Hello Frank. Happy New Year!
We've missed your postings on progress building/rebuilding your Nieuport. Hope you and yours are doing well.
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Hello Frank. Happy New Year!
We've missed your postings on progress building/rebuilding your Nieuport. Hope you and yours are doing well.
Yeah I miss his entries here.
But you can see some recent videos on his you tube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/EntropyUnlimited/videos
The last entries being 2 months ago.
Happy Holidays to you Frank. Hope you and yours are well.
Let us know how you are getting along, when you have the time.
You've accomplished a great deal even with the scorching heat.
" The present is a lot of "Well, I need to do this, but before that I have to do that, which means I need to do the other thing first..." "
Or another way to put it is:
"You have to do it all...
Excellent and inspirational video and much appreciated.
"The stick was pretty high on my improvements list. To heck with historical accuracy - there's no good way to pick up the tail when built as plans."
I think one way they did it in WWI was to lift...
Hi Frank,
Many thanks for the quick video showing the progress on the Nieuport. Looks like great work.
I have always found that the second or third version of any kind of build I ever did...
Great to see you back, Frank! Been wondering what's going on in the hangar. I had to smile when, in the instrument panel video, you realized you forgot the two side panels for the switches - I've...
What's the URL for your web site?
I enjoy reading Frank's entries here and his videos and look for new ones often.
Whenever I have a crummy job to do on the plane I remind myself that after all that work and the crash, Frank did...
Hi Frank,
Great to hear from you.
Very wise to not push the carry-through drilling until you have the right tools.
How thick was each bit of plywood that you glued up?
Hi Frank,
Glad to hear you are making progress. When you have the time a picture of the fuselage in its present state would be great.
But totally understandable if you are too busy for that.
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As far as sanding to make it fit goes I think a lot depends upon whether you're talking end grain or the face of the wood. If you're scarfing and you sand the scarfs, you may drive sanding dust into...
Hi Frank,
How's it going with the rebuild?
Yep. Sometimes it's just better to stop when you are snake bit.
BTW you're quite inspirational in that you had a crash and decided to build a new plane. Some people would have just given up.
Sorry to hear about the busted ribs.
Glad you decided to build a new fuselage.
Hi Frank,
Haven't heard from you in a while in the forum. We hope you are ok
Hi Ron,
Yeah if you look at the Oregon Aero upgrade kits, they give you a foam pocket into which you slide the speaker, and the speaker is suspended in the foam ear ring. They don't mention...
Well after some comparison flight tests I find that the A-11 (and AN-H-15 for that matter) rubber earcups do not block cabin noise as well as a decent set of passive noise reduction headphones.
So...
The benefit of the neck gaiter over just a turtleneck is that if you need to, you can pull it up over your nose and therefore cover your cheeks, nose and mouth.
Nothing wrong with wearing both.
Neck gaiters are a great solution to the problem. You wouldn't really need the scarf with a neck gaiter.....
but you gotta wear the scarf.
Landing was fine. I was thinking of the swerving I saw immediately after the tailwheel settled. I've experienced that :)
Actually I was looking at the forward view of the landing over the gun.
Hi Frank,
Reason I ask about how you handle lowering the tail after the mains are pinned is that I found on my plane (RV-8) how you handle that makes the difference between a straight rollout vs...