RAHers Representative Steve Pearce (R-NM) introduced a bill in March (HR1117) to require that federally-assisted airports grant a 75 year lease to a person willing to construct a hangar on the airport. Current federal law states that the lease must be a "long-term" lease but doesn't specify...

From today's AvWeb: http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/596-full.html#191775 Spectrum's Plans To Redefine VLJs and New Materials And New Processes "Jones says he's confident the production aircraft will be close to its target empty weight of 3,700 lbs. although he won't say how much...

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82UL was developed several years ago, to be easily produced from automotive fuel. Instead of being produce by only one or two manufacturers as 100LL is, 82UL could be made by any oil company. This should make it cheaper to produce. 82UL is NOT a replacement for 100LL. It is my understanding that...

Does anyone know of a long nose vise grip plies that is bent 90 degrees? I have a needle nose pliers that is bent 90 degrees at the tips, but I sure could use a locking pliers with the same setup. Thanks, BJ

My Rotax 912 has begun to stumble intermittently at low and high power settings. I believe that I isolated the stumbling problem to the left ignition system and removed the double ignition coils, wires and boots. I checked everything for proper resistances according to the Rotax manual. ...

Ken Evoy must be bonkers - or the smartest marketer around. He's just spent three months writing a 224-page manual for affiliates, telling you, step-by-step, how to succeed with revenue sharing programs . . . And now he's giving it away. All you have to do to get the complimentary manual...

MS24593 is a flat head machine screw with a 6-32 shank/thread. In this application the diameter of the screwhead is important. I went to HD and bought a 6-32 machine screw to see what length I needed (the original having rusted beyond recognition). I compared the HD screw with the MS and noticed...

First time I've stumbled across one of these: Lift Reserve Indicator http://home.hiwaay.net/~sbuc/journal/liftreserve.htm "One of the AOA systems that has been around the longest is the Lift Reserve Indicator. This unit was developed in the 1970's and has been offered in a couple of different...

One of the wheels on my air compressor is at an angle. I removed it and the bolt/spindle and the inner and outer bushings wiggle. Anyone know if it is worth replacing these bushings and how to do it or should I just buy a wheel? - Mike

I really like the idea of building one of these. I'm in the dreaming stage right now.My brother was telling me he thought it would cost $10,000 to build one and I'm wanting some idea of the cost. I can do all the work; machining, welding, electical. I have a complete machine shop I can use and have...

Hi, guys: I got a problem about airfoil which puzzled me presently, for I am designing my midget, and for lack of wortmann laminar airfoil detailed data which I long forward, so I have to fall back on the naca 4412 temporarily, I found two naca reports, in which indicated that 4412 could reach 0.6...

While sipping my cold suds and laying on the beach, I had opportunity to watch the banner tows cruise up and down the strip. Looking at my fellow beach-goers, I noticed they stopped looking up at the tows after the first few have gone by. It was then, due to a seredipitous mixture of beer and...

Hello, I have a long term goal of making a small bush plane: 450lbs useful load, 35mph clean stall, 600 ft clear 50ft. I know there are quite a few designs out there, PA-11 Cub, Bushcaddy, Zenith CH701 to name a few that I'm kind of familiar. But here, I'm looking into the possiblity of working it...

The FAA is about to make it a whole hell of a lot harder for people to build safe amateur built aircraft. Richard VanGrunsven, founder of one of the most successful kit aircraft companies, has written up a warning and a call to arms about the issue. You can read it beginning on page 3 of this...

Samsung SC-MX10-XAA. Type that into Google, they'll show you a picture of it. But it is smaller than it looks -- it's about the size of a small Russet potato... about 5" long by 2.5" in diameter. Street price is about $180 (as of May 2008) If you're an accomplished videographer you'd never give...

Ron Lee's gorgeous 1996 RV6A is the latest addition to the Rec.Aviation "Rogue's Gallery". See it at http://www.alexisparkinn.com/rec_aviation.htm (Go to the "L" section to see Ron's cool bird...) What is this Rogue's Gallery? It's a picture webpage just for participants in the Rec.Aviation...

This really ****es me off because I put one of these in my aircraft on Tuesday. the guys locally are finding a consistent manufacturing fault in the chinese made Falcon Altimeters. the goss is that the altimeters are actually made internally with the quality of a swiss watch. I'm told that in all...

I sold my experimental airplane sometime ago but I'm looking at buying another one at this time. I always flew over cities and used my RV-6 just like I would any other airplane with a normal category airworthiness certificate. But, I remember reading something here once about some letter that we...

http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ccsshb/12cyl/ Rich "Mo' Powah" S.