I am gathering the things I need to start building. Does anyone here have any experience with the portable oxy acetylene setups? Is the typical 20ft^3 Oxygen and 10 ft^3 acetylene configuration too small to be useful when building a fuselage/struts? How many times will you typically have to...

Considering using corlar epoxy primer on 4130 tube fuselage. Is it dope proof or specifically polytack proof? UV resistant and how hard and durable is it? Going on clean metal and peviously primed metal. Also wondering how glossy is it. Thanks Keith

I was talking to a fellow that had a hydraulic flap actuator (hand pumped) with a quick release return on a Top Cub. Anybody know of a good source for these hand pumps? Any listers used something similar for flaps and what did you think about it both in construction and function? I've thought of...

Read this today on AVWEB. What is the deal? http://avweb.com/newswire/11_19b/briefs/189753-1.html The FAA is underscoring regulatory requirements for pilots who fly passengers in homebuilt aircraft. A new notice would restrict them to flying passengers only in planes in which they are qualified...

I see via ANN that Zoom has been served his annual non-invitation!

Does that yahoo still hang out here? I needed himn last weekend - of course I didn't know that until the weekend rolled around - so now I'm looking to be prepared - like a boy scout ya know!!!! Carl "almost done" Johansson

As a private pilot, I make frequent use of the NWS's Aviation Digital Data Service (see 1). I especially like their "Java Tools" graphic presentations of METAR, TAF, and AIR/SIGMET data. Senate Bill S. 786 (see 2) could well kill such NWS weather presentations in favor of private sector...

This coming weekend, May 21 - 22, there will be a fly-in pancake breakfast -- and every kind of testosterone-rush toy -- here in Iowa City, at the Eastern Iowa Big Kids Toy Show! We're talking aircraft, warbirds, motorcycles, boats, RVs, Humvees, high performance cars -- you name it, if it's cool,...

If I read the limitations correctly for my homebuilt, it looks like aerobatics are out. The verbiage looks like the kind of boilerplate that is used in all cases. So, are there special airworthyness versions for aerobatic capable homebuilts? How is this handled with the inspector? thanks, tom...

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...

Rats. I just called LEI Extras to buy a database update for our Lowrance Airmap 100. They said they no longer offer GPS updates for that unit. Database has gotten too big. They offer a rebate on newer units if you turn your old one in - $100 off the Airmap 500 $175 off the Airmap 1000 $225 off...

Anypne looking for a cheap Aviation Handheld Moving Map system? There is one going at: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5774964122 Just add a GPS and you are away! :-)

I'm playing with a mechanism that involves a piece of nylon rod rotating inside an aluminum tube. Is lubrication required and if so what kind? Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Jim and others interested, I previously said that normal voice into the mikes on the headsets I installed in my new homebuilt wouldn't easily break the squelch of the newly built RST-442 Intercom I had also installed. Yesterday a friend used his Sigtronics headset for the flight and the squelch...

I have a complete Flightmaster Psion handheld computer with the carrying case and the thermal printer with cables. Pete McMaster used to support the database updates. Are they still available? I may be selling it on eBay. Any idea as to what it migh be worth? It works perfectly, as far as I...

Can anyone recommend any good articles or books about fowler flap design? Thanks Neal

I have some 4130 steel parts that slide in other 4130 steel parts, but only occasionally. Most of the time the parts just sit around waiting to be used. What is the best to keep the surfaces from rusting? Paint is out, as it would clog the mechanism. -- This is by far the hardest lesson about...

Thanks all on the help with my 182RG problem. I now know where to have the ammeter repaired. On the original trouble which was a wildly fluctuating ammeter, I found an easy way to jumper the "B" terminal of the regulator to the buss. Trouble was gone. I next jumpered the over voltage sensor by...

Anyone else see this? I told you this Engine was Gonna Kick Ass! .. I know.. no one likes an 'I told you so'.. sorry... http://www.deltahawkengines.com/perfor07.shtml 2.5 Gal/hr @ 11,500 ft @ 2000 RPM / 135 Knots in a Velocity W/ 160 hp engine thats about... what? 60% to 65% power..? So ( and...

Guys, this is pretty much farewell. As many of you know, Jane and I have been planning for some time to do missionary work in the Philippines. We are finally leaving on Saturday for two weeks of training and then directly from there to Laoag. We will not be back until December of 2006. I don't...