Ultralight And Sport Pilot AviationYes, I could hear the whistling over on the FL East coast. Posted by: "abidfarooqui2003" Wed Jun 28, 2006 11:36 am (PST) In...
Naw. There just pretty high and mostly naked. Most can whistle after trying for awhile. Got 3 hrs flying today before it hit 85 degrees. I did listen for the...
I do have one picture just after take off of the kolb. I take a lot of pictures but have trouble taking a picture of me doing a fly by. You can find this...
If you would like to see a BMW on a Pegasus trike, go to my triking buddy's website and check it out. Alex's site is www.windsandwings.com See the "Back to the...
Hi Guys, Today we took the doors off of the Apollo Foxand flew it around at 60-70 knots in hot humid conditions in Florida here. Very nice at 3800 RPM. With...
Hi, The blue paint on my yellow over blue 1993 S-6 has become a bit faded over time, (particularly on the fuselage) and no longer matches the blue on the cowl....
You can use any paint over it. The clear is also paint, just without pigment. The tough part will be to get it clean enough to accept paint without fish...
Hi, Yes but putting it on now is going to take more skill. there are welded metal cage rods under the lexan. Kind of hard to squeegee all the way through but e...
Everytime I see one of those lexan bubble tops, I smell roasting turkey. A guy I know just bought sportplane and had to put put a sliding cloth shade in it. I...
That's interesting. But hell with it. We will just replace the tops with new assembly that gets the lexan tinted before it gets rivetted into the metal ...
You don't need to have the garbage (eventually peels off) film put on it if you replace what you just installed. You can buy tinted lexan. I would still check...
Hi Mark, Tinting those areas back and top have absolutely no concern with certification. Read the ASTM design standard for further clarification. Yes I think a...
I have a question for the Fly-UL Brain Trust... I have the opportunity to change the gear ratio to anything I want on my Drifter. I have a 618 on it with a 68"...
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the prop manufacturer is the best source for the answer. There is an optimum pitch that the prop is the most efficient. It is calculated to speed and hp. call...
Abid, I don't understand. With a slower turning prop, isn't the torque effect reduced because it is the engine and prop rotation that is requiring input...
Moose I've been running the 503 with a warp drive 3 blade prop, with the 3:47 to 1 gear ratio for several years now. You can't hear the trike coming until...
My Phantom has a 3 blade Warpdrive. 503 'C" box. I have been told it is quieter than similar planes. I has a muffler though. Little, after the expansion...
Wayne Flemington a local mechanic told me to be careful chopping the throttle with the Warpdrive 3 blade. He said it was hard on cranks because of all of the...
... I run the 3.47:1 C box on the Kolb with a 68" 3-blade taper tip warp drive with pretty good results. I don't know off hand how it would compare to a...
Well Moose, try a 582 with 2.62:1 RR C box and then a 582 with a 4:1 RR gearbox with the same prop (of course pitched differently) and you will have the...