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"pac plyer" wrote in message
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But one thing bugs me, and that is: How come Juan never flys his
creations?

Since you asked nicely, I will tell you.

-5B #1 was bought from a Idaho NG officer who had bought it from the
original builder. Had a great time tracking down the person I bought it from
when the original builder told me my seller had never paid for the airplane
and he would not give me title until he got his money. He was really cool
about it, and when I told him where he could find the lowlife, we caught up
with him in mid-summer weekend warrior refresher. His CO scraped the fluff
of his carpet with his ass and he coughed up the money. I finished the
fuselage and was about ready to start installing the landing gear, when it
was sold because Eagle hired me to work management in Fort Worth and would
not pay to ship the bird _or_ the tools to Texas. I had already paid a
couple thousand in taxes and shipping and wasn't about to do it again. So I
sold it to an IA in PR who runs a very successful NDT shop and hasn't taken
it a paragraph further in the plans. It took me over a year to round up
enough money to put a DEPOSIT on another airframe, and lets not talk about
how long it took me to fill up a toolbox again.

-5B #2 was the old N22TR, one of the first -5's to fly. After Ted Rogers
passed away it bounced around the country until it landed in the hands of a
genius by the name of Tom Johnson, designer of the only skirtless hovercraft
that can climb hills at 70 mph, among other _way cool_ hardware sitting in
his back yard near Oakland. He was the first to put a Rotax engine in a -5,
a 532. He partnered with Keith Hinshaw for that one. They took that engine
out and installed the first prototype of the AMW-225-3 but just as they were
almost ready to fly the Rogers' estate lawyer adviced the widow about the
word "liability" and she ordered the plane destroyed. Tom put it away for
some years until she passed away, and then I got a hold of it. It became
N522PR. I spent a lot of time restoring and upgrading it with what little
money I could must out of an Eagle salary. The engine was completely
overhauled and upgraded by the folks at 2SI, and I had them put in an
Airflow Performance mech fuel injection system, upgraded the landing gear,
bought the SuperSpar upgrade, designed and built a completely new panel,
etc. It was sold when I got the opportunity to buy a -5J built in Australia
by a CASA DAR. I sold it to a Citation/Lear ambulance driver in Spain, and
bought the jet with that money and some stock options I had laying around.

Immediately after I bought the jet, and one day before I was supposed to fly
my first Angel Flight mission (terminal pancreatic cancer), I went down for
the count with acute pancreatitis and woke up 10 days later and 55 lbs
lighter, with my tongue split open and tubes in places I didn't know I had
orifices. That was Nov of 01. AOPA Escrow had a great time trying to track
me down to complete the transaction. They thought I was dead (and little did
they know that they were almost right, I came this close to going the way of
Meigs). I was not able to do a damn thing to it until March of 02, when the
last of 5 tubes was finally pulled out of my abdomen and the large slices of
my side had closed up. The plane was damaged in transit. I talked the
insurance company into bringing the builder here (first trip to the US).
Since then I've been working to make the aircraft airworthy. I am done with
all items on my list except W&B and CG, and getting the hang of setting the
fuel controller to induce the appropriate misting from the engine injectors.
It also took me MANY months just to get some information on the engine,
enough to order a custom N1 RPM and be able to operate it safely.

And of course, I lost my medical and it took me until june of 03 to get it
back.

I'm not in your league when it comes to pilot experience, but I've paid my
dues since 1974, when I worked as a line boy in exchange for training in
Grumman trainers and a few hours in a Pitts S2A. Since then I've flown... I
guess some 20-25 types of aircraft, from C150's to... well, some things I'm
not supposed to say I was allowed to fly when I was in the Marines.

Juan

And of course, I lost my medical and it took me until june of 03 to get it
back.


Life is ridiculously short isn't it? Just when you start having real
fun, something like this crops up.

