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Mail Sack: Builder Questions, #1 RV-9?
Builders, Here is the first of a new series, where I take actual letters from builders and answer the questions here, where the answers can serve many builders. Because the writers sent in the...
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Mail Sack: Builder Questions #2 Panther Engine
Builders, Here is the second of a new series, where I take actual letters from builders and answer the questions here, where the answers can serve many builders. Because the writers sent in the...
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Thought for the day: Challenge of an open mind
“If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books...
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Thought for the Day: What are you thankful for?
“If you have never met me, but read this and think that I am charmed with myself, you got it all wrong. I know countless humans who are better people than I. They are kinder, smarter, and harder...
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Mickey Wynne turns 87 today.
Builders, How do you express your gratitude to the person you owe your very existence to? Simply put, you can’t. My mother, Emma Marie Heuer, aka “Mickey Wynne” turns 87 years old today. She has given...
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CHT info taken from test flight of 601XL
Builders, Note: The columns in the chart are shifted over one heading, it is a discrepancy between how excel and the wordpress format here presents printed data, wordpress automatically tries to center...
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Memorial Day Reading
Builders, On this Memorial day, most Americans will limit their consideration to looking at a few bumper sticker length slogans photo shopped onto pictures of tombstones, and perhaps a cursory glance...
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Thought for the day: Basic human skills
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take...
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Thought for the day: Demand for the Truth.
. “As Scarce as the truth is, supply has always been in excess of demand.” . - Josh Billings. . ———————————————- . I came across this gem a few years ago. I might have been a lot more successful, and...
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Jump Start Engine project – Part #1
Builders; Here is a new series on engine building. It will be a detailed look at getting started that will serve many builders. The focal point of this are 10 “Jump Start” engines that we will have in...
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Jump Start Engines – part #2
Builders: Here is part #2 of the Jump Start Engine series. This one will cover some background before we move onto details. . 18 months ago I wrote a 20 part series on “Getting Started.” The entire...
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Thought for the day: The need to Know.
“It wouldn’t be Friday night without a little fun. Our neighbor Roger was having a cookout and a bonfire in his front yard just down the runway. We missed dinner, but arrived in time for the relaxing...
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Jump Start Engines – part#3
Builders, In this part, let’s look at the sub-groups that will be in the assembled short block. One of the organizational tasks I put a huge amount to effort into in 2012-13 is our Group Numbering...
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Jump Start Engines – part #4
Builders: In this section, Lets look at two elements of the closed case, The Crank Group 1000 and the Weseman bearing Group 3000. There two parts make up the crank and 5th bearing arrangement, and are...
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Zenvairs ruled the skies over the northeast!
Builders, The title above was sent in with this photo by Ken Pavlou. He now has just about completed his phase one testing, and it has gone without a single flaw. Ken organized two other Corvair/Zenith...
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Jump Start Engines – part #5
Builders In this part we look at the Camshaft Group 1100. You can refresh your thoughts on this by looking at the 2013 story I wrote about this group: Getting Started in 2013, Part #3, The Camshaft...
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25 years ago today – Courage vs Police state
Builders, Twenty five years ago today, one man, who’s identity will likely never be known, demonstrated an act of courage in an attempt to stop the government of the Peoples republic of China from...
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Thought for the Day: Aviation as an Endeavor
“At any real level, flying is not a sport, a hobby a pastime nor entertainment. It is an Endeavor, worthy of every hour of your life you invest; Those that dabble in it find only high cost, poor reward...
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Jump Start Engines – part #6
Builders, Three groups left to address in the closed case: The Case Group 1200, the Hub Group 2500, and the Rear Oil Case Group 2000. Let’s take this in order and look at the case. At the bottom of...
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Thought for the Day, D-Day at 70 years
Builders, Today marks the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the beginning of the liberation of France from four years of brutal German occupation, and the collapse of the third Reich in the West, 330 days...
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