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    some advice?

    Vision appears to have stalled on takeoff I have been trying to find signs of life on the Vision also. I have chased down several paths, and have yet to find any active builders. Either the plane is too difficult to be built by average builders, or the initial builders ALL had a run of bad...
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    Vision Aircraft

    It's dead, Jim. It is no more. It has ceased to exist. If there are people still building, they are keeping a big secret. As near as I can tell, only two flying. No other completions. It looked like a good design and a good build project. -Norm
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    Vision Aircraft

    I am really interested in building one of these, but am a bit concerned that there appears to be only two of these flying. Plus, there are few builders sites, and most of these have not been updated in the past two years. Are there any additional Visions getting close? Any active discussion...
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    Composite RV8

    Is the Vision still around? I have been looking for another plane to build and the Vision looks really nice. I like plans built, I like composite, I want a two place docile machine that my kids can learn to fly. But there doesn't seem to be any active builders anymore, all of the websites are...
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    Composite mess

    In my opinion, there are three basic big chunks to building a composite airplane. The basic construction of all the major composite parts. The filling, finishing, priming, and painting. The installation of the powerplant, instrumentation, auxilary systems, etc. In my opinion, there...
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    cooling liquid engines with wet wings

    Fuel cooler? If diesel fuel gets too hot, it loses lubricity, and you score your injector pump. If it gets too cold, it gels, and your engine stops. Running winter diesel will help with the gelling problem, but cold winter temperatures (worse at high altitudes) may require fuel tank/line...
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    Lifting Tails?

    The canard airfoil is relatively inefficient and draggy. It is also quite heavily loaded. Thus, what you gain in having two lifting surfaces you give away in efficiency of the canard. The disturbed airflow into the prop also hurts on the efficiency side. The concept of the canard being...
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    fabricating an engine mount

    I'm learning to weld! I'm taking a welding course through work, and we have been working with the production MIG welders. It's fun to lay a bead of .035 wire at 24.5 volts and 425 inches per minute feed! (That is a lot of bead in a hurry!) I have one of the little flux core mig welders at...
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    Label that Cable

    Another technique I used one of the Brother P-touch label makers. They sometimes have affordable ones at the office stores, around $30 or so. I would print the function of the wire, twice, and then stick it around the wire like a flag. I did not label the wires where it was obvious what...
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    Forming Canopies - Building an oven

    Blown Canopy Check this link out for more ideas. http://www.wisil.recumbents.com/wisil/bubbles/hpvbubbles.htm We need thicker and better material, but the process looks like it would work in a similar manner. Regards- Norm
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