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    April 8th Eclipse

    Kerrville TX is one airport in the path: https://eclipse2024.org/eclipse_cities/statemap.html You'd have to call an airport or perhaps view their website to see if they'll allow camping. From experience with the last total eclipse I know that the best-located airports are taking reservations...
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    Plan question

    The top view looks like a plan-view drawing (from the top -- by convention -- with a centerline marked on it) and the bottom view looks like a side-elevation drawing.
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    VW case stud "O rings"

    Tom Wilson (who now writes for KITPLANES magazine) says in "How to Rebuild Your Volkswagen Air-Cooled Engine" (p. 119): " Type 1-3 engines use rubber seal rings on the main bearing studs ... install new rings from the gasket kit. There is no need to lube these sealing rings." In several...
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    Commercial Flights Are Experiencing 'Unthinkable' GPS Attacks

    The latest I could find from the FAA is from 2019: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/acf/media/Presentations/19-01_VOR_MON_Ernesto_Etienne.pdf Here's some unofficial news from earlier this year: The VOR Phase-Out - PilotWorkshops VORs will be reduced but not eliminated and...
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    Kitplanes password reset

    Wouldn't recognize my password nor their computer-generated "forgot my password" password. Customer Service (at Flying Magazine now) got it straightened out that day (Monday).
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    My newbie obsessive questions about VW repair

    Loose collets don't make or allow the valve to rotate on its seat; they just ruin themselves, the valve stem and/or the spring retainer. What rotates the valve (on VW engines, at least) is the slight lateral offset (parallel to the rocker shaft) of the valve adjuster from the axis of the stem...
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    My newbie obsessive questions about VW repair

    Bill Fisher's 1970 classic, "How To Hotrod VW Engines", recommends passing a 0.010-inch feeler gauge between the coils at full valve-lift. He's mute on the subject of allowing the collets to touch each other, but if they do the valve will slam up and down against the ridges inside the collets...
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    More V-12s

    The late, great Steve Bennett (Great Plains Aircraft Supply) offered watercooled heads for several years; Steve discontinued them after selling just one set. VW users want something cheap, which special heads of any sort are not...
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    Let’s Say I Wanted to Fly on Pedal Power

    I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the possibility of a 'multi-engine' HPA. More than sixty years ago Arthur C. Clarke published a magazine article (later included in a collection of articles, Profiles of the Future, I think) in which he pointed out that a solo machine's pilot would need...
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    DarkAero

    Here's a blog by one Nate Mullins, a ULPower owner: My ULPower
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    Thread Rename: How to build a dynamometer for an aero engine running a prop ?

    Regarding post #74 in this thread, here's a smoother English translation by M. Columban himself. Unfortunately I've lost the name of the publication and it's not printed on the pages (unless it's "Amateur Aircraft Technique"). It does have a chart not included in #74's version.
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    Start stop technology

    Pressure in a cooling system keeps gas molecules (coolant vapor and dissolved air) from coalescing and forming steam pockets at hot spots in the engine which deprive those spots of contact with the coolant and can cause catastrophic damage. In a misguided attempt to get more of a racing...
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    Are map stitching errors in EFBs common?

    I use Avare even for 500-600 NM flights across sectional-chart boundaries, but I always closely examine the route for any chart-overlap omissions and make notes before leaving. With that precaution it's a very good app and, as you say, the price is right...
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    Are map stitching errors in EFBs common?

    Actually, Avare does have the overlap problem. I'm not talented enough to post screenshots but here's an example: just east of Wichita the legend for Lloyd Stearman Field is cut off. Avare lets you get the data you need by touching the airport symbol for a second; you'll get a menu and by...
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    Any Composite Building DVDs?

    Clio Crop Care's video about Quickie 2 construction is being posted on the site http://www.QuickHeads.com by Dan Yager; look under "Videos" for the "Green Video". I don't know if the posting is complete yet, but there are quite a few segments there. Rick N.
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