Main Wing and Canard Vortex Generators

We haven’t installed them yet, though I’ve purchased the VG’s from CCI in New Jersey. These can be used in front of a NACA duct to improve attached cooling air flow into the duct, or on the wings. The factory provides a template for installing these on the wings since it’s critical that the lift remain […]

Installing the Training Handle

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.

Cessna Style Tow Bar Rigging

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 […]

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