I am trying to buy a piece of property that will allow me to have a 3000' (or so) grass runway. We would build a house on the property that would be our only residence. I have been looking around for some home plans that incorporate a hangar attached to the home, but have not had much success. I...

RAH has become BORING... no one with any interesting posts or questions. BWB has been gone for well over a year and hadn't posted for a long time before that but NO ONE has stepped up and filled the gap. I know Billy had ****ed off a lot of people but at least he got people thinking and...

A month or so back, I asked about re-setting the reading of a standard aircraft tach to reflect the time the airplane spent with a temporary replacement. Unfortunately, as it turns out, there was nothing wrong with my tach...or with the tach cable. The tach-drive section on the engine itself...

Jim "Captain Zoom" Campbell and ANN entered 2007 with three ongoing lawsuits. By the end of the year, all were dismissed. Most of the action occurred over the past five months, and I've held off posting updates since things have been fluid. It's been a month since the last court order, so the...

CNN reports Steve Fossett is missing. " Fossett took off from a private air strip known as Flying M Ranch, near Smith Valley, 30 miles south of Yerington, Nevada, on Monday, with enough fuel for four to five hours of flight, according to the Civil Air Patrol. Yerington is south of Carson City,...

I have listed another aircraft on ebay for one of my airport naighbors, this one is a 1966 Cessna 172G with 795 SMOH, in annual and ready to fly right now. This is NOT a show quality plane, it DOES have major damage history, and it AIN'T perfect. It is not embarrassing in any way, it's just a cheap...

I'm looking to tow my plane to the airport. I've seen aircraft towed on their own wheels. I called the local police department and they said I had to use a trailer. Does anyone know the "road rules" for towing aircraft to the airport? I tried googling for federal or state (Maine) regulations...

I look at all the plans on offer for building aircraft and not one of them ever includes any of the structural calculations. Dont you guys ever feel totally unnerved by the fact that you have no real idea of just where the strengths and weaknesses lie in a design? If you cock up something during...

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 just read in the newspaper that John Walton, the billionaire son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, was killed in a homebuilt airplane? That got me thinking to look for a NG that might be dedicated to this activity, and I found this one. This is all new to me, quite honestly, and disturbing. ...

Jim Stephenson was our guest speaker at the club's February meeting. Jim gave an informative presentation and answered a lot of questions. I posted the audio from the presentation on the Flying Gator's website. http://www.flyinggators.com -- Florida Flying Gators...

I sort of feel like the Harold Stassen of the EAA election process, but here we go again. In 1997, I ran for the EAA Board Of Directors and got some 700 of you to email me your proxies. The vote was 700 to 35,000 for the proxies that EAA held for the current board member candidate. (I ran in...

If you've looked outside and found a rain of frogs, don't worry, it's not Ragnarok. Barnaby Wainfan has updated the Facetmobile web page. http://members.aol.com/slicklynne/facet.htm The best part is a study he's just written for NASA on a theoretical composite super-Facetmobile as a Personal Air...

Recently I posted some questions regarding this issue. After some experimentation, it appears that LEDs and inexpensive strobes are indeed a feasible option for experimental a/c. Following a presentation at our recent EAA meeting, our most senior DAR liked the mock-ups so well that he will...

In an earlier post I read somewhere that the pulse jet is a device that converts fuel into noise. Someone else had suggested firing 2 engines 180 degrees out of phase with each other to cancel the sound. If the 2 engines were stacked one over the other, then you might actually be able to cancel a...

Hello All, I am strongly considering the RV-7a and am interested in knowing the dimensions of the baggage area behind the seats. Thanks David

I'd be interested in any schemes you may have developed for pre-heating your engine. One idea I heard was to use flex ducting to direct car exhaust into the cowling; that does present CO concerns, but on could leave the a/c doors open. - Mike

Hello All, This question is regarding Canadian regulatory issue with importing a Halon fire extinguisher. I'm building an RV and am considering fire extinguisher options. Was about to buy a Halon 1211 2lb fire extinguisher on ebay until I looked up the legalities of importing it to Canada. Seems...

One of our Fly Baby restorers is painting his aircraft with latex house paint. He's been posting his progress to the Fly Baby mailing list, and is allowing me to repost his messages to my web page: http://www.bowersflybaby.com/tech/latex.html Ron Wanttaja

This may sound like a stupid question; I realize the prop can only turn at a certain speed to avoid transonic effects at the tips and has to be turned with a certain torque to transmit the power needed/ produce enough thrust. So far so good. But why does the torque have to be produced by the...