Brian Kraut wrote: > Mark Langford has pictures of a scarfing jig made with a router on his web > site. I made one and it works great. I have it mounted off the side of > my > table saw so I can use the guide or rip fence on the saw and get straight > scarfs.
Once that piece of 1x8 pine was cut to mount the router, I probably spent about 3 more minutes scarfing every piece on my airplane, and I must say the joints were perfect. The article's in the middle of the September 1996 issue of "KROnline". If you haven't read all of these things (inspired by a vacuum of quality in KRNewsletter publishing), check them out at http://www.krnet.org/kronline/ . There's a lot of good KR stuff in there. A good way to spend a Saturday night, if you don't have a web page to edit. Disregard all the question marks....that's the kind of thing that can happen when you let Microsoft make your HTML web page files for you. I did another 1.2 hours near sundown tonight. Winds were 20 gusting to 30 most of the day, but it got decent an hour before sundown, so I flew around and did some more testing. At 2500 feet, wide open (about 170 mph) the fuselage is perfectly level. Stall is at 80 indicated clean and 75 indicated with flaps, and it's pretty gentle. Yes, ASI is way off on the low end, as I often glance at the GPS at touchdown and see numbers in the 60's. I did 6 landings today and only ran off the runway once, and then it was only half way. I keep a towel around to wipe the mud off the bottom of the plane, "for just such emergencies" (that's a Foghorn Leghorn quote, son). I may make a trip to south of TOI to my father's grass strip tomorrow. I should have a 60 mph tailwind at 9500', but the headwind on the return trip will be a different matter. I've found my sister's house on Google Earth halfway between here and there, and have entered her coordinates into the GPS for a little buzz job. Plane is fueled and ready to go. It's ugly, but it sure is fun... Mark Langford, Harvest, AL see homebuilt airplane at http://www.N56ML.com email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
