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    Glue Recommendation

    If you're looking at building a Fisher Flying Products design, T-88 is the only glue they approve for building their designs. I enjoy working with T-88 due to easy mixing and a wide temperature range for application (minimum 35⁰ F). Additionally, it can fill gaps and the only clamping pressure...
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    Crashes in the News - Thread

    It really isn't that short of a distance to where you are supposed to actually land - displaced thresholds exist, and exist for a reason (this reason, it turns out). At 500 feet from the road, a 3-degree glidepath to the threshold would have you crossing the road 25 feet high, clearing a...
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    Crashes in the News - Thread

    Our definition of "yards" must be a bit different. Considering where the displaced thresholds are located, the only excuse for hitting a vehicle on a road is "poor airmanship". We owe it to ourselves, our passengers, and the public to do better than this.
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    Crashes in the News - Thread

    Gotta put it on those numbers.....🙄
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    Fisher Flying Products New Ownership/Factories?

    Correct in that plans costs are baked into the kit prices. I had purchased a full plan set along with my tail kit, and the cost of the plans are being deducted from my wing kit. The tail kit is normally part of the fuselage, so the tail kit credit will be applied when I order that. My tail...
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    Fisher Flying Products New Ownership/Factories?

    I'm in the early stages of building an R80 Tiger Moth. Started with a tail kit, last week my TC came over and gave his blessing on my workmanship, so a few days ago I called Dave to order the wing kit. Dave has a majority investor now, been like that since last year, but they're still alive...
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    HOTAS H10A Hands on Throttle and Stick

    Lord have mercy
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    Seawind 3000 Safety issues

    Does the engine use a pusher prop? If no, then it's a tractor. The engine most certainly does pull on the engine mount.
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    How important is historic authenticity vs aerodynamics in a historic inspired design?

    I'm pretty sure my R80 Tiger Moth project only shares a general outline with the original, and that is perfectly fine with me. If the designers of the original airplanes could have used the construction and aerodymanic knowledged later gained to make their designs better, then they would have...
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    Crashes in the News - Thread

    Depends on the plane. For example in my Mooney, the gear extends and retracts quickly with no additional gear doors opening during the gear sequence, so I will absolutely be higher, quicker, by retracting the gear sooner on departure. Other planes with a longer gear sequence time will, of...
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    Seawind 3000 Safety issues

    There are major trade-offs when going to a turbine on a seaplane.
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    Vans RV-15 design

    Do you show up at endless practices, watching the team make mistakes, change direction, repeat......or do you just go to the games and cheer on the finished product? Just because making sausage is an ugly process, does not mean one should be upset or disappointed in those making it.
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    Vans RV-15 design

    I'm pretty sure Van's understands how to bring a product to market. Reactions like yours are why companies generally keep projects under wraps. You're getting a brief glimpse into how the sausage is made. Just because you didn't see the process before, doesn't mean it wasn't happening.
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    Dana Hyde Challenger 300

    Selecting the trim from primary to off will disconnect the autopilot. Since the AP was holding pressure (evidenced by CAS message), along with the crew running the wrong checklist, the result was a severe pitch excursion. Plus the Rudder Limiter Fault CAS message they received after their...
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    Vans RV-15 design

    In a world where everyone inexplicably wants to be Trent Palmer and 100k+ Kitfoxes are the norm, Vans is wise to capitalize on the marke.
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    Fisher Flying Products

    I don't have the tail dimension of the DH so I can't specifically answer the wingless trailerable width question. I don't believe it is wider than 8 feet. I cannot imagine that removing wings is something you would want to do regularly. Control attachments come to mind among other things...
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    Fisher Flying Products

    What were your other questions?
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    Fisher Flying Products

    We met with them at Oshkosh last year and are now building an R80 Tiger Moth. Not well advertised on their webpage is a tail kit for whatever airplane you are interested in. The kit includes wood, glue, fabric, and plans to complete the tail to see if the project is for you. The cost is $500...
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    Raptor NG Discussion

    All I could think when watching that video was "Sir, step away from the CAD".
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    Fisher Aria

    Word is they've dropped the Aria project in favor of Archon. Which is unfortunate, because I found Aria to be both interesting and practical vs the somewhat novelty Archon (Aria could use a better useful load though). I need to call Fisher soon to order my next subkit, and may inquire about...
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