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ian herdis wrote:You need a tube bender.

or this:
http://www.lasaero.com/site/products/ar ... =R042SD1CL
or this:
http://www.lasaero.com/site/products/ar ... =R03RDJXXX

I have unfortunate experience of the vicious suddenness of carb ice onset on a small Continental. Sounds like classic symptoms to me. You say it has only recently started and you've recently started using mogas. Why won't you see the connection? Our experience of mogas vs avgas in a Volksplane was m...

Does that improve the rigidity of the cockpit surround?

Just read the oil filter article in the mag. All good advice, but I have a couple of things to add. Regarding the modified pipe cutter filter opener mentioned: the original article was for car sized filters as fitted to Jabirus and slotaxes. It can be further modified to open aircraft sized filters....

I have a Stolp Starduster Too project on the go and I'm doing the tinwork around the cockpits. I have cut the panels for the cockpit openings and currently have bare aluminium edges. This is obviously unacceptable from a safety point of view, but also for long term durability as well. The 'Duster pl...

Sounds a much simpler option and I will probably stick with my panel mount switches too. My RV6 came with a multi-button grip but only the radio PTT actually used. The plane has electric pitch trim using a toggle switch on the panel (just by the throttle - ideal) and I considered putting control on...

...it was August 2011. Noooooooooooo! Can't be that long ago! Beginning to know how my folks felt when they used to say things like that! If I recall correctly there was an element of work-in-progress (or approval-in-progress) about the whole megajolt for aircraft project. Any chance of an update a...

Alan Kilbride wrote:I was sorry to see her go as I had a pile of fun flying it.

I miss it, although I didn't really fit in it properly. My partner in aviation crime does regret selling it, I believe.

Duncan must have sorted it very well to do 115mph straight and level.

- the Megajolt and the Leburg use identical Ford coil packs. Wasn't sure about the coils used by the Megajolt, but mostly agree about the Leburg. Why "mostly"? Because Dave Mickleburgh advised that it was possible to use 4 Honda (CBR600 or Fireblade) coils if you so wished. This saves weight over 2...

This is not an uncommon situation as far as I know. You just set the '180 degree out' ignition to fire the opposite two cylinders to the '0 degree' one, assuming wasted spark electronic ignition. Most electronic ignitions are wasted spark as it gets around the need to halve the crank speed, which th...

You could probably find an Evans VP1 that you could restore and learn a lot from: fabric, paint, engine, wiring, rigging and controls, undercarriage etc. And they don't have to be completely hideous and slow: https://www.caa.co.uk/applicationmodules/ginfo/ginfo_photo.aspx?regmark=G-BAPP&imgname=G-BA...

All the information I have, both from print and in conversations with owners, is that the Taylor (Monoplane) is pleasant and safe to fly. I think somebody is confusing the Taylor Monoplane with the Taylor Titch. The Titch has a terrible reputation - and I believe the stats bear it out. Very fast - ...

Jim Alex wrote:Polycarbonate is a no-no as it is almost unbreakable.

Unless exposed to petrol which makes it very breakable!

Van's Aircraft have issued two service bulletins for the tail section of several models of RV. As the owner of an RV6 I will, of course, be doing the inspections before I fly it again. Wondering, should any issues be found, what one would need to do, paperwork wise, should the remedial work specifie...

Definitely not flat up there: there's loads of lumpy bits you can crash into if you're not careful. I've heard that people flying up there over land often have lifejackets as the only flat bits to land on in an emergency are the lakes. Would have thought flying something with floats would be more ap...