We're gearing up for construction of our new "Oshkosh Suite" (at our aviation theme-suite hotel), and as part of the effort we're sorting/framing/shadow-boxing 25 years of personal Oshkosh memorabilia. An important centerpiece for the suite will be a montage of all the Oshkosh EAA sew-on patches. ...

Hi Folks! Anybody here have a sign shop or know about cutting vinyl letters? Local Yak owner wants his name printed under the cockpit's edge aka typical warbird style, except spelt in Russian. Letters about 1 inch high. We can handle the Russian language, no problem. But we can't paint very...

Hi, I would like to make professional looking placards for the switches and circuit breakes in my homebuilt. I have searched the 3M web pages for a product I heard they have, but have not been able to locate it. Does anyone have any ideas for making the placards and a source for the...

Whats' the minimum bend radius for 1/8 and 3/16" polycarbonate sheet?

Folks: I have a rather irritating fuel line situation that has several possible solutions, each more complicated and / or expensive than the last. Specifically I need a remotely mounted fuel cutoff valve, but it is so remotely mounted that the standard valve-on-a-long-ujoint solution is not going...

Some of the busiest flying fields here in San Diego county aren't airports. Although you can see them from the air or on Google's satellite shots, most of them don't even exist, according to the aviation bureaucracy. A couple of them are paved but the others are dirt, sod, gravel, or a dry lake...

Thinking about load testing one main gear assembly off the plane project anticipated for 1000 # gross and have two question areas. FIRST: FAR 23.725 provides a drop height range from 9.2 " to 18.7". With a 1000# gross plane, I think this calculates as 797 and 882# respectively on each...

For the folks who use Alclad Aluminum. Am I corrrect in that if you don't intend to paint it, it needs no additional coating? - Mike

January issue of Kitplanes. Upper left corner of contents page where it says page 34. Can someone id this plane? --Andy Asberry recommends NewsGuy--

Volkapalne VP2 unused plan give away, just pay post. S6

Yesterday, 12-10-06, a Rans S-6 went down near Taylorsville NC, close to where I work. Unfortunately, two died. Preliminary indications cite engine failure, and a steep nose down crash, while trying to return to the airport. Story at http://www.wsoctv.com/news/10505301/detail.html Also...

NEWSMAX reports, Dec 11. Chalmers "Slick" Goodlin, a landmark figure in American aviation history, passed away in October, just short of the 60th anniversary of the X-1 rocket plane's first flight. Goodlin flew America's first jet, the YP-59, and went on to log 26 flights on the X-1, second only...

I need to sell a picture I have of the original Skyblazers Signed by the team, (The only thing the first members signed showing them flying P-80's, (Not F-80's) . My grandfather passed it on to me but, I am in need of money right now, (son is at GSU and I am between Jobs). The Twin Patillo Brothers...

I wonder if you guys can answer a question about aircraft adhesive and techinques. I am considering the option of gluing aircraft plywood to a aluminum tube fuselage structure. After reading about properties of adhesives to perhaps accomplish this effort I stumbled upon T88. If I used such an...

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To All: A few days ago I responded to Lou's question about the cold weather performance of T-88... http://groups.google.com/group/rec.aviation.homebuilt/browse_thread/thread/0e40a97c3fdfa121 ....where in closing I said, "Marvelous as epoxies are they don't even come close to resorcinol when it...

Hello can someone please clear something up for me about the thrust line I am interested in knowing what changes will happen if? using a pusher type configuration for reference I notice that many longez type aircraft vary a bit where the engine is mounted in reference to the thrust line. few...

This just popped up on SalvageSale: http://www.salvagesale.com/showoffer.asp?o=21033&l=16457218 Looks like sales mockups of two small airplanes. The description is for an airplane and a car, but it looks to me like mockups of a two-seater airplane fuselage and a four-seater cabin. Judging by the...

Hi Group, for those of you that need a solution for storing sheet material (aluminium, plywood, whatever...) in your workshop, check out: http://ibis.experimentals.de/index.php Select menu option "Progress", then "Project preparation", then "Storage".