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  1. olphart

    What are you doing in addition to flying?

    Started building my next Sonex. I wasn't going to build any more airplanes after crashing Miss Mitty, but apparently "it's what I do"
  2. olphart

    1/2 scale warbirds

    Update on Miss Mitty. She is no more. On landing I got sloppy and let my concentration lapse for a few seconds checking airspeed just as a xwind gust moved me off the narrow strip and into the wheat field. Correction was too little, too late. I found myself trapped crunched upside down in a...
  3. olphart

    FL760 issue

    Aha! I solved the problem! I had hooked up the radio to a spare battery thru a continuity tester, which pulled the voltage below what the radio was happy with. So it kept shutting down, then trying to power up again. I noticed the continuity tester light going off and on with the radio...
  4. olphart

    FL760 issue

    no, not transmitting, no headset wired in
  5. olphart

    FL760 issue

    I'm installing and FL760 radio and on bench testing, powering up get it flashing on and every couple of seconds. The only connections are 12v and ground. I;ve checked the wiring and it is correct to the diagram. Anyone else had this problem?
  6. olphart

    One of the really Good Flyers !

    I really dig the music!!
  7. olphart

    AmEagle American Eaglet

    I built one eons ago. Realized pretty quickly that it wouldn't carry my 190 lb frame. I'm sure no one ever got one off the ground under its own power
  8. olphart

    Bing 94 Carb and fuel pump

    It has sold
  9. olphart

    Bing 94 Carb and fuel pump

    no, I'd rather sell the whole set
  10. olphart

    Bing 94 parts needed

    See my ad for the Bing Carb..
  11. olphart

    Bing 94 Carb and fuel pump

    Yes it is...
  12. olphart

    Revflo Carb and Alt air assembly

    Carb is sold
  13. olphart

    Bing 94 Carb and fuel pump

    Came from a Jabiru 3300, used only once to test a fuel system. As new $200 USD
  14. olphart

    Revflo Carb and Alt air assembly

    Someone asked me about the size of the carb. It's a 36...I assume that's 36mm
  15. olphart

    1/2 scale warbirds

    Used the standard front and rear upper bulkheads, and the standard lower bulkheads, then made new upper intermediate bulkheads to fit the profile
  16. olphart

    1/2 scale warbirds

    No, unfortunately, I don't. I eyeball engineered it using the TLAR rule ;)
  17. olphart

    Howdy from the Deep South....of Canada

    The CX4 canopy comes from Dave Thatcher. The CX5 canopy comes from Airplane Plastics in Dayton OH. About $1k
  18. olphart

    Howdy from the Deep South....of Canada

    Just outside Windsor..Essex ON
  19. olphart

    Revflo Carb and Alt air assembly

    Sure. I'm about 15 miles south of Detroit. A little town called Essex
  20. olphart

    1/2 scale warbirds

    I'm in the "just use paint to make your sport plane look like a warbird" camp. Miss Mitty is a delightful bird to fly and the decision to go warbird was seeing how "spitfirely" she looked while building. It helped as well that a real Spit is mounted on a pylon in my town.
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