OTHER NEWS
Cleaveland has tool sale
Our inventory level is just too high after the summer show season has come to an end.

Taking flight for the fun of it
Hannah Doherty, of New Jersey, said the flight she took on a home-built, single-engine, two-seat RV-4 was similar to a roller coaster ride. (Maine Today)

Northwest flying our way
Larry and Jennifer Driver document their trip to the great northwest and provide some fabulous pictures.

PFA's 60th celebration
RVs, but lots more than just RVs. Good pictures and a fine article. (PFA)

The Anywhere Map saga
A quick quiz: what’s the biggest flying challenge when moving from a 100 knot trainer to a 160 knot speed machine like an RV-6? To me, the answer is simple: weather. (The Adventures of RV-6 N466PG)

Builder mods
Bob Axsom develops a lower cowl modification. (VAF)

Common phraseology
Do you get nervous on the radio? Me too. After a slight delay to handle a family matter, I arrived at Oshkosh just in time to do my very first radio interview. And I mean just in time. The radio interview was at 12 noon and I didn't get there until 11:30 a.m. or so. There's nothing like being in a hurry and doing something for the first time to make you nervous. (AvWeb)

RV-10 performance numbers
Just updated (myrv10.com)

Satellite weather in jeopardy?
Some in the blogosphere are worrying about two bills in Congress that they think might stop satellite broadcasters XM Radio and Sirius from sending weather data to aircraft cockpits.(AOPA)

FLYING STORIES  Who wants to drive 4 hours when you can fly in an RV and get there in under an hour? It all came together when I suggested we make it happen at Tieton Airstrip, a grass strip on Rimrock Lake up in the mountains 30 NM west of Yakima. I'd been there once many years ago and remembered it as a lovely airplane camping spot. -- Randall Henderson in EAA Chapter 105 Newsletter (pdf)

Local battery grounds
When space and/or weight-and-balance considerations for your airplane call for mounting one or more batteries remote from engine instead of on the firewall, you not only have to provide conductors for carrying the hot (+) terminals of the battery(ies) forward, the negative (-) terminals need to find your electrical system ground as well.

Since day-one, aircraft with electrical systems have (like automobiles) used the vehicle's metallic structure as a ground return for many electrical system components including the battery. From the perspective of gross functionality this technique has worked well. But, since we in the OBAM aircraft world are both more sensitive to (and able to adjust designs for optimum performance with respect to noise or cost of ownership issues that arise later for having to find and fix 'fuzzy' ground joints), there is value in considering exactly which devices might share a common airframe ground without risk of increased noise. (Bob Nuckolls on Shop Notes)
Related resource:
Basic electrical load analysis (Australia)

Rolling your own landing lights
I thought I'd share how I'm making and installing my landing lights in case someone wants to copy them or build 'em better than I am doing. They are somewhat like the Duckworks installation, but I'm doing it my own way. I have purchased everything I'm gonna need to install them, and I think it cost me about $40 TOTAL for two landing lights, one on each wing. I have not upgraded the bulbs to the Silverstars yet, but plan to. (Chad Jensen on Rivetbangers.com)

ARCHIVES See a list of previous RV Builder Hotlines organized by date and subject. (Go)

PICTURE OF THE WEEK Dan Checkoway posted this picture on the RV list. It's a humorous cap to a very serious thread, actually: the proper securing of an airplane for run-up tests. See the thread.