courierguy

I've carried different monocular and binocs for decades for use in flight, and for sure there are conditions where they are worthless, other times...

A thing I've noticed: is every heavy equipment .mechanic ( Hal's day job is fixing giant mining equipment, and he is highly respected and sought...

I recently had a valve issue on the RANS's Rotax. 20 over 85! When I took the head to "my" mechanic, He turned it upside down, squirted some brake...

On my HydroSwing door, (different I know, but similar stresses,) both the 19' wide shop and the 38' hangar door, I ended up welding 1/4" by 2" flat...

Those modding the 4 stroke Yamaha sled engines are reporting over 700 lbs. FWIW. One is a bit over 1 K.

It's rather pointless info on how a prop will pull in actual use, granted. BUT, if you pull xx amount static, make a minor adjustment of whatever,...

I am experimenting with a partially used can that's been in the freezer since my last application. An old painters trick when using oil based paint:...

It's like an entire new sport, flying wise: flying into a new to you paved airstrip (uncontrolled, of course), and while making a normal circuit and...

My brother in Fairbanks (38 years now) just called, they are moving to Overton NV, he's had enough apparently. Global warming in Idaho this...

That picture right there is why we fly tandem!

I've never figured out why the 3 different pairs of Airstreaks I've run have MINIMUM AIR PRESSURE 6 LBS. molded into the sidewalls. I use that number...

Bannock Peak, nothing special, just looks more impressive due to the smaller terrain around it, does look pretty cool this time of year, like it's...

Took me a while to understand your post, until I noticed the tires.....as luck would have it, my first back on the bushtires landing was this site...

So, how deep would that crevasse likely be? Or is that the bottom that we can see? Deep enough it appears to cause a real bad day, but surely not...

Just got the RANS back on the 29's, a rite of spring. Don't have to duck anymore walking under the wing. Those are 6:00's on the left, for the Datum...

A few years ago I swapped out my VAL Avionics com radio for the dinky little V6 MGL. It works well enough, though I liked the 3 different VAL's I had...

Yes Brian, your pic, I got the various ski fliers confused! I have about a dozen of the Titan straps now, being able to link them together to achieve...

Wind hammered, good term, kinda like work hardened, which is how I think of hard snow. I just spent an hour ridge semi soaring (at 800-900 RPM at...

I took the tail ski off a couple days ago, and now, as it's permanently attached to the small winter time tail wheel, it was a one bolt job (plus the...

A wing rotator can be designed with the thought in mind of also using it to hold and position the control surfaces. I have two steel tripods that...

Doing a crane job on a cell tower a few years ago, I was driving up the farm road to the site when I saw the landowner walking up to where he had...

I rigged a DeWalt impact driver, not a drill, to my tractors snowblower chute rotater, works great, those things are torquey!

Handlebar clearance will be the thing, unlike my folding bars on my cranebike, folding bars aren't a dirt bike thing, for good reason. The rack is...

I assume the plane pictured has a cantilevered wing, or are the lfit struts further back? If not where are the lift struts?! That idea would work...

If I can figure out how to stuff the Montague in the S-7S, with your skill set and what your day job is, hanging the KTM from the belly ought to be a...