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    Mystery Bullet Shaped Aircraft

    Seems a cross between Klapmeyer's brothers VK and Piaggio Avanti...
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    Needing; Legal Eagle wing rib plans

    Thanks! Kind of isolated here in GA NW. Nobody around doing the same. Wish I had a fellow homebuilder close by... Cheers, azevedoflyer :cool:
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    Needing; Legal Eagle wing rib plans

    Shred, On the same boat as you are! How/what did you do to order the so-called “Iron Plans”? Cheers, azevedoflyer 😎
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    Hi how are ya?

    Bet you will be learning a lot about glueing with your Piet! Just like me, building a Double Eagle! Came to the right forum. Lot’s of expertise available. Welcome! azevedoflyer😎
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    New member from San Luis Obispo California

    Harry, Hailing from NW GA. I too took a tangent path on wing section for my DE! Same reason given by you: if building from scratch, why not go for a better airfoil? On my case, decided for a HR’s GA30A418. Eagler’s Nest forum members pointed out that for this class of airplanes no detectable...
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    Liquid cooling

    Old biplanes and some racers of the "30s used surface radiators to good effect. Modern airliners dump all the waste heat into the fuel and this, in turn, cools via the wing skin. If you are willing to go through the trouble, maybe you can pipe the coolant to tubes brazed to the upper surface of...
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    *^#%@ 'ing Wood Bees !!!!

    Do not laugh! It worked for me... A brown bag (important!) stuffed with plastic shopping bags, not quite full, hanging by a twine and free to swing. Apparently carpenter bees assume this to be a hornet's nest and stay away. As stated, my new house was swarmed by CBs till I got these bags...
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    Bearhawk5, six seater from Bob

    And with Harry Riblet’s wing section! Azevedoflyer
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    Variable geometry turbo

    I really like a single lever differential strokes/ boost gage concept. That is the way I would go. Will add a few nuggets to look for: 1- Keep gas temperature at TC inlet at 700-750 deg C. for longevity. 2- make sure your engine has a well cooled exhaust valve seat area. Temps higher than...
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    For the small plane A&Ps out there

    Consider a short wing Piper, a PA22 (Tripacer) or a PA22/20 a conversion of such to taildrager. They are sturdy little planes (29' span / 20' length), have upwards of 900# useful load (mine has an empty weight of 1092# and AUW of 2000#), cruise 110mph at 55% (2100 rpm) burning slightly less than...
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    Video series on TIG welding thin wall aircraft tubing

    Scrapper, I fit dead square into your stereotype newbie welder. Seen a lot of videos but they simply reinforced my gut feeling that welding seems to be beyond my grasp!To make matters more frustrating, I always wanted to master welding, specially TIG. And now I have this collection of thin wall...
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    Seeing Thermals

    [Agree! Frank Irving, from Imperial College - London, was behind such experiment. He was a smart guy and for sure had some ulterior motivation.
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    Seeing Thermals

    Many, many moons ago the British experimented with static voltage differences between a glider wingspan tips. If I recall correctly, they could tell the side a thermal was at by an increased static voltage on that side, compared to the other tip. Of course, no "at distance" prediction was...
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