September 2024
Precision flight record: STOL CH 701
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Precision flight record: STOL CH 701
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Banana Slot Covers Revisited ... and a Confe…
Plagued by dirt dauber wasps in my hangar, years ago I made banana slot covers as those pesky little critters loved to build mud nests just inside and above the slots. I made a "famous last words" s…
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Banana Slot Covers Revisited ... and a Confe…
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Legacy Flight Down the Canyon for Grandma
My grandma was born in 1930. She grew up in the tiny unincorporated community of Agness, Oregon in the historic Lucas Lodge. Agness is a community nestled on the Rogue River, which until the year a…
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Legacy Flight Down the Canyon for Grandma
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Short flight to Decorah Iowa
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Short flight to Decorah Iowa
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August 2024
Missing pages?
I'm looking over my CH750 plans and starting to bend metal for a scratch built Cruzer.
The plans for the tail and wings are complete but the fuselage pages only cover the assembly. For example page…
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Missing pages?
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Whirlwind propellers sold to Hartzell
Got an email today telling me effective 1 September my next phone call to Whirlwind will be routed to Piqua, Ohio, home of Hartzell propellers and its newest acquisition, Whirlwind propellers. All ma…
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Whirlwind propellers sold to Hartzell
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July 2024
Oil Separator Catch Bottle
My 750 STOL has a Jabiru 3300 with a Motion Aero oil separator. This has worked great and I have very scant drainage from the separator's vent tube, which terminates just below the lower firewall's…
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Oil Separator Catch Bottle
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June 2024
Reusable oil filter
My first cleaning of the K&P S1 filter installed on my Viking 130 engine.
Easy to disassemble. I cleaned the screen with gasoline and a nylon brush. It also has a built in magnet. Sure beats cutt…
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Reusable oil filter
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May 2024
homemade tug
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homemade tug
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April 2024
Sensenich 2EOU5 Carbon Fiber Prop/Jabiru 330…
I was running a "late Gen 2" Jabiru 3300 with a Sensenich carbon fiber ground adjustable prop and had a prop strike sometime back. The prop was deemed not repairable (and has been discontinued) by S…
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Sensenich 2EOU5 Carbon Fiber Prop/Jabiru 330…
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March 2024
Engine Monitoring
In setting up my Gen 4 Jabiru 3300 on my CH750 STOL and doing the test flights in 2021 I was frustrated with the poor charting available from my MGL EMS data files. I am fairly handy with Excel, but…
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Engine Monitoring
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November 2023
October 2023
N631DG: Zenith CH 650 powered by Corvair
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N631DG: Zenith CH 650 powered by Corvair
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September 2023
STOL CH 801
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STOL CH 801
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July 2023
Zenith's Oshkosh Preview
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Zenith's Oshkosh Preview
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Daddy, Daughter Fun Flight to Joseph, Oregon
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Daddy, Daughter Fun Flight to Joseph, Oregon
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