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Volunteering
with the B-17
THE EAA's signature airplane makes a stop in Utah
where RVer Jeffrey Klug gives us a little insight
-- and an occasional glimpse at an RV, too!
(Word doc)
Getting
out alive
When the prop stops spinning, and you set it down
in the middle of nowhere, now what? (Plane &
Pilot)
New
TAF format
The gov is changing from a 24-hour format to a 30-hour
format. (FAA).
Lycoming
to approve MoGas
Lycoming Engines announced an unleaded automotive
gasoline approval program for its standard compression
ratio O-360 and IO-360 product lines. (ANN)
RVator
online
Unless you pay close attention to VAF, folks have
no way of knowing it's been published. (Van's)
Builder
Profile: Jim Comer
Sumter, South Carolina (EAA 242 newsletter)
Engine
operation: Doing it right
A builder-pilot related that when he leveled off
at 8,000 feet
and advanced the throttle of the normally aspirated
Lycoming
engine to maximum manifold pressure for cruise,
the engine became rough, to the point that he aborted
the flight and returned to the airport. He made
two mistakes according to Dick Koehler. (Sport Aviation)
Pancakes
still fly off breakfast table here
Oregon Weekly calendar item featuring RV-12 and
Van.
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RV
BUILDING |
The Holy Cowl
After
you experience the fun of building an RV, you get the
fun of flying an RV. Then you get the fun of making changes
to the RV. Tom Berge, of Plymouth, Minn., is one of the
best at experimenting with and providing data on modifications
to his airplane. In this quarter's newsletter of the Minnesota
Wing of Van's Air Force, Tom writes, "I started the
project around the middle of February expecting about
a month of downtime. The basic cowl install was pretty
straightforward with few issues. The pressure plenum and
carburetor air box turned out a little different. The
biggest issue with the plenum was it did not fit the cowl.
The inlet spread on the plenum at 24” did not match
the cowl openings
at 23.5”. I noticed the difference early on, but
stubbornly kept fighting it, knowing full well what I
had to do. The actual fix was a very simple splice. (Read
more - pdf)
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Pilot
pulled from crumpled plane
 At
first, rescuers feared the worst, but 68-year-old Noel Drew of
South Africa was alive and and in a stable condition in the hospital.
His RV-6 plane crashed on Sunday, just before landing on a friend's
Assegay farm. The power cables lying just metres from the crash
site were evidence of the plane clipping them while landing, but
a wind-shear may have caused it to hit the cables. (The
Mercury)
Related links:
Botswana
fly-out 2006
Northeast
RV fly-in
 Being,
originally, a kid from Massachusetts, I've never quite understood
why anybody would consider Pennsylvania to be part of the Northeast,
but the Northeast RV Fly-in was held last week in, ummm, Pennsylvania.
(VAF)
Picture
sets:
Louise
Hose
Gregg
Swartley
Fernando
Related Links:
Bobby
Hester pictures of KY Dam Airport (M34) 1st
Annual Fly In Breakfast. (Ohio
Valley RVAtors thread)
Returning
to the runway
Last
week, the Hotline presented an article on the 180 degree turn
from Chapter 1410's newsletter. That spawned this e-mail from
Roy Willis of the Tennessee Valley RVators:
The graphic and the text indicate a 45 degree right turn and a
subsequent 270 degree turn that in a no wind condition brings
you back to a 45 degree right turn to align with the runway.
An old time instructor and examiner taught me and many others
a procedure taken from the Navy in World War II. The Navy used
a maneuver called the Williamson turn to recover overboard sailors.
It was named after John Williamson who devised the maneuver as
a Navy officer. Williamson became very prominent in auto dealer
circles after WW II.
The Williamson turn consists of an initial 90 degree turn to the
right and a subsequent 270 degree turn back to the left. In a
no wind (or current) condition, this brings you back on the reciprocal
course of the runway (ship track). Properly done this leaves more
time on final for adjustment and requires no subsequent turn to
align with the runway as does using only a 45 degree initial right
turn.
In both Private and Commercial training in the early 70's, I practiced
both approaches and found the 90 degree initial turn much more
comfortable and presented me with a much easier final approach
workload.
Related thread:
Return
to the runway after engine failure (VAF)
Required reading:
Lauran Paine Jr: Engine failure on takeoff - June '08 Sport Aviation
mag (shame on EAA for not making this article available online).
The mineral
oil myth
You can spot a hot thread even before it gets hot sometimes. Like
this one on VAF, based on an article called "The mineral
oil myth" published in 2003. "Aircraft piston engines
break-in just fine on ashless dispersant oil, so why do engine
manufacturers still require break-in using straight mineral, non-ashless
dispersant oil?" It asks. Oh yeah, this one's going places.
