courierguy

70 is slow, who knew?! For sure on the tradeoff thing, but I made a few .mountain ski landings that I doubt a patrol or many Cubs would. Now the slow...

Flying across the high desert right now in the RANS, coming back from Salmon, making 84 mph, better then the 56 earlier: helps that I'm only burning...

Is that 3 legs I see, or is the 4 th hidden? If 3, a nice bit of weight saving/design work, (bet it doesn't wobble) if 4 never mind, good concept...

Only 3' of snow here in this part of Idaho, at least at this site. The bindings mod worked great, for about 25'. Then one boot slipped out the back,...

Surely you jest sir! The urinal came out of a church house demo job, $0.00. Note the old throttle on the table by the toilet, the old "go" lever,...

After about 1700 hours the internal stainless mesh that holds back the muffler packing loosened up a bit, so instead of a perfect cylinder it was...

And, done. Perfect, though I did gain 8 ozs. on the pair. Any ski/snowboard shop will have old bindings, probably for free.

Ratchet bindings.....like on my snowboards, that I have several sets of! Meanwhile my snowshoes have complicated/always piss me off bindings, I see a...

Don't do what I did a few years ago: I got a working large commercial AC unit for free, in exchange for some crane work actually. Not concerned about...

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...

How much travel, as measured at the shock itself?

I find it interesting how many different plane designs, Huskys and RANS S-7's to name just two, eventually come around to the fact that what they...

We have been getting hammered in SE Idaho also. Winter finally arrived!

So when will the 31" Airstreaks come out? Made for a lighter gross weight plane, like mine. I'm ready anytime they want to make me a pair.

That'd be a good start, except for possible pooling in low spots. If I was a plumbing contractor down there, I'd offer two price points. One for...

I understand why the water lines are run the way they are down there, as opposed to up north. But after this, if I was a homeowner whose ceiling...

Looked like aluminum or maybe Lexan in a somewhat airfoil shape around the shocks, hard to see, a guess.

HA! I won't do that, but at some point I will share my findings with my fellow RANS S-7S pilots, who are hauling around those big spinners for no...

Looks like you faired the shocks.....?

It was a cheap enough experiment, (forget the hours of labor, fitting etc.) but yielded absolutely no speed increase, so back on the wall it goes....

A couple days ago I was driving by one of our large wind farms, in perfect conditions for icing, judging by the road conditions. They were all...

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....

A county gravel road, 1.5 miles to a paved 2 lane rd., then down the mountain and 3 minutes later I can get on I-15, and another 10 miles it joins...

That above picture (T-Craft, pert sure) ) tells me, if that was my cowl, that a big spinner would be perhaps counter productive, that cowl was made...

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...

JUST a crush plate, but a fancy anodized and engraved one, first time I've seen that! That laser, water jet, or CNC 'd? Half the reason I'm...