You blithering idiots! You re-elected that imbecile George Bush as your President. He’s a complete moron and so are most of you! - Which still leaves us well above you! Don’t you care what the rest of the world thinks of you? Don’t you care what

I am involved with the building of a velocity, and questions are flying around about propeller choice. For in-flight adjustable, we are limited at this time to an electric control, such as MT or IVO. Cost is pushing our options in this area towards the IVO. I have heard of some vibration/resonance...

Have they tried dimples on radio controlled aircraft? The size and speed could designed around the magic Reynolds number = 100,000 where the coefficient of drag drops precipitously. Dimpling could vastly extent the range of large and slow as well as small and fast radio controlled aircraft. A...

How does a person determine what the proper height of an engine should be when building an airplane? If a particular engine design mandates the prop is 4 inches, say, lower than where it would be with the engine originally installed, what effect will it have on handling, and what changes in...

I'm building a replica of a 1924 plane. Since it's a replica, it's not exactly an original design, but there are no plans or drawings, so I get to make up the dimensions (based on photographs of the original). :-) What I would like to end up with, besides a plane, is a set of plans that would be...

I had posted a link to a vid of a 701 weaving through the trees over on .piloting. At some point down the line I expressed interest in a VW powered 701. One guy said he figured a VW would melt down in an aircraft cowling when producing no more that 50HP. He provided a link to Bob Hoover's blog,...

El martes, 15 de octubre de 2002 a las 21:38:58 UTC-3, Joe Norris escribió: Omar Filipovic wrote: Does any of this actually apply to experimentals, especially those where the original builder is making the modifications? An FAA Form 337 is not used for repairs or alterations on...

Seems to me that some of the benefits of the constant speed prop were based on the limitiations of timing (ignition and valve) of the Lyco/Conti engines. If your engine was designed to have a large dynamic range of efficient operation, you won't need the articulated prop as much.

I notice that most auto engine conversions use a gear box between the engine and the prop. Why is that? Is it because an auto engine's peak HP is too high for a prop to swing? Is it because auto engines weren't designed to be pulled around by their crankshafts and don't have proper thrust...

My homebuilt's master contactor is going bad. Sometimes when I turn it on it doesn't make connection. It's got 1700 hours on it, so I'd just as soon replace it. But the way the builder wired it, he's has positive power from the battery going through the master switch to the small terminal on the...

G'day from Australia A friend of mine has purchased a Fisher Horizon 2 STOL that was made in the USA and imported into Australia. The manner in which some of the construction has been done is now causing him some concern. He has been in touch with the people that took over the factory, but he...

Some post-accident photos (no gore, thankfully) showing the RV and TBM Avenger were posted on a forum on Doug Reeves' RV website: http://www.vansairforce.com/community/showthread.php?t=9638 Really gives some perspective on the visibility, or lack thereof, that both pilots must have experienced.

I'm interested in building a Spratt 103, see www.spratt103.com. I like to hear from anyone with specific information about it's flight qualities, based on the actual experience of flying one or observing its flight. About 200 plans have been sold world wide and as it isn't a 10 year build, surely...

Hey guys i'm a new pilot that really wants to build his own craft. help me with this one issue. I want to use a chevy ls2 or ls7 as the power plant in my craft. now looking at everything including the hp/torque curves i've decided running the engine around 3100 rpm should give me around 250 hp...

I just don't get it. Can anyone successfully explain how flaperons work? Are they better or worse than seperate flaps? What are the pro's and con's? It seems to me if one fails you have no recovery. Lou

On Thursday, November 2, 2000 at 11:01:19 PM UTC-5, wrote: Are there any Loehle 5151 builders using a GEO 3 or 4 cylinder motor? I'm interested in how you built the mount. Thanks in advance, Bruce -- http://users.clas.net/~flyer --

All, This information may be well known but I felt compelled to pass it along. I've been searching for a Nicopress Swaging tool and choking on the prices at the typcial aircraft supply companies. Turns out that Lowes has a Campbell Nicipress tool, 1/16 to 1/8 of an inch for $24.95. The tool is...

A month or so back, I asked about re-setting the reading of a standard aircraft tach to reflect the time the airplane spent with a temporary replacement. Unfortunately, as it turns out, there was nothing wrong with my tach...or with the tach cable. The tach-drive section on the engine itself...

On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 03:50:42 GMT, "C.D. Damron" wrote: "Badwater Bill" wrote in message ... What a grand man, Jim Campbell is. I think I love him, just for what he is. Just for being a...

Hi, What is a good glue to use to attach plastic parts to bare fiberglass? This is to secure some cable clamps to the inside of a fiberglass glider. I'd rather buy a tube than a can... Thanks, Boris