Aviation Forum / General / Homebuilt / July 2009

Dear Friends,
Remember last fall, when I was pissin' an' moaning about my email
problems?
Remember how I resolved the problems by purchasing my own domain name?

These pages regularly mention books on aircraft design by one Tony
Bingelis. Has anyone the exact references for these, preferably ISBN
numbers?
Apart from the use of imperial/US measures, would these be as much use

We're just a few weeks away from America's only fly-in pool party at our
aviation themed hotel, the Alexis Park Inn & Suites! We're located right
next to Rwy 25 in Iowa City, IA (KIOW).
Here is your official invitation:

I've been chasing down some tach-indication problems lately, and as part
of it, I installed a borrowed tach in the Fly Baby.  I'm ready to put
the original tach back in, but would like to change the hour meter to
reflect the time that was flown with the temporary tach in place.  ...

The big problem here is that air cooled engines are different from
water cooled engines, and while we can find lots of good information
of breaking-in a newly assembled engine, it turns out that 99% of it
has to do with WATER COOLED engines.  Which turns out to be Bum Dope

In responding to the anonymous poster's load test anxiety, I let the
facts run away from me.
Here is the test question:
You have supported a 1000 lb airplane upside down, and wish to apply a

I was browsing with homebuilt for a keyword, and ran into that
delightful web site that features Goat, Bug, and kindred ultralight
gliders or as he prefers to think of them, flying chairs.
It's not so often you run into free for downloading drawings, in various

I was getting ready to install a replacement manifold on the old Mercury
and it occurred to me I ought to be pretty sure my torque wrench didn't
strip the aluminum threads.  The Snap On dial wrench hasn't been
recalibrated for 30 years and the Craftsman torsion bar wrench is too

I'm looking for a simple design for nose wheel steering for
retractable gear. Any ideas?
Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired