Yesterday, we departed Falcon Field, South of Atlanta (also the home of Aircraft Spruce East) and noticed traffic at about 10 O'clock high. At first, I thought it was one of the Diamond Eclipse trainers that routinely fly out of Falcon. Low wings with a high aspect ratio, skinny aft fuselage,...

I use 1011 pigeons to carry my plane, works great !

The Eastern Iowa Big Kids Toy Show will be held at the Iowa City Airport (KIOW) THIS coming weekend (May 20-21), both Saturday AND Sunday -- and it promises to be a lot of fun! Starting at 7 AM, we've got fly-in pancake & sausage breakfasts going BOTH mornings. There will be tons of cool "big...

I'm looking for a timer with a specific functionality. I want to be able to set the thing to turn on an electrical appliance at a set time, then turn it off after a selectible time. I don't want the thing to come on again until I tell it to. Not one day later or 7 days later.The application is...

Hi All, There are many homebuilts where the designer intends that the fabric be attached to the wings solely by gluing. Aircraft such as the Corby Starlet, Jodel D-18, Kitfox etc. These aircraft all use wider rib cap strips than is normal to provide a large area for the glue to adhere to. This...

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 would like to have a packaged plastic case tool kit similar to some being offered by Sears, Costco and others. However I don't need all the metrics offered by the others. I would like to have standard and deep 6pt. sockets in 1/4 drive and 3/8 drive sizes from 3/8 thru 3/4, combination...

Some of the welding manuals I have say that a certain amount of undercut is inevitable. Certainly in examining the fuselages of some factory aircraft I've seen some shockingly large errors like this in the finished welds. On many of my practice wleds, particularly on tubing clusters, an...

I am seeking advice about mixing and storing epoxy. I started my first wooden rib last night after weeks of thinking, planning, building jigs, cutting gussets, testing, rebuilding jigs..... I decided to use epoxy for a number of reasons. The problem is mixing small enough quantities reliably. I...

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It gets quite in here around flyin time...

Thinking of building. Have been looking around and not found the kind of selection I though was available. Found Zenith, Sonex and Vans. Of the three, I'm looking a little harder at the two seaters from Vans (RV-7 and -9) and Zenith (Zodiac XL). Obviously different performance but costs don't...

Got a pair of fuel-level senders and the cork floats have lost some of whatever it was that was painted on them. These will be in tanks with automotive gasoline. What should I use to seal them?

Jim Weir, See link. Why would the FAA get involved? http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=90973&item=4519498097&rd=1 tw

I tried to buy one, but they were a little bit too expensive. But I want to start my own airline and need a 747.Can I buy a budget-747 with wood and some old parts?

I'm looking for a simple flight planning program or link to do some long cross country, short leg vfr flying. Something simple, without weight and balance computation or having to put in fuel burn and power setting. Don't need any graphics. Just a flight log type that uses an airport...

The generator on my C-85 is dead (according to a local shop). Unfortunately, our shop used to be helpful in pointing out the problem, but has now succumbed to liability fears. We don't know if it's the brushes or the armature. We'll try replacing the brushes first. Does any one know a good place...

I just got this one off the EAA Hotline. It seems that some noise Nazis in MA are trying to do an end run around the Federal preemption of aviation regulations by suing individual pilots who fly near their property. " AVIATION COMMUNITY RESPONDS FAVORABLY TO AFSA --- The American Free Skies...

If you like bowling then you may like to try aero-bowling. We are adding a new event to our annual Fly-in. Along with our usual events such as dead stick landing and bomb drop we are having aero-bowling this year. I have watched some folks try it and it is very challenging as well as funny to see...

(sanman) wrote in message ... I was reading about inflatable wings: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/plane-inflatable-wing-01a.html http://www.ilcdover.com/EngineeredInfl/inflatwing.pdf and I wondered why these...