Ol' Smokey's model would have been an 11 inch clutch spinning in a bell housing say13 inches in diameter and he was looking for a gain around 7,000 RPM. That sounds like a pump that might move some...
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Ol' Smokey's model would have been an 11 inch clutch spinning in a bell housing say13 inches in diameter and he was looking for a gain around 7,000 RPM. That sounds like a pump that might move some...
Back in the 60's a dude named Smokey Yunick who also just happened to be a former B-17 Bomber pilot found himself to be a successful race car builder in the new burgeoning sport of NASCAR stock car...
Gas welding is NOT a lost art. They were teaching it when I went through A&P school...Er, Uh, that was a few years ago (25). I welded my fuselage using gas and you can too. Get some help from your...
For the record "I am not a conspiracy theorist". Churches are full of people every Sunday pledging their faith to something no one can prove. Flight 800, the lone gunman, weapons of mass destruction,...
I have had the privilege of working on the 747 Classic for many years. Been in every fuel tank of series 100, 200, and 400 aircraft. Don't buy the vapor explosion theory, never did.
Most folks I...
EAA leadership probably felt they had no choice considering the time frame involved.
I'm sure on the balance sheet it looked like a no brainer. Just take 500K off the top and were still well in the...
Screw it, cancel the fly in. Just have an air show and charge the general public to attend. That's what it is turning in to anyway. You can park a lot of Cambrys and Civics in the North 40.
The agency's mandate is safety. Isn't it also promoting aviation? I thought that was the conflict the FAA was always caught in the middle of.
Safety plus promoting aviation equals FAA controller...
I think the original warning was intended for someone like me who might be tempted to stick the beacon up in their front yard where there is no airport. At least that's the way I took it. Would be...
OH yeah, That old dude from Georgia. I remember one year at Sun-N-Fun he had a wrecked Gnome rotary for like $3500!! Wish I had bought it!
OK just jumping in here with a bucket of cold water. Every composite structural or control surface part on certified aircraft I inspect on a regular basis (Gulfstream) has a mandatory periodic...
Don't think Oshkosh would be a likely target. It's off the radar scope of most of these hate mongers. Actually it's off the radar scope of most non aviation types.
Turbulence? seatbelt? Aerobatics? Seatbelt? When I was in A&P school a student pilot brought a C-150 back with a broken and mostly missing back window. His claim was a brief case that had been in the...
So you're just going to drop that little nugget without further comment?
Hey, Nobody goes there for the food anyway.
Ditto Turtles comments. I've been to both. Lakeland since it started in the 1980's thru the present only missed 1990-1996 when I attended Oshkosh. (Still can't call it AirveXXXXXX).
The campground...
Mr Greenwood if you will read my whole statement you will notice I am sticking up for the Wrights, not minimizing their accomplishments. You must agree a flight of 120 feet is quite a modest...
Actually the Wrights first claim to a "Flight" might be stretching it a bit, certainly not a flight by our standards today. But they stuck with it. Even through failures, fatalities, and lack of...
I too am totally pissed with the new AOPA offering. Why are we not raising hell with them? Oh, yeah, I tried that, got a form e-mail response.
Doesn't anyone believe in Karma? I had never heard the name Tom Garcia before today, But I assure you if I ever meet anyone named Tom Garcia I will kick him square in the nuts. That's the beauty of...
New guy posts and gets beat up by the elitist bully pulpit. Nice job guys.
Back up the bus. Never said that. In fact my next plane will probably be a kit. What I said in a previous post was something to the effect that the preponderance of kitplanes has changed the...
Sorry but I have tried to become active in three different chapters and have not found success. My experience has been the folks at these gatherings were snobbish or more interested in the lunch than...
Cool! I guess instead of a wing walk you have a "butt slide"! Very cool airplane.
If you're just cutting off tube consider a chop saw. Band saw blades don't work so well on tube anywho. Chop saw with abrasive blade is quite cheap compared to a band saw (which you will need...
Check out some ARMY aviation resources. They had a bunch of U-8's that flew with the GSO-480. We had three of the airplanes and about two dozen engines when I was in A&P school. Since you're...