Congrads on getting your medical back. Hope that airshow food doesn't
do that to you again. ;-) Good luck on everything.

pacplyer

"pac plyer" wrote in message
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Life is ridiculously short isn't it? Just when you start having real
fun, something like this crops up.

Well, yes and no. I expect to be retreaded and thrown back on the road.
Everything I see around me tells me there's no way we're here for a one-way
trip and poof, end of story. The Hindi have it right, IMO, except for this
idea that we can come back as ants and we shouldn't whack cows, cut them up
and throw them on the grill.

Congrads on getting your medical back. Hope that airshow food doesn't
do that to you again. ;-) Good luck on everything.

Thank you. Same to you.

As to the food, I learned my lesson. I cook my own now.

Juan

or Walt? Who's the best pilot? We'll, you're looking at him!
:-D
(notice, I purposely kept BWB out of the competition.)

Thanks for keeping me out of the contest. Hell, I'm just a light
aircraft driver with 5000 hours in all kinds of **** from gliders to
hot air balloons and seaplanes to helicotpers. I think the only
civilian rating I don't have is BLIMP. Ha Ha Of course there are
hundreds of type ratings I don't hold.

Never flew the big iron. I spent this weekend flying helicopters all
over the ****ing place...logged 12 hours in choppers just Friday, Sat
and Sun.

For Juan, I was at French Valley airport in the R-44 on Friday evening
taking a fuel filter to a buddy stranded there in his MD-500 and saw
a BD-5J mounted on a pole in front of the main terminal building. It
had the thrust reversers opened up and looked to me to be a kit that
nobody completed. Looked good too. Someone might buy that thing and
finish it.


O.K, seriously, my guess is that Walt has more stick time, if he
wasn't just a crew chief or something, and Juan is an accomplished
builder and aspiring driver. But one thing bugs me, and that is: How
come Juan never flys his creations? I mean it would make a great
story for his writing gig. Medical?
It's worth answering to get the jackel pack off his back.

I can't seem to finish my project by the way. I think I'll just have
to stick it on a pole or something. :-(


See above!

BWB


Best wishes guys,

pacplyer

(p.s: Walt, what seat did you fly in?)

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 05:24:18 GMT, "Juan E Jimenez"
wrote:


"pac plyer" wrote in message
. com...

Life is ridiculously short isn't it? Just when you start having real
fun, something like this crops up.

Well, yes and no. I expect to be retreaded and thrown back on the road.
Everything I see around me tells me there's no way we're here for a one-way
trip and poof, end of story. The Hindi have it right, IMO, except for this
idea that we can come back as ants and we shouldn't whack cows, cut them up
and throw them on the grill.

Congrads on getting your medical back. Hope that airshow food doesn't
do that to you again. ;-) Good luck on everything.

Thank you. Same to you.

As to the food, I learned my lesson. I cook my own now.

Juan



Yeah, that goes double for me fella. Congrats on getting that medical
back. ****ing doctors. I hate like hell to think that some ****ing
Medical Doctor has to sign me off to be a piltot every year. Some
****ing doctor determines whether I can fly or not. That's bull ****.
I'm going to fly no matter what some ****ing doctor ever says. I'll
find a way, even if I have to sign everything I own over to someone
else so I have no assets to lose, I'm gonna fly. I may fly in the
desert out where I can't hurt anyone if I keel over, but I'm gonna
fly.

BWB

Bill,

have you looked into the Wunderlich Flexible Shaft Prerotators? I
believe he has setups for the Rotax engines, and it'll be lighter than
a battery/starter combo. And you don't have to worry about charging
it. I use one on my Bensen, also his rotor brake. I don't have a rotor
tach, but it'll spool up my blades fast enough that blade flap on
takeoff is not a problem.

