courierguy

Following the exp scene like I do, whenever someone specs out a hi comp engine, built for 100 LL, I wonder if they consider discussions like this!

Pumping out of a jug or bag, that's in contact with the plane, would seem to offer no more static concerns then when fuel is normally being moved...

Check out the fuel pumps at Summit Racing and other hot rod web sites. The pumps made for high horsepower race engine are cheap and readily...

I've been doing so for the last 20 years, using mogas exclusively, even on XC's. I have a high volume (race car type, about $125.00) fuel pump,...

The old airport site at West Yellowstone MT is still ridiculously "airport like", grown in a bit but for a slow lander it's JFK. But do not try and...

And... with all the various trick little LED lights I have in all the vehicles and around the place, it almost irritated me when I first discovered...

Then there is the spillway on the failed Teton Dam, just waiting for some pilot to land it. The fact that it's posted with old signs (original,...

What you're referring to is I believe, is the noise reduction technique of taking a quality ANR headset, or several, and running it through a table ...

The holes are too small and too far (70+') for the mirror trick. 4 sections of the telescoping boom have to line up, for the grease gun's needle tip...

I stepped off what seemed to about 70-80', and I have a good eye being the crane biz, and it still worked. If I didn't already have a hard wired Ray...

The gear got a workout on this mountain top wind blown snow but once walking around I was breaking through the crust to my knees.

14.4 pounds of push/pull.

Turns out, these remote units are common and inexpensive enough to be linked to the micro (what they call them) linear actuators on Amazon, that's...

A remote control oil cooler shutter gizmo I made up, using Anti Splat Aero's shutter, $150.00 or so for everything, it all comes off for summer....

The big 50 for me this June, as in I started getting airborne 50 years ago. Self taught in hang gliders and ultralights, (only knocked myself out...

A jet blew thru the end of the Hailey ID airport years ago, (found it:https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19930826-1), and a local...

On a business flying trip to Helena MT once with a train driver buddy, (he was also a cabinet maker, and was meeting with a plane kit maker to...

After the NSTB gets done with the Trevor Howard/T-Craft "crash", they will have their hands full with this one. I know several long time locomotive...

Build it bigger then you need, and you FOR SURE will fill it up with other crap besides the plane! There is nothing wrong with building a hangar for...

Washing a plane inside, in the winter, in a floor heated hangar is a guilty luxury. I should do it more. I'm doing some cowling work (putting one of...

An entire new YouTube biz is being started by others posting about the incident, and they are getting lots of hits.

The S-7, with 29" tires, dead stick performance probably about the same as a SC. 1 notch of flaps, indicated speed about 55 mph I think....

As one who has done a fair bit of dead stick ridge soaring, (in a RANS S-7S, not a SC) I'm going to hazard a guess: 7 to 1? Work calls, I'll read...

I test flew the Rotax yesterday, after pulling it for a camshaft performance mod. My first ski flight of the year also, so my "workload" was a bit...

They have a snowplane ski-in near Tetonia ID, most years the WX sucks but about 5 years ago I flew over and dropped in, unannouced. Held in a big...

I've been looking at the track systems available for ATVs, as I already have a 1 year old Honda Rancher that just gathers dust all winter....

On my way to a job Monday morning, no plane in the pic but I have a half dozen or so LZ's in the range on the right, that should count for something....