N44VF Registered with the FAA

We’ve received our registration from the FAA for our N number, 44VF, and have been building our exhaust augmentation system. For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid […]

2005 – N2992 – Paul Connor – SQ2000 – St. Elmo, AL – 1

Paul Conner was killed in his SQ2000 “Rotor EZ” when, upon departure, there was an apparent engine failure. Witnesses believed that Paul was trying to make it back to the field, there is also speculation that the airplane may have suffered a ‘deep stall’ {see write-up}. Rotor-EZ N2992 Accident Evaluation Preamble: I was asked […]

Wing Root Fire Protection

Here, we’re installing Fiberfrax and Stainless Steel onto the wing-roots as the factory-recommended fire protection for this area. As you can see, I’ve made a kraft paper template, then a rigid cardboard template, then cut the Fiberfrax, and still had to trim the stainless some after cutting the pattern out of it. Paper Templates Cardboard […]

Exhaust Installed

Another week’s vacation spent working on the plane. We got lots of little things done, and I think we’ve officially reached the mythical “80% done, 80% to go stage”. The completed exhaust has been installed, and the fuel servo was mounted and ducted along with the oil cooler. The last of the engine (EGT, fuel and oil pressure) instruments […]

Mounting the Fuel Servo

The fuel servo installation has been fun. I ended up doing a fair amount of research, and even bought “Aircraft Fuel Metering Systems” from Aircraft Technical Books to make sure I knew what was going on here. Here’s a nice drawing I found. From the schematic you can see that the manual mixture control arm is nearest […]

Oil Access Door

Here we marked where the oil access on the top of the motor is on the cowling, and cut a 5″ hole. Then a 5 BID flange is made behind it in the standard way. Later the inside edge will be made straight with a hinge, and then a Hartwell latch door release will be […]