Ha, I forgot about this..... At 2600 hours, I started hearing a rattling sound, turned out my muffler had shed it internals, thus the noise. A simple...
Cooling drag, turbulence around the cowl with that big gap, who knows, I will find out, probably not a huge amount but just a little less can't hurt....
That above picture tells me, if that was my cowl, that a big spinner would be perhaps counter productive, that cowl was made for a skull cap or even...
I've been flying with a 6" skullcap on my RANS 7 for the last 2700 hrs, and have just fitted a 12" , what the plane and most importantly the cowl was...
I get into my tandem taildragger S-7S different then most I guess. I back up, step onto the tire, put my butt on the door opening bottom, then reach...