Can a GPS with compass, heading & groundspeed capability be used legally in lieu of a separate compass and airspeed instruments on an experimental homebuilt airplane? Or at least in lieu of the separate compass? Thanks

The Oshkosh Bound '04 posters are up for downloading and printing to your heart's content. Also up are a simplified version of the Ripon-Fisk VFR procedures for your dining and dancing pleasure. www.rstengineering.com at the bottom of the page. Note that the easily remembered colored Fisk...

hope to meet some of you at the FAA Aviation Safety Center Sun n Fun complex. Sport Pilot Seminar & Fly-in information link http://jerryrooks.tripod.com/index.41.jpg -- Have a good day and stay out of the trees! See ya on Sport Aircraft group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sport_Aircraft/

Good morning all, We have just returned from the "Flight for Sight" Adventure around region Queensland (Australia) raising around $50,000 for charity in a Sinus and Virus motorglider. To enjoy our adventure please click the following...

I am doing wet layup in a covoluted mold using "porous teflon coated glass peel-ply" between the lamnate and the breather. The peel-ply material is not at all conformal and the pleats/overlaps are interfering with resin takeup. Is there any other POROUS peel-ply material that is more conformal,...

Homebuilt twin-engine composite amphibian had a "Spruce Goose moment" a week or two ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHc5U7VPnmU (BTW, for those who are wondering: It's a Pacific Northwest clam, pronounced "Gooey Duck.") http://www.gweduc.com/

I am looking for a source for aluminum inspection hole covers and backing rings for metal wings. I could make them, but would be nice to find some ready to install. TIA Mike

Hello Torque curve page 6 http://www.subaru.fr/special/pdf/documentation_diesel_lo_08.pdf by -- Volem rien foutre al païs! Philippe Vessaire Ò¿Ó¬

I'm wanting to lay my seat back further in an existing pitts S1-S. This would require moving the tube at the top of the seat back, back about 2". This member is 3/4 x 0.035 and about 22" long. I was thinking to run 4" long gussets back to the original attachment point, creating a C shaped...

Hi, Here is a new design challenge for those of you with homebuilts with all the bells and whistles. The 2004 Toyota Prius hybrid car has a Denso electrically powered air conditioning compressor that apparently does not need to be mounted on the engine. This offers the possibility of reasonably...

INVITATION International Dutch Homebuilders Fly-in 15 - 16 - 17 august 2008 Midden Zeeland (EHMZ) Holland (1000 meter gras runway) Avgas, Mogas and Jet A1 Musselmeal BBQ

Gene Littner was an aeronautical engineer who has served as the interpreter and distributor for Piel aircraft plans in North America. In addition, he designed and built several aircraft. He passed from this vale of tears on the evening of June 1st. The Emerauders mourn his loss. One of the group...

perhaps you should boycott your computer? it does have Israeli components - or is that maybe a bit inconvenient?

Windsocks , 60 inch long,well made, bright colors of red,white and blue combo.sensitive to light breezes , yet strong enough for heavy wind, no such thing as too many windsocks. !! $ 15. for one or $ 25 for two which includes priority mail shipping to you . Check, cash ,or M.O. Airscrew...

A few questions for any Europa builders out the 1) what is the monowheel retract mechanism? (electric, manual, ??) 2) how hard would it appear to modify the baggage compartment with a ski tube? Golf bags even? 3) I know there's no published TBO, but how is the maint experience on the Rotax...

I just read in the newspaper that John Walton, the billionaire son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, was killed in a homebuilt airplane? That got me thinking to look for a NG that might be dedicated to this activity, and I found this one. This is all new to me, quite honestly, and disturbing. ...

As most of you know, the "Rogue's Gallery" is a picture website created solely for the use of Rec.Aviation pilots. Here we can all post pictures of our beautiful aircraft, so that the rest of us can drool all over them! :-) Here are the February...

Anyone have a Reduction drive for a VW type I engine they are not using? I am in search of a bargain or swap for one to cut a few cost on my Homebuilt project. Please Contact me at allail at comcast dot net replace the "at" with a @ and replace the "dot" with a "."

"I read your posts about a survival rifle and lemme tell you, you just don't understand the modern Ami-rican mind. What you want is THIS (shows me a rusty 'Daisy' 'Red Ryder' BB gun). Now this here's a BB gun. If you lived in the right part of Ami-rica during the right TIME to be living there,...

On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 09:01:09 -0000, "karel adams" wrote: :dear all, : :what is the blue foam around which composite parts are built? :is it polyurethane? what brand names does it carry in europe? It is absolutely NOT polyurethane. Polyurethane will release...