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    Tell me why it's impossible, I'll tell you how I did it.

    I much like your idea of bumper stickers. Go ahead and design them and set up for an initial run and I will pay for them and we can distribute a few to each chapter that wants them - see how they go. One thing I can attest to, back then Vietnam really was sort of the wild west, and C-130E pilots...
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    Tell me why it's impossible, I'll tell you how I did it.

    The actual term for that kind of tenacity is called "counterdependence" I was told that by a shrink many years ago, 1971 to be exact after I had been shot down over Bien Hoa and later ended up at Walter Reed Medical, with a poor prognosis, even that I might not walk again with fractures of L-1...
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    A Colorado Firm Claims It Can Triple the Power of Electric Engines

    You are quite correct. In Yiddish the actual connotation is "****"
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    Anyone building Airdrome Aeroplanes Morane-Saulnier Type LA (75% Scale)

    While I am not building a Moraine, I have built a VW powered Eindeker but found it to be somewhat underpowered. I am currently building a full scale SE5a to exact plans, only with a few modern upgrades such as brakes, instrumentation, and since an original Hispano Suiza is made from "unobtanium"...
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    Humor

    The Spanish Air force has recently announced that they will no longer fly in bad weather. In Spain, the planes fall mainly in the rain....
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    Gm engine weights

    I converted a 63 Buick 215 engine, along with reduction drive of 1.6 for my full scale SE5a replica. All aluminum block & heads, and with a few basic mods, boring, head work, cam & carburetion, dyno readings of 237 HP at 4800 rpm. Complete weight with redrive 318 lbs. These engines are still...
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    Honda B20B Belt PSRU

    Yes, even though the pulleys were initially set up parallel, the belt had a tendency to "walk" at high speed. This has since been corrected, but not without a bit of fussing and a few unsavory words. Otherwise I am so far satisfied with the drive, but once a prop is fixed we shall then see how...
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    Honda B20B Belt PSRU

    Why not Minot? Well, happened that I knew a warrant (we still had some then) who worked in CBPO at Randolph where orders were being cut, and he did the selection. Why? You want to go to North Dakota? My dad was there during WWll and then shipped to Mildenhall UK, where I also spent time many...
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    Honda B20B Belt PSRU

    Well, yesterday we ran the Honda B20B on the dyno again and did some tweaking. The boost now set to 7 lbs. and found a small vacuum leak. This time the engine put out 223 HP at 5350 RPM - not bad for an old rice burner and did not have any high test avail, running on 89 with ignition at stock...
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    Honda B20B Belt PSRU

    Marc and I should organize a reunion of those who were at Ft Bragg or Pope. Yep we did LAPES runs in Vietnam but only when needed, since many of the strips were just carved dirt strips out of the jungle and not long enough to perform a normal landing, even with a C-130. I have a few photos on my...
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    Honda B20B Belt PSRU

    OK guys, lot's of questions so I will address what I can. LAPSE brings back lot's of memories, as I was in one of the first groups of pilots trained in them. In 1969 we did a demonstration at Ft Bragg (Pope AB) called Operation Brass Strike. The third aircraft in our string was too far to the...
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    Honda B20B Belt PSRU

    The lower crank drive is dampened by the clutch plate with torsion springs which is fixed to the flywheel (no pressure plate) and transferred thru the modified input shaft to the lower cog pulley and works perfectly. Yes, I thought about a number of things although I am not a trained engineer...
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    Honda B20B Belt PSRU

    Have not run it with a prop as the dino simply can not be hooked up with same, as well as the run stand you see is close to the ground and I am having Culver make up a special prop based upon the given parameters, likely 80 X 48. I can tell you that with more modern lightweight materials and...
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    Honda B20B Belt PSRU

    Gentlemen: I have been lurking here for some time, but now thought it might be appropriate to offer a glimps of my latest redrive which I purpose built for my supercharged Honda B20B engine, slated for my in progress SE5a full scale replica. The photos are mostly self explanatory, and should the...
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    Rocket 3 engine?

    Thanks for the reply. Yes, the engine is still on Ebay and not certain why you were unable to find it. Likely listed in the bike section. The engine was not rebuilt, but only had 17K when the owner smashed up the front end and was parted out. It is still for sale and iIdid go through the engine...
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    Rocket 3 engine?

    I just posted my 2005 Rocket lll engine on ebay. It was slated for my experimental project (SE5a) but open heart surgery has now rsulted in loss of my medical so decided to liquidate my projects at age 74. The engine has only 17k and gone through very thoroughly and complete to the smallest...
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    WWI SE5 built from "Replica Plans"

    I had started to build a full scale SE-5 and had completely engineered and assembled a Buick all aluminum V8 195 HP, along with a custom redrive of 1:6 that bolts directly to the Buick bellhousing. With advancing age and health problems I have now decided to abandon the project, so if anyone...
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    Metal Lathe

    For more than thirty years I used an old Southbend that was still reliable even when we moved and it was sold to make room - a mistake. Since then I have purchased two different Chinese made lathes, one a Grizzly. These machines use very cheap plastic gears, pathetic belt drives, and components...
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    Third homebuilt, Fleet model 7

    To respond to Bob's message, yes there is a "guibo" unit, actually a stock Mercedes unit with the stock drive shaft cut down and fitted to the input of the PSRU, just a bit difficult to see in the photo and resides at the flywheel. Bob was kind enough to send a link on guibo's, but trust that I...
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    Spacewalker

    A few years back I built a Spacewalker ll, powered by a 110 hp Corvair and it was a nice flying airplane, save for the fact that the Corvair had some reliability issues. During a visit to Sun & Fun, Serenity was showcasing a factory finished Spacewalker ll and they were asking some ridiculous...
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