My buddy Ray Jarvis has completed and flown his Airdrome Aeroplanes Replica Nieuport 28. It's full scale and is powered by a 9-cylinder 150 hp Rotec Radial engine. Its debut was the Gardner KS Gathering of Eagles last weekend. I had a ball shooting aerial photos from the front seat of a...

Is it possible to change the operating limitations of your homebuilt after it has been certified? Let me take the more extreme case... I was wondering, if one owned (or bought) an RV3, is it possible to change the operating limitiations to have a red line of 120 knots, and a maximum continous RPM...

I have come by a lathe that has some electrical problems. The unit has a 2 hp 3 phase 220 volt motor. One of the magnetic relays was burned out when I got the lathe. I replaces the relay, turned the switch on and the brand new relay burned up also. Though the lathe came with most of the tooling...

ET onboard a ship. Have decided after time to have own tools. Got them packed into one of those larger wheel-around, pull-the-handle-out check-in hard-shell Samsonites. Ends up being a bit heavy, cause of tool junkie genetic coding. Works great..... except when have to go up or down...

Yesterday I was talking to a friend who plans to power his single-seat slow flyer with an engine from a Citroen Visa. I suppose this engine (a linear descendant from the famous Citroen 2CV) is not well known in the US, it is an air-cooled 2-cylinder boxer, in this particular application it...

For all you guys and gals building a homebuilt plane DO NOT use a auto engine conversion or any other option that is not FAA certified, Ya see the feds and Lycoming have a lock on the market providing "quality and time tested powerplants". Let's see now. it all started a few years back when...

In article , "karel adams" writes: You sure you could satifsy both? After 50 years of flying?? not to mention ?? years of (---^h^h^h) ??? Karel (sorry just couldn't resist)

Hello All: I have 10-32 screws with 8s size Tennerman Washers as attach fittings. The cowling holes have worn slowly but surely and now I know it is time to fix this vibration problem. I like the size of the 8s but I suspect I really should use 10s. They are unpainted and not bonded to the cowling....

I have two tickets for all five days of the centential of flight (http://www.firstflightcentennial.org/december_celebration.html) The face value of the tickets is $50.00. (My wife says I can't go - I have a newborn!) The event is sold out (at leat the last day Dec. 17, 2003) So here are my...

Fellow came by the shop to borrow a Dutch Oven. He works at one of the local colleges and is a Boat Person rather than a Plane Person. Boat People usually takes their kitchen with him when they travel but he's taking a bunch of college kids over to Death Valley to count pup fish and the best the...

I have a finished CF sample, a common single-ply weave, that exhibits extreme stiffness, 'thin-ness' and is very lightweight, it looks dry. I have molded a part using a similar weave, single ply, and do not get the same stiffness. I can easily deform the finished part with a press of the thumb. I...

Hello, Has anyone looked at this engine for use on a plane? It looks to me like it might have possibilities. It's used in a bunch of different vehicles with different outputs from 240hp all the way up to 287hp due to different exhausts, intakes and computers (I think). Anyway the stats as...

the word I have is that a permit in UT appears be accepted in all other states that allow concealed carry. Looks like UT accepts others, but not vice versa. http://lisa.favorites.com/~cabrams/Reciprocity.html

I have a tin of hysol ea 9410 that I picked up form light miniature aircraft at least 10 yr ago and the base resin is pretty thick- have to put in boiling water to thin enough to extricate from the can . Was used to bond metal together at room temp. 9410 is not at the loctite (current maker...

Looking for anyone buying, selling, trading Capella kit parts. Respond to email address.

My A-65 had the lower half redone. At operating temp. and at idle, the oil pressure is certainly below 15PSI and may be below 10. I asked the company that did the work and they replied "we don't worry about low pressure at idle". Continental says a minimum of 10PSI. I'll get my A&P to put a real...

Several years ago, an individual here was selling custom made data plates for certain homebuilt models. Does anybody remember who this was and if so, provide current contact information? I couldn't find the old posts in the google...

I have a PA-28R-180 with a Lycoming IO-360 engine. I did install your Lasar ignition system 2 years ago and it did run without any problem just until recently. Since 2 months I am experiencing problems with the ignition. I have grounded the aircraft since then. My observations: Engine start is...

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I have a composite kit aircraft, and it is time to paint! But I just hate the idea of painting it WHITE (like most all the others). I understand that HEAT is a big factor in this decision, and that white attracts the least amount of heat which could disrupt the Epoxy over time. Since my plane...