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 flight home is payback time.
But my 400" strip...
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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 flight home is payback time.
But my 400" strip...
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 3.5 gph as I will be up here a while. Still, most...
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 either way. I had a sleeping deck (72", flat and...
Look at your T-3 tailspring, see that big gap in it under the main attach bolt? I had a chunk of 1" CM tube handy that fit through there just right, with a welded washer on one side, and another big...
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, expected I guess, as these bindings on a snowboard...
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, still in service! Shower just out of view to the...
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 possibly contributing to excessive back pressure, so...
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 modification happening today. Thanks for the...
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 its energy consumption, since I have a surplus of...
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 fix (new muffler, though in retrospect I could...
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 REALLY need is some derivation of cub style gear! ...
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 simply repairing it how it was, and a higher one (but...
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 collapsed after a burst pipe, rather then put it all...
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 reason other than they look cool, and they think it...
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. Besides adding a bit over 2 pounds, it also made the...
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 churning away, I'd expect these up here are anti ice...
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. The Swiss Muffler (goggle it) is an additional...
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 with I-86. Point being, a great mix of boonie living...
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 for a skull cap or even no spinner. As opposed to...
