Anyone see the homebuilt jet on the news over the weekend? They state that it took him 8 years to build. They also showed an in-cockpit video of him almost destroying it in 8 minutes. He allegedly did some taxi tests and then flew into the wild blue yonder for a short hop. Too much aileron in a...

I have a question some of you Epoxy builders might know. Is Cotton Flox okay to use as a structural filler in vinyl ester resin?. And if so, why is it not called for to be used in it? Mostly, micro balloons, cabosil, and milled fibers are used in vinyl ester, but in epoxy they use cotton flox. I...

Hi group I built a Ragwing RW-6 and was thinking of using 1972 Evinrude 437cc engine, rebuilt of course, from a Evinrude TW-30-Q snowmobile. It's a nice looking twin apposed cylinders But I think might only be 30hp. Does anyone know anything about this engine, and can the hp be...

for composite aircraft that have already been completed, is there a way to release static charge so the plane can be blessed in IFR operation? Apparently this was a prob with early Katanas.

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Rainy day, so a little surfing to see where what's new in the tech world. On my IO-360 hombuilt, I'm looking to replace my cable driven tach (currently with an angle drive adapter at each end) with an electronic one. Perused the UMA tachs at Aircraft Spruce, then ended up at www.remarkind.com...

ATC has been complaining on and off about my radio being "weak", "garbley" and just about every other word that describes a bad radio. The #1 Com is relatively new, but the airplane is old. I tried the light bulb trick as described in Jim's article, using the light bulb as a simple wattmeter...

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