Dick Wunderlich doesn't have a website, but you can contact him for
info/brochure at:

Dick Wunderlich Prerotators
306 W.16th St.
Lockport, Ill. 60441
Phone: 815-838-0450
Fax: 815-838-0630

Also, Ernie Boyette uses a hydraulic pump/motor setup on his
Dominators that people have adapted to different machines. His contact
info is at his website:

http://www.rotorcraft.com/dominator/

I don't have any good pics of my prerotator, but I think I may have
some closup pics of the hydraulic units, from the PRA fly-in in
Waxahatchie last year, if you need them. The pump motors are probably
available at Graingers.


Mike

I had one of those flexible prerotators on the Snowbird when I bought
it. But I changed the engine to a Rotax 582 with the E-Box drive
since it had an electric starter. That prerotator wouldn't work with
it, so I went to the electric. I get one good shot at it and it
drains the battery completely. So, I crank up the engine first, after
getting the blades turning a bit, then hit it. It works great, but I
have to fly for half an hour to recharge the battery for the next
spool-up.

Bill

battery was down to 4 Volts during the second spin up.

I gather the engine on the gyro has no generator? I don't know squate about
gyros, so I don't know what the hell's a "Snobird." I tried to hover an R22.
Once. The entire goddamn flight school was in tears. I want to try it again
but I gotta find some other place to do it.

Nah, it has a lighing coil with a diode on it so you can actually tap
off it and charge the battery back up. It works okay.


All I need is a bigger and heavier battery, but that means I have to
lose about another 10 pounds off my big fat gut to compensate for it.

What battery do you have in there now?

A little motorcycle battery from Walmart. Real airworthy eh? Ha Ha

Just have to bite the big one and stop eating pizza and drinking
Newcastle beer.

I stopped eating crap after spending three weeks in the hospital with my
side cut open so the docs could shuttle me back and forth to the OR to stuff
me full of gauze after my pancreas went south. Learned my lesson real quick.

Jesus Christ, are you okay? Damn, I hope that never happens again.

Happy Skies.

BWB

Bill which motorcycle battery are you using? I put a Odyssey 680 in my
RV-6 and it cranks my O-360 better than any Concord RG aircraft battery
I have ever used. I highly recomend it.

http://sunnbattery.com/item.jhtml?UC...0&PRID=1292858


Jerry

I'm using a cheap piece of **** battery from Walmart. I have the
gelcell 35 amp-hr battery but I didn't want the weight. I'm going to
have to build a new bracket for it and just bite the bullet and use
it.

BWB

Badwater Bill wrote:
Bill which motorcycle battery are you using? I put a Odyssey 680 in my
RV-6 and it cranks my O-360 better than any Concord RG aircraft battery
I have ever used. I highly recomend it.

http://sunnbattery.com/item.jhtml?UC...0&PRID=1292858


Jerry


I'm using a cheap piece of **** battery from Walmart. I have the
gelcell 35 amp-hr battery but I didn't want the weight. I'm going to
have to build a new bracket for it and just bite the bullet and use
it.

BWB


Bill, the Odyssey 680 weighs 11-12 lbs compared to 22-25 lbs for the gel
cell. Gell cell battries are not the way to go for what you are trying
to do. They well not stand the discharge/recharge

Here is a site that has the specs for the Odyssey batteries. The weights
listed also includes the metal jacket. You can buy this without the
metal jacket but the metal jacket can also be used as a battery mount.

http://www.odysseyfactory.com/specs.htm

If you all ready know all of this stuff then never mind. :-)

Jerry

Bill, the Odyssey 680 weighs 11-12 lbs compared to 22-25 lbs for the gel
cell. Gell cell battries are not the way to go for what you are trying
to do. They well not stand the discharge/recharge

Here is a site that has the specs for the Odyssey batteries. The weights
listed also includes the metal jacket. You can buy this without the
metal jacket but the metal jacket can also be used as a battery mount.

http://www.odysseyfactory.com/specs.htm

If you all ready know all of this stuff then never mind. :-)

Jerry

Thanks Jerry. I'm going to order one.

Bill