Dear Friends, Remember last fall, when I was ****in' an' moaning about my email problems? Remember how I resolved the problems by purchasing my own domain name? Well, the small but reliable internet service provider that provided my domain name has been purchased by a large, unreliable company...

Dear Colleagues and friends The University of Minho, in Portugal and Dare Institute in Cambridge, MA are inviting potential participants from various backgrounds for an online study on how adults differ in their reasoning about aging and problems. The purpose of this study is to explore an...

These pages regularly mention books on aircraft design by one Tony Bingelis. Has anyone the exact references for these, preferably ISBN numbers? Apart from the use of imperial/US measures, would these be as much use in Europe as in (their native?) USA? Any other study books to recommend? PS I...

We're just a few weeks away from America's only fly-in pool party at our aviation themed hotel, the Alexis Park Inn & Suites! We're located right next to Rwy 25 in Iowa City, IA (KIOW). Here is your official invitation: http://www.alexisparkinn.com/iowa_city_pool_party.htm Heading to OSH from...

I've been chasing down some tach-indication problems lately, and as part of it, I installed a borrowed tach in the Fly Baby. I'm ready to put the original tach back in, but would like to change the hour meter to reflect the time that was flown with the temporary tach in place. The tach is a...

Friday, July 17th from 4PM to 8PM and Saturday, July 18th from 10AM - 4PM With dozens of manufacturers and owners exhibiting, the Mid Atlantic Pilots Association's Second Annual Light Sport Jamboree will be held at Essex County Airport (aka Caldwell/CDW) in Fairfield, New Jersey. "Jambo" will be...

Have you been searching for that special gift, or that cure to what you really need? Well, look no further! Today for the first time in America, we are offering the revolutionary "STUPID CRAPP"! The "Stupid Crapp" has been sold all over Europe, Canada, and South America and is now available to...

The big problem here is that air cooled engines are different from water cooled engines, and while we can find lots of good information of breaking-in a newly assembled engine, it turns out that 99% of it has to do with WATER COOLED engines. Which turns out to be Bum Dope when you're talking about...

In responding to the anonymous poster's load test anxiety, I let the facts run away from me. Here is the test question: You have supported a 1000 lb airplane upside down, and wish to apply a 4g load test. How much weight do you add to the wings etc.? .. ..

I was browsing with homebuilt for a keyword, and ran into that delightful web site that features Goat, Bug, and kindred ultralight gliders or as he prefers to think of them, flying chairs. It's not so often you run into free for downloading drawings, in various standards. Drawn beautifully, and...

I was getting ready to install a replacement manifold on the old Mercury and it occurred to me I ought to be pretty sure my torque wrench didn't strip the aluminum threads. The Snap On dial wrench hasn't been recalibrated for 30 years and the Craftsman torsion bar wrench is too clumsy to get to...

I'm looking for a simple design for nose wheel steering for retractable gear. Any ideas? Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

To All: Recent posts about the Pobjoy radial engine have generated a number of private messages which indicate some subscribers to this Newsgroup lack a basic understanding in how the Internal Combustion engine actually works. For example ALL engines have some degree of overlap in their cam...

I went to visit a fellow Tcraft owner this morning and noticed he had the tail up on an inverted bucket. Why? He said it was to keep mice out. Looked pretty precarious. Anyone know of a better way other than a rat snake or a cat? - Mike

Today I was asked by a friend to go with him and take a look at an unfinished homebuilt project. The owner started this project back before 1986 and past away a couple of years ago. Not much work was accomplished. The project is a Mitchell Super Wing Model U-2. From my quick review I saw two spars,...

I recently bought a set of RevMaster VW I beam rods, they have 3/8 black rod bolts with no name on them. I forgot what the torque spec was and called RevMaster today but Joe was gone until Monday. Does anyone know what the torque spec is. I searched the posts and found no info and also searched...

In keeping with Bob's promotion of "flying on the cheap" I offer the following: It is pretty obvious that this is a cheap way of cutting metal, but has anyone run across a way of using this technology to weld? If so it might open up more options for the impoverished home...

I am planning on building a plane that is towed behind a boat. Because of the low speed (25mph stall) I am planning on using a high lift airfoil. Some airfoils with high coefficients of lift a FX72150B (2.0), FX73CL3(2.25), GOE225(1.9), GOE226(1.9), GOE234(2.0), GOE243 (2.0), GOE244(2.0),...

I want to use some SA361 and SA362 strap cable ends (like Wicks part number SA361-2) for 1/16" and 3/32" cable. The balls need to be swaged to the cable, but I can't find any info on the tool to do it. Anybody know about this? Thanks in advance, Jerry

Previously, I knew of only one other CH-801 crash resulting in fatalities. Here's one that just happened, and as far as I can tell, had they been doing testing "by the book" I think only one fatality would have resulted, all else being unchanged: ...