I took ownership of my new engine today. Now it's time to strip all the unwanted parts off and take a good look see.  Once I strip it down I will post a video with a walk around.  If anyone is like me, you have spent hours looking for a good video of the engine, or even good pictures.  This is a 2010 Honda Fit l15a7 engine.

I had shot a video with cockpit audio showing how I do slow flight, stalls, more.

Plugging in the cable should have been on the checklist.

I am planning on "re-shooting". Any requests regarding my cockpit\701 operations?

Any other requests?

Dear fellow builders,

Winter has once again set in once again in Pennsylvania. The geese are back by the thousands. All the abandoned quarries are wall-to-wall geese. Living in a cement producing area, quarries provide safe haven from coyotes, fox and stray cats. Each morning like a living cork screw they leave in search of winter wheat, corn and bean fields. For some reason the first stop is my strip. There they hold court. I cannot identify the leader, or do they have a pa system,…

Raven Honda Fit Engine  Conversion(Pt. 2)



We're now on:  'How do we plan to optimize and streamline the auto engine to aircraft process' from our initial outline below.



Come New Years we enter our 19th year of converting auto engines for aircraft.  After doing both Reduction Drive Kits and Complete FWF Engine packages and working with a lot of great builders of all different skill sets, my number one observation of the homebuilt aircraft build process is that if you as a…

All...  Perhaps this has been said before... most probably.  I want to express my appreciation to this site and the builders and flyers who populate it for posting tips, pictures and ideas for improving my 701 as I progress toward completion.  I have copied many of the modifications and suggestions for strengthening the airframe  Anytime I feel like putting my tools down and walking away for awhile, I check out the latest on the site and my attitude changes immediately for the better.…

HondaFitAircraftEngine-Owners update as posted at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/HondaFitAircraftEngine-Owners/conversations/messages

Ron



This will be Pt. 1 of a short series on Raven Redrives goals and intended market for our new Honda® Jazz/Fit 1.5L 115/140+HP turbo engine.



Our now 18 year long endeavor to 'keep flying affordable through the adaptation…

I am starting to build a 650 has anybody regesterd the 650 with a larger weight than the 1360lb posted

Last week the Seattle area became unseasonably cold. During the past three years that the 7-Oh-Fun has been flying we had not seen temps in the 20s.

Disclaimer: No warranty is implied and no liability is accepted. This sort of preheater will require supervision. Do not leave unattended.

What to do? If necessity is the mother of invention, then the Lowe's next to the airport was the father.

I found  the following…

I guess that we are a bit like a 'sensible Santa' in our part of the world... we fly over the African Bush and look for communities that need some health education and then drop them a package!  (no chimney, no reindeer, no toys)... our Rotax 912iS powered 701 works really hard... and today we dropped over 100 packages to rural communities - some which have never had even a motorcycle to them!…

 for our "air worthiness inspection"  Almost two years to the day from start to finish..............amazing!  What a beautiful bird!

Yesterday EAA announced:

VanGrunsven, Brown, Pasahow Join EAA Board of Directors…

I finished my slats tonight and have a nice CNC made jig.  Its free to local builder if they want it.  It will be made into BTU's by Friday so speak up.

Just to update all of you that are tweaking your CH 701 and possibly your 750.  These mods probably don't add speed or short field capability - LOL - but were done to clean up the original construction.  First of all go to "my Photos" so you can see what I am talking about,

I never liked the bubble door to front post fit that I created in the original build it was noisy and drafty especially in winter. So the first item was to build new trim strips for the front pillar to…

When I adjusted the rudder cable tension the wings weren't on the plane yet and the nose gear was near the bottom of it's travel.  I had 25 pounds, both right and left.  But after the wings were on, the nose of the plane was several inches lower.  Since the firewall slants back this has the effect of loosening the rudder cables.  They are totally slack now!

Here's my question.  If I tension cables now the tension my be right on the ground, but the tension will increase drastically…

On Friday the Oct 25th and Saturday the 26th educational seminars by Jeron Smith of Raven ReDrives Inc. were held at CopperState EAA Airshow.



Jeron Smith comments about the educational seminars he presented!  To keep up with further updates, got to - - http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/HondaFitAircraftEngine-Owners/info



"Just a quick note to let folks know that I'm back from Copperstate EAA…

Is there any one out there that has a Lycoming on a 601Xl ?

What prop are you using ?