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    Plywood Weight Comparison

    Advising substitutes is tricky. No one is going to just find mahogany ply locally without living next to ACS or Wicks or a boat place. The big thing is glue. If it’s waterproof then I’m not as concerned. I don’t know if they use waterproof glue, but hollow door skin, if it is, would be a...
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    Wing spar sizing

    The Grumman American planes might have a rear spar to hang the flight controls on, but there is no fuselage connection. The flight control torque tubes span under the fiberglass filler panel all natural. The AA5 has some aluminum bulkhead support inside the fiberglass for stepping on but the...
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    Why are alternators so heavy?

    There are some new pad mount out runner alternators that look promising. My original thought that we were going to run an AC buss like an airliner
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    Wing spar sizing

    I was doing an annual on an AA1. It’s a signature of Jim Bede designs.
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    Perfect Rivets

    Tricks. Use the smallest rivet gun you can get away with. Find the best set you can that doesn’t set too deep. Use the heaviest bucking bar you can. Push as hard as you can on the rivet gun and bar just marginally less. If you can see the bar, try and drive it level. Stick masking tape on the...
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    Wood Monocoupe Replica?

    I don’t think there is all that much wood difference from what I remember. A big Warner might puff it out some but little wood stringers for covering doesn’t matter that much to me as effort. That’s just the way they did it. Much higher end aircraft over a Cub. A friend had a 110. I tripped...
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    Wood Monocoupe Replica?

    I was thinking there was a UL that was more Monocoupe looking with the bowed longerons. I do like the mini air racer version though.
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    Wing spar sizing

    I just finished an annual on a single spar aircraft. It and it’s cousins all use one aluminum round tube spar nesting in another attached to the fuselage. I believe about 6” diameter and looked to be about.090” wall thickness. There is no drag spar and the bolts that hold it on mostly keep it...
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    Electric Dakota Hawk

    Someone copying just one isn’t the angle. It’s someone who digitizes their own copy and shares and it escapes to the wild or hangs their shingle out. The Russian Build Shop does that. Most of their stuff was siphoned off the internet. I’m not debating right or wrong, its not hard is my point...
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    Limbach VW Engines

    When they had the golf tournament here, the Snoopy blimp would be there for advertising. Pre TV they would circle downtown doing their advertising thing; my airport was just north of downtown. The pilots would get board and do low passes across the runway if clear. They would call for the...
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    Wood Monocoupe Replica?

    I thought there was a single seat mini Monocoupe out there. It would be just as easy building a Monocoupe as a Cub.
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    Puzzling out my electrical system

    How old is the starter? It’s probably 40 years old. Was it new when installed? It’s a bet no. While these are all assumptions, I bet it’s lost a strand or two of the windings. The old starters are super tough and simple and that’s why they keep going even with something like this. If it went...
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    Electric Dakota Hawk

    I imagine they think the plans have been duped a million times and have them priced high enough that if you Really want them, it’s worth their effort at that price . Otherwise like so many things, bootleg them. Our sense of fair play is what is on trial. They are not interested in breaking...
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    Has anyone spun a Zenith 601?

    I’m sorry I forget the 601 one as the 601.
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    Electric Dakota Hawk

    No different than Boeing, Lockheed, and others in that those who owns and runs the company are not airplane people anymore. They are business people who are trying to get the most out of the least, hence Boeings problems now. Not airplane people anymore. Recently I have been wanting pictures...
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    Resurrecting the Dyna-Cam

    The swashplate has the taper sections for the piston to keep full bearing contact all around which adds to the complexity of contact. Too wide a contact has more skidding. Oil control is tough because you don’t want a wedge of oil in front of the rolling bearings. The bearings just don’t roll...
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    Has anyone spun a Zenith 601?

    You might send Rockiedog a pm and ask him. If he didn’t, you don’t want to.
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    Boeing - Design Issues...

    My old airline and imagine all others had protocols for when a FDR or CVR could be interrogated to protect the pilots. Union stuff. I have only seen one done that wasn’t a full crash. Some of this stuff goes out over the ACARS automatically, but what is picked by the airlines themselves...
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    Formula-I?

    Come on VB you should know better. Direct drive, the torque is the game. Calculating, A-40 makes around 80 pound feet at 2500 rpm, where a motor at 4000 rpm making the same hp is only making 50. Add a gearbox to the 4000 rpm and spin the prop at 2500, that prop sees 80 pound feet. No...
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    Scale sandwich composite Honda jet build condensed to 14 minutes

    That’s Tyler Perry’s builder. Perry is into jets models. A model plane that size if it came as a kit and needed to be dressed out with every would be $25,000 with you putting it together. I think Perry has a couple of dozen of these. I think the guy building these probably has the best...
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