's life or at least preventing serious injury to their wallets, I am posting below the text of an e-mail I sent recently to someone who had advertised a Cessna in the San Diego area. I was looking for a super...

The bad news: There was a welded repair on the #2 cylinder, right next to the intake valve. Looks like the stress around the repair warped either the valve stem or the valve guide. There was no scoring on the cylinder walls and the rings were intact, and it was apparent that oil was coming in...

Anyone have any detailed instructions for internal timing of a newer slick magneto?