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    Exhaust Augmenter Design Question

    Can someone please direct me to some information and/or provide some advice on the topic of exhaust augmenter design? I am very familiar with "injector pumps" and such because of my aircraft systems background however I have never designed one...until now. The project is a bit off topic for...
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    What Is A Good Beginner Paint Sprayer System/ Setup and a Good Paint For Aluminum???

    I have some small bare aluminum parts for an experimental airplane and a bunch of larger parts for an RV that I want to paint. I have been hesitant to go with a paint gun system in the past because I have never done that kind of painting before. Always used rattle can paint and was less than...
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    MOGAS in Fiberglass Fuel Tanks

    My airplane is fiberglass and the fuel tanks are coated with "JeffCo" and I was thinking of running MOGAS mixed with AVGAS 100LL. The engine will be able to run on MOGAS and the Bendix has been converted to work with even alcohol blended fuel however my only concern is the fuel tank coating. I...
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    Leak From Oil Pressure Regulator

    Another leak on my engine is the tip of the oil pressure regulator. It is not leaking from the base of the unit (the flange with the copper crush washer) but it is leaking from the very tip...as if the threade are leaking. Is this something that others have experienced? If so what is the...
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    LeakComing Question

    My engine is leaking from the fuel pump gasket. I have tried tightening down the nuts and have also replaced the gaskets and it still leaks. Is this engine designed to leak? By looking at it...it kinda seems so. Does anyone out there happen to have some suggestions on how to stop this leak...
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    HUGE INCREASE IN MOAs PLANNED...Please Help!!!

    Fellow Aviators, Can you please help us get the word out and fight this issue? The Military is planning on expanding the geographic size and lower the height of the MOAs in central Arizona and New Mexico down to 500 AGL and this will negatively impact hundreds of airports and make if very...
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    What is the Best GoPro or GoPro-Ish Camera For Experimental Airplane Use???

    I have an old-ish GoPro Hero 5 Plus and it is "just OK". It is good because it has very good video quality however the battery capacity is only about 1+45 hours and the WIFI interface is a bit unreliable (it is hit or miss as to...IF...I can control it from my phone and this unreliability is...
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    Turbocharger Air To Heat The Cabin

    There has been some discussion on another forum I frequent about tapping off the turbocharger discharge and routing that air to heat the cabin. I hear that some Lancair models use this type of heat source for the cabin. If anyone has any experience in this type of system I would be greatly...
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    What High Temp Hose To Use With Tial Wastegate?

    Ross, Lelievre, and others who are really sharp on turbochargers in experimental airplanes, I installed the Tial V60 Wastegate and I am happy with the choice. What I am not happy about is that I keep melting/ burning the hose that is used to open the pneumatic wastegate. When running LOP at...
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    Hangar Storage Loft Ideas/ Experience Please

    Hey there Cyber Airplane Friends, I want to build a loft in the back of my hanger and I was wondering if if you all had any pictures/Dream Project ideas you could share or some experience or I wish I cohlda or woulda idead you have had with this project. One of the many questions for those...
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    Engine Power?

    How does someone determine the amount of power the engine is producing? Is there an accurate calculator available online where you can plug and chug out the magic number? Take an IO-540 and there is the angle valve version and the parallel valve version of the engine so...if...all of the...
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    Engine Monitor Diagnostics Trend Line Chart Book/ Video/ Training Course?

    So most airplane nowadays have the fancy engine monitor system that records the engine and flight parameters and we all upload them to Savvy. Some of us even pay for the 179 dollar extra service where we can have the experts look at the charts and give advice and that is a really good service...
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    Lycoming IO-540 Angle Valve Cooling Baffle Kit?

    Does anyone make an engine cooling baffle kit for the angle valve Lycoming? I see Vans has a nice kit but that is only for the parallel valve engine. Thanks for the leads!!!
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    Performance Spreadsheet With Graphs?

    I would like to produce some professional performance graphs for my airplane. I have conducted a number of flights at different power MAP/ RPM/ ALT combinations and I would like to find some kind of spreadsheet that if I plugged the data into it would produce some professional looking graphs...
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    Experimental Aircraft Oxygen Systems

    I did the olde Google search of Experimental Air Oxygen Systems and it seems that there is not a great deal of information available online. With that in mind I wanted to reach out to the information brain trust to see what you all have already researched on the subject of a canual based...
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    What Lycoming Engine Do I Have... Standard/ Wide Flange??

    My engine logbook and a stamp on the crankcase says the engine is a "L-10748-48" and I was told that it came out of a Super Viking so I look at the Viking POH and it says that Lycoming engine offered is a IO-540-K1A5, K1B5, K1E5 and it says "300 HP engine with max continuous HP turbocharged of...
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    Celera 500l Progress

    Has anyone heard of any progress on the Celera 500L? Yes they are super quiet about their operation however there was a great deal of buzz around the prototype flying and a couple of articles/ ScrewTube videos and then silent. Seems like a nice concept...
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    Insurance Went Up Again...Any Group Insurance Rates?

    Does anyone know of an insurance underwriter that is willing to work with a group of owners of the same aircraft type where the group would have an organized structure of annual aircraft inspections performed by the group and annual training conducted by a CFI that is current on the type and if...
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    Exhaust Fabricator South West US

    I need to get an exhaust system redone. Does anyone have a recommendation of a shop in the SW US? It is preferred that the fabricator is located at an airport so I do not have to remove wings and truck the airplane overroad. THANKS!!!
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    Superior SL53E19600 Vernatherm

    Are ther different Vernatherms temperature ranges available? My engine has a new Superior SL53E19600 Vernatherm and it is stamped with 85 C so that converts to 185 F and this was installed during the engine rebuild. The engine now has 20 SMOH.. The engine oil temperature on my airplane since...
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