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  1. foolonthehill

    methyl methacrylate (MMA)

    My company builds the entire composite airframe for Arion Aircraft. We use MMA exclusively on all bond joints. Not to say we don't also tie in accesable joints with woven reinforcements as well, but MMA is used to bond the wing spar to the skins, and all the other flight control surfaces to each...
  2. foolonthehill

    Motorcycles of HBA.com

    Back in the '90's, my wife and I. Turbo. Nitrous. 7 flat in the 1/4 @ 200MPH. That was pro category stuff back then. Today, the sportsman bikes are going just as fast pro faster! I rode a 1000R Ninja and ZX10 on the street.
  3. foolonthehill

    Places to manufacture kits

    Raytol, I'd have never posted the images of the wind turbine I built if I though it was going to hyjack this thread the way it apparently has. Sorry.
  4. foolonthehill

    Places to manufacture kits

    We set up a tower to measure wind first. This one went on a 100' tower in Weslaco, TX at the HEB food distribution warehouse.
  5. foolonthehill

    Places to manufacture kits

    BIGSHU: Here is both our scale wind tunnel model being erected, and the full size unit prior to breakdown and shipping. The entire composite assembly weighed less than 400 lbs, started turning at 3mph wind, making power at 6mph, and certified and insurance underwritten to 120mph winds without...
  6. foolonthehill

    Places to manufacture kits

    I had the 133K building when I moved to KY, several business changes since then, and I'm no longer in that huge facility. At that time, I was with a composites technology company after we patented several new composite processes, and I built the world's largest Helical Savonius wind turbine...
  7. foolonthehill

    Places to manufacture kits

    I run a small composite airframe manufacturing business. I relocated to Kentucky in '07. Tax incentive packaging is a huge benefit for starting up in most states. Texas, Florida, Tennessee, have such business-friendly tax rates they could care less if you come there or not, they aren't giving...
  8. foolonthehill

    HBA Member "Day Jobs"

    I'm a composite process and tooling guy. I currently build the Arion Lightning composite airframe for Arion, and other smaller stuff for several other companies, and am working with Rapture Aircraft in the development of their single and four place ships.
  9. foolonthehill

    Parts For Sale Magazine collection

    I could run up to Louisville and meet you there, or about 1/2 way at Elizabethtown...
  10. foolonthehill

    Parts For Sale Magazine collection

    Well, shoot, I just packed them all up and moved them to my shop. However, I do have some pretty cool hardbound books about old aircraft. Let me see if I can get some pix of these.
  11. foolonthehill

    The concept of a flying car will eventually succeed

    It's an idea who's time will never come. It's a fringe idea. I can't see anything in the foreseeable future that would function well in both categories.
  12. foolonthehill

    The concept of a flying car will eventually succeed

    I think it is a great idea who's time will never come.
  13. foolonthehill

    Parts For Sale Magazine collection

    I've got a fair sized collection of the EAA's Sport Aviation, Vintage Aircraft, AOPA Pilot, and Air & Space that I'd like to find a good home for. I'm located in South Central Kentucky, if you're close enough to pickup, otherwise they're your's for the cost of the ride. I also have a good sized...
  14. foolonthehill

    10/23 Raptor Video

    A golf ball flies 3 times further than an undimpled ball of the same size and weight.
  15. foolonthehill

    10/23 Raptor Video

    I usually don't post here, just occasionally listen in, because it gets too depressing to think that there are so many keyboard commandos in aviation; what with some of the posts I see on this forum. But I can say this with certainty: Peter has sold the Raptor and all data pertaining to it to...
  16. foolonthehill

    Oshkosh 2021

    I’ll be at the Turb Aero display, #615, right next to RANS Aircraft. Happy to meet any of you who stop by!
  17. foolonthehill

    Epoxy recommendations!

    Yes, I was referring to the systems we are using for infusion. There are very many variables one can choose when determining pot life. From what I've been told, and I'm just a simple process guy, not a chemical engineer, is that Hexion's base epoxy, 828, is used by many of the epoxy company's as...
  18. foolonthehill

    Epoxy recommendations!

    We had some lab tests done about 3 years ago, with Pro-Set, MGS (Hexion in the US everywhere but Spruce), R&D Resin (Premium Resin tech), and one other epoxy resin, might have been PTM&W, don't recall. What I do recall is you could throw a blanket over all of them. In laminate testing of test...
  19. foolonthehill

    Core materials for resin infusion with best strength to weight ratio for use with compound curves

    I build all the Arion Lightning aircraft composite structural components for Arion Aircraft. We use 4mm Gurit Corecell, which is double scored. Light, strong, and great for infusion.
  20. foolonthehill

    Forward Tilting Canopy Hinges

    Arion Lightnings have a very simple forward tilting canopy arrangement. Two flat aluminum brackets between a couple of pieces of angle aluminum, and a couple of gas struts. I don't think Pulsar's are available anymore, Arion parts are, but its the idea that it is simple to duplicate at home that...
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