Aviation Forum / General / Homebuilt / February 2005

G'day from Australia
A friend of mine has purchased a Fisher Horizon 2 STOL that was made in the
USA and imported into Australia.
The manner in which some of the construction has been done is now causing

Hey all,
 I'm looking at starting to build a premolded composite quickbuild kit
within the next few months. I'm looking to get as much practice
glassing before I get started. I've already been to the EAA sportair

I've noticed a lot of aircraft are designed to use washout at the tips
to control stall behaviour.  The idea as it was explained was that they
wanted the inboard part of the wing to stall before the outboard part
so aileron authority could be maintained a little longer.

Has anyone had experience with removing the wings on a Cherokee 140?
Need to move it to rebuild. How hard is it to re-install them. I heard
something about tapered pins or bolts.. Pete

Please excuse my ignorance, but I've been reading a lot of hoopla over 2
stroke diesel aircraft engines. Has anybody tried one of these in a Cozy or
Long Ezy? It sounds to me like that may make for a very fuel efficient
aircraft with good performance. Any reason why it can't be ...

Does anyone know what happened to AceAir in Switzerland, the company that
had that cool composite homebuilt, the Aeriks 200, at OSH '03? Both their
websites are gone, though they still show up in a whois search.

http://www.aopa.org/members/files/pilot/postcards/pinckneyville.html

I need 2 low profile nuts as noted above for my lower engine mounts.
Can't seem to locate them anywhere. Aircraft Spruce does not carry them
and they say they are only made for specific aircraft application. Any
ideas where I can find them? Thanks.

Any Kiwis here please, looking for general info on the homebuilt scene
in NZ
Cheers
Marlbra

I need 2 low profile nuts as noted above for my lower engine mounts.
Can't seem to locate them anywhere. Aircraft Spruce does not carry them
and they say they are only made for specific aircraft application. Any
ideas where I can find them? Thanks.

For an upcoming article, I'm looking for pilots who've purchased any of
the following completed (already flying) homebuilts from previous
builders:
Van's RV-4

I have been trying to research interior fire protection for use in
homebuilt aircraft, but really haven't been able to find much useful
information.  I am not talking about extinguishers which I consider
"active" protection in that you must be able to reach it and activate

As a pet/learning project I made a data aquisition unit using an 8051
microprocessor and an EPIA M motherboard running a variant of Linux to
process and display the information. It all works but the EMI from the
EPIA M causes way too much noise to the aircraft radios. I have tried

tried selling at ebay...... for free pay for shipping......
vor, altimeter, 100 feet of carbon fiber cloth
email y020181sailboat@yahoo.com(no spam)
no phone calls please

A friend of mine is selling an IO-540 out of a crashed canard.
Parallel valve, 10:1 pistons, ported and polished on a flow bench.
Airflow performance fuel injection, 2 Lightspeed igntions, B&C starter
and 60 amp alternator.  Modified, low profile sump per the Berkut