Anybody know how the cylinder studs/ thru-bolts are located on the old E-185-225 series Cont. Engines ?? Usually one of 2 ways, either a bolt circle diameter with so many degrees offset from a horiz or vert C/L of the bore of the cylinder-----Or, rectangular measurements from a horiz. and /or...

I have noticed that a lot of panels look as though the gyros are not shock mounted. They appear to be mounted directly on a fixed panel. Is it advisable to shock mount them? I'm getting ready to start building my panel and need some advice. Thanks! David

We're going to be on scene this year providing daily reports and photographs from the Reno National Championship Air Races. If you want to keep up on what's going on and see if we can get some good shots to view, check us out at http://aafo.com/ We're headed down in two days to cover the...

I just put a good condition RICO VACS soaring variometer with speed to fly and audio up on ebay. Search for "RICO VACS" in the title and you'll get it. This was a very popular and high quality vario that is still a good instrument for the budget minded pilot. I have not used it, but I removed it...

Sport Aviation Magazines....Free, if you pick them up. I live near San Francisco. Or, if you pay postage, I will ship. This is a broken collection. I have 100 magazines between 1992 and 2004. Dale -- To e-mail me remove the obvious before @ and change sinuswave to sinewave.

Only a true newsman could capture Oshkosh as did Robert Eng for us this year! http://aafo.com/airshows/2005/oshkosh_airventure/ 56 photos with captions capturing the true feel of the event. Wayne Sagar All Aviation FlightLine OnLine http://aafo.com/

RAH=malicious gossip; howsomever, I got some good news for you. You can save about 25-30% on new parts for acft engines by shopping around. Use guggle. I won't tell you how to do it but you can. I did and it works but if I tell you and everybody else and his brother how, the company I...

Anyone have or know where to find plans for this homebuilt airplane? It was originally out in the 50's. Thanks, Rick Pellicciotti

I will be priming a lot of parts and wouild like to make it as painless a process as possible. I have heard that there are spray guns that can use a plastic bag to minimize clean up but I have not seen one. I would also like to be able to submerge the gun in a bucket of solvent between uses but...

And here I think it's a problem when I lose a fuel cap... http://tinyurl.com/7jw5b =========================== PLANE FLIES FOR TWO HOURS WITH WING MISSING 09:30 - 19 August 2005 A Dozy (Ireland) pilot flew his plane for two hours before he noticed that five-and-a-half feet of one wing had been...

Weather permitting, come on over and join us at Midland Michigan's Barstow airport (3BS) for a pancake breakfast. The flyer is at http://www.rogerhalstead.com/Bkfst_Sep_05.pdf (270K), or read about it in our September news letter. Go to http://www.rogerhalstead.com/1093News.htm select news...

Here's some news that recently came out: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7867 http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1439827.htm Apparently, soundwaves can help airflow stay near the wing and increase lift. This can help smaller aircraft to avoid stalling at lower airspeeds. Is this...

I accidently wrote my first post as a reply to another thread, so here it is again on its own. I have a pusher airplane with a nose oil cooler. I am replacing the existing heavy hydraulic type(rubber/braided steel) oil cooler lines with lighter metal lines. Either soft Aluminum or soft copper 1/2...

Ok, a question or 2 about the wings. I'm building a wooden aircraft that could go either fixed tri-gear or retract. I choose fixed seeing how this is my first plane to build and I wanted to keep it simple. The fuel was supposed to go behind the firewall but I choose to build tanks in each wing...

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I'll be a sumbitch, you are right. Here ya go... Noted French pilot Nicolas Charmont has installed 2 AMT Olympus turbines in his Cri Cri together with AMT on-board automatic start-up units and individual EDT's. The Cri Cri weighs 170 Kg, and should have enhanced performance withover 36 Kg of...

Does anyone have a drawing showing the layout of the cylinder base hold-down bolts/studsof the old Continental E-185-225 series ??.. Is it a bolt circle with degree spacing , or rectangular measurements taken from some reference point ??--( I need to shim my jugs out a tad.) Thanks in...

I'm looking at building a sport plane kit but unsure of what kit. I need 2 seats, preferably side by side I plan to use the geo G13 (100 to 120 HP) engine if possible It must be sport plane legal. It must be pretty fast build (Preferably under 600 hours if possible) anyone have any suggestions or...

I think bio-diesel is overblown. The premise of this stuff is to use recycled cooking oil. Even if every resturaunt in the world recycled its cooking oil, there simply isn't enough to meet the demand if that method were to become poplar.

http://down.westmont.edu/pipermail/aeronca/2002-June/011404.html A northwesterner is criminally cited for handpropping his aircraft without a competent person at the controls. Apparently old news but still salient.