Last year, after Oshkosh, someone posted a web site that had a very nice collection of photos in a slide show sort of format. They showed, in part, the planes around his in the show plane parking area. One of the photos was a DC 3 I believe firing up its' engines with a great cloud of smoke. I...

The upcoming North American Model Engineering Society Expo in Toledo, Ohio (April 18 and 19) is going to have a live demonstration of the sand casting process. I have this from the fellow in charge of scheduling the seminars although it does not yet show in the schedule. If you are in the midwest...

Oshkosh photos can be seen at http://neme-s.org/Oshkosh_2007/oshkosh_2007.htm This year a friend from the New England Model Engineering Society joined me for the trip to OSH. His first time visit to the big show and it was neat to see the reactions and enthusiasm from a first time visitor. Our...

After leaving OSH I picked up my wife at Midway airport in Chicago. First airport i have ever visited where I could drive around it. Drive down one side, turn left and repeat two more times and you are back where you started. Anyway, on to the story, So, there i was checking into a Hampton Inn in...

A number of yearago I took a welding workshop at the Hampton NH airport. I believe that it was put on by Aircraft Srpuce but won't swear to that. Anyway the instructor was a fellow from Georgia and i can't remember his name now. He usually has a booth in the Fly Market at OSH selling welding...

I have a vinyl cutter that will do the 12" letters called for to do N numbers but wonder if there is a TrueType font that meets the specifications of the FAA. That is 12" high, width 2/3 of height, thickness 1/6 of height etc. Any suggestions gratefully relieved! Errol Groff Instructor, Machine...

A photo essay of my visit to the Experimental Aircraft Association AirVenture Museum has been posted at http://newenglandmodelengineeringsociety.org/EAA%20Museum%2008_2003/1.htm Errol Groff Instructor, Machine Tool Department H.H. Ellis Tech 613 Upper Maple Street

I was reading the FAQ for experimental aircraft today and noticed that one question dealt with training and testing in experimental aircraft. One portion of the test deals with stalls and since canard don't stall like normal aircraft, when I read this I wondered if the test could even be...

Nicolas Charmont equipped a Cri-Cri homebuilt with two AMT Olympus turbojets each producing 51 lbf of thrust that were originally designed for model airplanes and it flies at 130 mph. I have since read about another company, FTT (www.fttinc.com) that has an engine for UAV's producing 37 lbf of...

Curious to know what engines cost, I was searching on eBay for o-360 engines and came across a listing for a Lycoming O-360-A1D Experimental engine. I thought, since Lycoming's O-360's are used in production airplanes, that these engines have to hold FAA non- experimental status. I know that...

In the thread I started about the 700 mile commuter airplane someone suggested getting a used Long-EZ. (I would like to point out that my dream of flying began the day I was much younger when I saw picture in a late '80's National Geographic of two EZ's and a Viggen flying in formation so Rutan's...

I have a firm opportunity to take a much higher paying job and expand my education but taking the family might be difficult. If I have to leave them I'd like to find some way to fly myself back and forth for frequent visits for the 4-5 years I will be there. Flying commercial is not an option as...

This past weekend I was doing my weekly trips around the pattern at the Covington, GA airfield (9A1.) While I was there, an experimental was doing some general flying around, including turning base, and then final as though landing but simply flew down the runway and never actually touched down....

Browsing controller.com I noticed that there is a category for homebuilt/experimental aircraft. My limited understanding of homebuilt aircraft is that it is an experimental plane, built for the pleasure/education of the builder. The builder of said plane, being the mfr, may work on it or an A&P...

I searched controller.com for lancair and found an entry that says "Professionally built." Now I know that a homebuilt owner does not have to build the entire thing themself but I thought it still had to be an amateur undertaking. How does this pass muster with the FAA?

I've been offered some spruce for spars that's pretty much perfect in every way except there's 21 rings per inch instead of the recommended 12-15. Good stuff or no? I don't really see the problem with finer grain spruce and in fact, can't even remember where iread it's advisable to use 12=15...

Is there an easy way for a novice to check an old antenna? thanks et

I'm getting a high freq. noise when I press the PTT with the headphones and mic plugged in. With the mic unplugged it 's ok. With a handheld mic it's ok. Tried a different headphone, still noisy. I grab the mic wire and the noise goes away. Continuity cks ok in mic wire. What am I...

All this talk about antennas got me thinking about my install. I have a Glasair with the antenna in the aft fuse. mounted on an aluminum ground plane. Should this be connected to the a/c ground? Ed

I have a radio question. Glasair 1TD with Icom radio, older headset. When the engine is running and charging 14.5 volts the radio howls when I transmit. Engine off, battery voltage, no noise. If I put a small screwdriver in the small hole in the headset and turn it down 1/2 turn, no noise. ...