Aviation Forum / General / Homebuilt / January 2007

Of liaison aircraft like L-2's, L-3's, L-4's, etc. standing on their
noses.  If anybody knows of any on the net please furnish a link.
Thanks.

I'm very new to all this; isn't the spar on a Wittman Tailwind or
Buttercup a solid piece of spruce with dimensions being something like
2 inches wide x 5 inches thick x 5 feet long. The Tailwind spar kit on
the Aircraft Spruce Inc. web site doesn't list any piece of wood this

After using a lawn tractors slightly oiled, green foam filter on my
experimental with C-85, a fellow remarked that it was much too thick (about
1") as I replaced it.
Just wondering what non-certified (read cheap <G>) alternatives that others

A friend's homebuilt recently went down with an 8000 hour pilot at the
controls.  No one was hurt and the plane was landed in a field.  The
pilot reported hearing/feeling an extremely loud vibration from the
wing, he immediately killed power and landed.  One of the wings was

Trying to straighten out some settings.
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Well, here I go again, thinking instead of doing.
My plane call for control sticks just like 99% of the homebuilts out
there. But I've been considering using a control yoke (maybe cessna 150
modified) instead. To get from the yoke  controls

I'm using thin polyster fabric on my Easy Riser, and the old fabric wa
sewn together at the leading edge. The trailing edge was just glued t
the frame.
Can I simply glue the leading edge tubes to the fabric, as well a

I have a CS-10 VHF communications amplifier for aircraft band.
I have quit flying so most likely will not use again. Apparently these
are no longer available as I have not been able to find them from any
supplier anywhere for price information This one was used about 20 hours

I just acquired a WW-II Wobble pump(D-2) and would like to make a handle
for it--can anyone steer me to a picture of one WITH HANDLE ?
I have already broached an 8" length of 3/4 SQ aluminum to fit
the shaft---I'd just like to make it similar to an

Gulp...
You goys gotta see this!
 http://www.crazyaviation.com/movies/CA_SU-30.wmv

'Spin Doctor' Bill Kershner dies at 77
Pilot, flight instructor, and aviation author William K. Kershner, 77, died
January 8 in Sewanee, Tennessee, after a prolonged battle with cancer.
He soloed an Aeronca Defender from Clarksville, Tennessee's Outlaw Field - a

Ok, we have roasted the Mini 500, how about the BD5?
First things first, forget the jet. So few people could ever afford such a
thing it hardly seems viable from the get-go. But why has such a popular
design (on paper) found so little success? Thousands of people instantly fell

For a covering system (in this case SuperFlite's System 1), there
should be no problem asking SuperFlite to see their STC, right?
- Mike

Anybody here who knows someone who has one of these in the Bremerton, WA area?