Rigging the Nosewheel for a Cessna Style Tow Bar

This didn’t really fit anywhere else, but we finally bought a tow bar. It’s a Cessna Style, and we’re using our nose pant standoff and some washers as the attachment point for the tow bar. For formatting only Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisci elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore […]

More on Engine Oil Cooling

It’s Deja Vu all over again. I swore that we wouldn’t fly with these soft aluminum tubes again, and here we are about to do it. So, a couple of things, we’ve studied carefully how you’re supposed to insure that your flares are good. Secondly, if we find that the larger hard tubing does give […]

Engine Exhast Pipe Wrapping

I’m just now posting pictures of it, but here is out exhaust wrap. This seems to have helped our temperatures, but it’s hard to say for sure how much. Based on everything we’ve done, I’d say probably 10 degrees on our oil temperature. Exhaust wrap to keep from radiating heat to oil sump

NACA Vortex Generators

Here you can see where we’ve added a couple of vortex generators to each NACA to try and improve cooling to the engine. I also made tabs on my slip joints for the runners to allow us to tighten them down. NACA Vortex Generators

Oil Temperatures Increased Today

Well last night was a real disappointment. We flew with our instrumentation, and our temperatures went up. The oil cooler in the nose was reducing the oil temp by 20 degrees, which seems to indicate that we’re not getting enough oil flow to the cooler. In other news, the manometer did NOTHING. Yea, go figure. […]

Getting Instruments to Troubleshoot our High Oil Temperatures

We were rained out of our test flying last night, and probably will be again tonight. This is very disappointing, as every day I feel like we’re learning more and getting closer to solving our oil temperature issues. What we have done in preparation for that next test flight is installed vortex generators ahead of […]