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    Yet another but more serious approach to start a kit plane project.

    So far, I am pleased with how easily things come together, but I am sure there will be a day when this is not the case. Still very impressed with the kit so far. I have not made an engine choice, but I am leaning towards a carburated Lycoming. I want to keep things simple and that is what I am...
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    Yet another but more serious approach to start a kit plane project.

    Pat, Thanks for your reply. Yes, that is possible. We may have met there. I talked to a lot of people. It was a very nice event, and I am sure I will be back. It's a little bit of a stretch from PA but not impossible, it just adds time. Chris
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    Yet another but more serious approach to start a kit plane project.

    Hi all, I started this thread more than ten years ago. Finally, everything fell into place, and I decided to pull the trigger on a Zenith project. I guess I realized there is never the right time, so it doesn't really matter when to start other than too late. This year, I attended the...
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    What could be done to reinvent the Affordaplane to a more homogeneous project?

    Hi all, Thanks for the input. I went on and ordered some CherryMax rivets at aircraft spruce. I do have a pneumatic riveter, but that will unlikely pull these rivets, so I also ordered a hand riveter capable of doing CherryMax rivets. The rivets I ordered have the appropriate length for the...
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    What could be done to reinvent the Affordaplane to a more homogeneous project?

    Hi Thanks for your response. I got some more information about riveting the whole thing. There is one guy that used rivets on his A-Plane. Here is his video He used stainless steel rivets 3/16 which would not be my first choice. Definitely not. I am not an enginieer of any kind, but based on...
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    What could be done to reinvent the Affordaplane to a more homogeneous project?

    I am following this channel due to my interest in Kit planes. I have some GA experience about 300 hours fixed wing and some rotorcraft more recently. Was looking into gyros and the like. However, my goal is flying around the compound when the weather is good, low and slow that’s all I want...
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    What could be done to reinvent the Affordaplane to a more homogeneous project?

    Hi, Could you please specify that a little bit. Maybe a link to more information . Thanks Christoph
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    Cordless electric rivet gun and cordless high speed electric drill

    Hi all, just to finalize this... here is a short video with the new tools First test with my new compressor, air drill and riveter. Never had any air tools before, the air drill has a very sensitive trigger which helps a lot with exactly placing the holes, furthermore it is very...
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    Homebuilt airplane project documentation

    Thank you all for your input. I understand this as follows: Under the FAA there are no specific rules for documentation. For later maintenance detailed documentation might be helpful. Especially for selling a homebuilt aircraft meticulous documentation with a lot of pictures might be...
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    Homebuilt airplane project documentation

    Thanks for all the input. I have currently no desire to build my own blog, website or whatsoever. My intention is to keep it as simple as possible and as complete as necessary, the only real requirement is to have an electronic as well as a print version. Kitlog Pro seems to be a very...
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    Homebuilt airplane project documentation

    Hi all, Looking for a good way to document a project I came across all sorts of solutions. While we probably all agree that good documentation is important for several reasons like final inspection, maintenance, repairman certificate for homebuilt etc, there are many ways to actually do it...
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    Cordless electric rivet gun and cordless high speed electric drill

    Thanks! OK, it goes on with tools Last night this little piece of equipment arrived, the UPS guy dropped it at the front door, mentioning that it is quite heavy. Not too bad only 100 lbs, I had to unbox it on the front porch and put the wheels on to get it into the basement. First...
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    Cordless electric rivet gun and cordless high speed electric drill

    Hi thanks for the advice. I ordered this one on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Pneumatic-Compact-Pistol-Drill-Chuck/dp/B00XD5A5NQ/ref=pd_sbs_328_6?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=XJ253BF3919HMG5GWA2E It seems to be the Asia version of a Sioux drill, I saw it in one of the videos on the...
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    Cordless electric rivet gun and cordless high speed electric drill

    Hello all, thank you for all the input which always helps a lot with decision making. I finally decided to go with air tools and have already purchased a compressor according to the size of my workshop noise criteria and so on. I do certainly know that in this case bigger is better but...
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    Yet another but more serious approach to start a kit plane project.

    Hi all, life is totally unforeseeable, we think that we can control our life but we actually cannot... OK how serious was this approach... really.., :rolleyes: A good four years later I am back to this forum... and still have not started with something, however this time I have a very good...
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    Cordless electric rivet gun and cordless high speed electric drill

    Thank you for your answer. I think I get the difference between these two groups. I am clearly not a blue collar shop guy ... I "run a career" (serious...:rolleyes:) during the day but none of my colleagues would ever imagine what I am doing during my time off. Actually I have a mixed...
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    Cordless electric rivet gun and cordless high speed electric drill

    Hi all, thanks for your great input! OK I thought I had made my decision already but now I am in the air again, all of you made very valid points. I thought that an cordless electric tool, aside from not needing the air compressor, has the advantage that there is no tripping over...
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    Cordless electric rivet gun and cordless high speed electric drill

    Hi all, As we all know there are multiple ways to skin a cat and probably just as many to build an airplane. Same with pulling pop rivets, multiple tools to do it. Probably the most common tool is an air driven rivet gun, but there are manual riveter and also electric driven rivet guns...
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    Dodgy take-off video

    Why scary... he just perfectly calculated his takeoff distance, certainly not the one with the 50f obstacle. This guy obviously belongs to the group of people you can't help. :speechles
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    How to tell you're a homebuilder- holiday edition!

    yeah... this was my wifes plan and my wish for Christmas this year....unfortunately postponed, no tail for whatsoever aircraft...sad. But we are alive and healthy, so who cares :)
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