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    New/old member with Bakeng Deuce questions

    Greetings all! I have been a member here for many years, but inactive for a long time. I can foresee activity in the future though, and figured it was time to get a bit more involved again. Briefly, I'm about a 180 hour pilot in Seattle, with lots of Cherokee and 152/172 time, and 12 hours...
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    Folding-wing biplane?

    I've been pondering building a plane for a year or two now, and actually gave up on it half a year ago due to the huge ongoing costs of hangaring, insurance, etc. With the return of decent flying weather, I gave the idea another shot, and ran across the Sherwood Ranger, which is a wood and...
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    Corvair questions

    Disclaimer: everything I talk about here represents very very early research. I'm just trying to get a feel for things before I go pester businessmen about these things. So, that said... I'm considering building a Fisher Celebrity, an all-wood biplane which is rated for a 65-120 HP...
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    Fuel management idea

    So, I'm contemplating building a Fisher Celebrity (1230 lb gross, 600 lb empty all wood two-place 100 HP biplane). As I understand it so far, the Celebrity is equipped with three fuel tanks, for a total of 13 or so gallons. It has two wing-root tanks, and one main tank aft of the engine, where...
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    Certified vs. non-certified engine?

    I'm in the (very) preliminary research stages of building a kit biplane, probably a Fisher Celebrity. I was chatting with my dad about it today (he's very interested in flying, but never took the time to get his license). He raised the interesting and almost patently obvious point that if a...
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    Mag-switch weirdness

    I dropped by Arlington (AWO) today to see if I could find anyone flying an ultralight or kit. No one flying, but I did run into a few people on the ground who were more than happy to chat with me. At one point, someone came over and asked, "any of you know anything about mags?" I...
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    Greetings from Seattle

    Just a quick hello note. I'm one of the fabled 100 hour ASEL pilots, bored with rent-a-planes when my eye fell on a Loehle Spad XIII one day. One thing lead to another, and I find myself here. (The current lieblingskit is a Fisher Classic, so I can bring a friend.) I'm still years away...
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