Terry Miles was kind enough to loan us a training stick that he had made up. It attaches to the main control stick and allows someone in the right seat to fly (since our stick is not ambidextrous) or to simply guide a transitioning pilot in the left seat. Here are some pictures.
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Here you can see we’ve rigged up a standard Cessna Style tow bar to use on our airplane. Right now we’re using the standard stand-offs that we rigged up for the nose pant, but I can see we’re bending these already, so we’re going to make some solid AL 3/4″ versions to use. Once we’re […]
Read MoreVelocityxl.com will be undergoing some major changes over the next several weeks, or at least I hope so. This will be VelocityXL.com Version 3.0, as we’ve had two major interfaces to the site since we first went on line in July of 2001. Although I like what we’ve done with the custom HTML/CSS/PHP, we’ve forked into three distinctly […]
Read MoreSo we pulled my vernatherm, and it doesn’t have any obvious signs of distress, though the marking on the seat is a bit uneven around the circumference. I’m looking for another unit to try, and Jerry has offered his if I can’t find another within easy reach. I’ve read that these valves can fail with […]
Read MoreAnother disappointing weekend down. I was hoping to get a flight in this weekend after we replaced our hoses with 3003 hard line. This is essentially the exact same configuration that we flew without issues in 2008, the only differences being that instead of a 3-way valve up front, the second nose cooler has been […]
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Wow was it muggy today. Jerry graciously offered to loan us some 1/2″ 3003 AL tubing to try. As I mentioned yesterday, I wan to try the larger hard wall tube to see if it increases the flow enough to really affect cooling, and if so I’ll get a harder alloy for longer duty. We […]
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