I wouldn't worry too much about wood airplanes and water. The almost
all wood original Volmer Amphibian is still flying and it must be
around 50 years old or more. Volmer flew it everywhere and landed it
constantly in water, both salt and fresh. It is said the he kept the
water landing a
When the subject of retractable gear comes up I always suspected that
perhaps the best way to go would be to retract the nose gear and
leave the main gear down and very well faired. This would be a
combination that would be low drag and not too complicated. A lot of
the drag of a fixed gea
Regarding the possible "canard" fly in at Jean or somewhere in the
SW: Contact! magazine has an alternative engine fly in on the last
weekend of April or the first weekend of May at Jean NV. Perhaps that
is what was being thought of. Mark Langford should be familiar with
the details as a
The ercoupe had a most interesting fuel system. It had two wing tanks
(9 gal each and cross connected) plus a header tank of 5 gal (later 6
gal) The engine driven pump continually pumped fuel from the wing
tanks to the header tank. An overflow system allowed the excess to
drain back to t
A friend of mine who is an IA uses this method to check the tracking
of the main gear. He places a piece of aluminum on the floor in front
of each wheel. He then puts some oil on the aluminum. He then places
a second piece of aluminum on the first piece. Then the aircraft
(properly loaded)
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On Dec 12, 2006, at 11:04 AM, krnet-requ...@mylist.net wrote:
> There is another way to descend in an emergency if you have lost or
> do not have gyros. Pick an East or West heading, your mag compass
> will turn correctly (like a DG) on these headings , set up a rate
> of decent (say 500/
Without impulse coupling or something like it, a mag can be a bear
to start. The old Jacob round engines got around this by having a mag
and a distributor. You started the engine on the distributor (just
like your car prior to the modern electronic ignitions) and then
added the mag. I su
I am terribly curious , how do you eliminate injection with a
diesel? Is there some new system out there? John Milland
On Oct 24, 2006, at 9:00 PM, krnet-requ...@mylist.net wrote:
> Or, you could install a Diesel engine and get away with injection,
> carburetor, magnetos, coils... everything
Regarding type IV engines. Type IV all have aluminum cases. Type 1
have magnesium cases unless an aluminum case was purchased from an
after market source.
John Milland
On Oct 21, 2006, at 9:00 PM, krnet-requ...@mylist.net wrote:
>> Lots has been said about engines type 1,2,3 or 4.
I built up a type IV engine and installed hydraulic lifters in a
Porsche 912E. Nothing had to be done to the case, however a cam
ground for the hyd lifter was required and a higher capacity oil pump
had to be installed. Also, as I remember, I may have had to customize
the push rods length
I had a LCD temp display that I had left in my car for a while
here in Arizona while a crew was pouring a new driveway for me. When
the job was finished and I could get to the car my LCD display was
completely black and the interior of the car was rather on the warm
side. However, s
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