(More)
Grounded
plane provides lift
When students in Brian Lussier’s aviation technology class
at East Greenwich (RI) High School first saw the small airplane
shipped in from New Orleans, a film of grease coated its frame.The
single-engine plane — an RV-7, sold in kit form by Van’s
Aircraft, of Aurora, Ore. — had been under seven feet of
water in its hangar for at least a week in the wake of Hurricane
Katrina, in September 2005. It was just the type of clean-up and
repair project that Lussier’s students welcomed. (More
from the Providence Journal Bulletin
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CA: Marysville. Golden West EAA REgional
Fly-in. Ends tomorrow (Sunday). More
IA:
RV Fly-in. Boone. Saturday June 14. Coffee at 8 a.m.
Forums seem to revolve around the RV-10. (More)
PA:
Greenville. June 21, 2008. Fly-out in memory of Dan
Lloyd. 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Greenville Airport (4G1)
FunPlacesToFly.Com
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FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY |
FIELD
TRIP TO THE HANGAR
 When
you're in a dying industry, it's impossible not to be
be very careful about taking the large steps one needs
to take along the way. As I am at the "spending big
money stage," and since I'm aware I'm in a dying industry,
there is a fair amount of uncertainty over the project
right now. And yet, I don't care. (More)
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FORUM SCHEDULE AT OSHKOSH |
THE
RV-12
Tuesday
7/29
8:30 - 9:45 a.m.
Discussion about building and flying a Van's RV-12
from a pilot's perspective. Van presents. Forum
Building 7 (The big one) More...
FIBERGLASS
FOR RVs
Tuesday
7/29
11:30-12:45 p.m.
Composite Workshop 16
Sam James demonstration of fairing with use of glass;
correct procedures and use of glass. (Editor's note:
This, again, is a horrible place for this forum.
It needs to be on stage with a projected view. Get
their early. If you're not in the first dozen or
so, you can't see anything). (More).
RV-10
TO ECUADOR
Tuesday 7/29
2:30-3:45 p.m.
Pavilion 9
Steve Saint took a flight in an RV-10 down to Ecuador
to have it repainted, a new panel and new interior
was a great adventure. A non-stop from Costa Rica
to Cozumel, Mexico then across the Caribbean to
Key West and landed with 30 gallons of fuel, it
wasn't around the world, but this sort of trip is
an easy "one stopper" for the new generation
of Experimentals like the RV-10. (More...)
SO
YOU WANT TO BUILD AN RV
Wednesday 7/30
11:30-12:45 p.m.
Ken Scott tells you what you need to know. (More...)
BULDING
AN RV FASTER AND BETTER
Wednesday 7/30
1 p.m. -2:15 p.m.
Techniques, Tools & Tricks for Building an RV
Aircraft Better and Faster from Wally Anderson.
(More...)
MY
RV-6 WITH A ROTARY ENGINE
Thursday 7/31
8:30-9:45 a.m
Forum 2
David Atkins will share his 14 years of flights
in a rotary engine. He has flown to Oshkosh for
EAA AirVenture for 14 consecutive years and to Lakeland,
Fl four times in his RV-6. He'll discuss some of
his fun and experiences of RV flying, as well as
improvements he's made over the years. (More).
THE
RV FROM AN ENGINEER'S PERSPECTIVE
Thursday 7/31
8:30-9:45 a.m.
Pavilion 7
Discussion of Van's RV kitplanes from an engineering
perspective from Van. (More)
FIBERGLASS
FOR RVs
Thursday
7/31
11:30-12:45 p.m.
Composite Workshop 16
Sam James demonstration of fairing with use of glass;
correct procedures and use of glass. (More).
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Fiberglassing
the canopy
In one of the next Hotlines, I'd like to feature photos and tips
from folks who have made the fiberglass skirt around the front
of their canopies. If you want to just send
me URLs to existing online pages you've developed, that's
fine.
D-Sub
pin extraction made easy
Let's consider the features and functionality of a typical insertion/extraction
tool for connectors having removable pins. In this case, I show
a tool for D-Sub connectors. There are semi-standard colors for
extraction tools of various application to assist the technician
in picking the right one out of the tool box. For the D-sub tool,
the white end is for extraction and the red end is for insertion.
(AeroElectric
Connection... more)
Chart
holder
"I have seen a few chart/map holders on various posts, and
thought I would post pictures of one I made from surplus material
and installed in my 9A. It folds up against the sidewall when
not in use, and clears the stick in extreme maneuvers. (More
on VAF)
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PICTURE
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Fernando
-- I don't have an actual name that I can find online
-- took this picture at the Pennsylvania fly-in. It's
a testament to the depths RVers will go to follow
some whimsy A honey-themed RV? I never would've thought
of it. And I sure wouldn't have been able to design
or paint it.
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