Terry Schubert Visits to talk engine cooling

Terry Schubert was kind enough to come down and spend the day looking at our engine plenum, baffling, and NACA ducts to see if he could help us understand our cooling performance better. I’ve had a digital manometer for some time, but I didn’t think it was working. I’m a pump guy at work, and […]

Beginning a cooling study

Our cooling is generally fine, but on hot days when we stay in the pattern, the CHT’s get warmer than I would like. Luckily we know Terry Schubert, of CSA fame, and he’s just the guy to give us some tips. So, we setup for him to come down with some aquarium hose, air stones, and we […]

Fixing Squawks

We’ve had a couple of squawks I’ve wanted to deal with for a bit, well, at least one, Cylinder 3’s EGT had gone dead. That turned out to be just a loose wire, though I replaced it anyway. Second, I wanted to upgrade our air oil separator to the AntiSplat based on recommendations from our friends, which […]

AntiSplat Separator

Some of our friends (Andy and Mark) have reported good success with the AntiSplat system, so we’ve decided to take the plunge. We’ve always had a haze of oil on our cowling as our existing separator dumps at the cowling join line. I don’t know if the actual separator is better or if it’s mostly a function […]

MidWest Velocity Fly-in 2014

The MidWest Canard Fly-in was pretty much a rain-out this year, with 600-800′ ceilings and off of on showers, though Drew Chaplin (Cozy builder from Fort Wayne, In) and his crew did manage to fly in, but we had several local Velocity folks join us for breakfast. Of interest, though, you can see Hugh Dunn […]

First takeoff in N44VF

Elizabeth and I went flying together this weekend, and she let me handle the preflight, take-off, and about 45 minutes of flying from the right seat. We had a stationary front right over us, though, so there was a NOTAM for ‘moderate turbulence’ below 8,000′ and gusty winds, so I didn’t get any landings in. […]