sorry to see that your selling your flybaby project. hope that things in your life are going well. your site and information to this point , are very helpful...
Well I'm working through my hinge alignment problem. The misalignment appears to be a combination of fabric tension and humidity changes. (Honest, they...
Drew: Call Arrowprop (405) 279-3833. They make all kinds of wooden propellers. They made one for our Flybaby a couple of years ago. I can't remember the...
So I got a surprise day off, with a foot on the ground and the white stuff still falling (not much snow equipment in NC), all alone in the house I finally got...
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Harry Fenton - Rockford
harry@...
Jan 3, 2002 9:44 pm
Fill it with epoxy sand it off and forget it. If it was a really bad crack in a highly stressed area I would be concerned, but the described damage doesn't...
Konrad- The very plant. It's long gone now but it was right about where 5L is now. I was there in '78, '79 and a little of '80. I've still got a picture ...
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Konrad O Schoen
konrad.schoen@...
Jan 4, 2002 12:45 am
Actually the building is still there, about 200 yds right off the end of 5L. The airport authority uses the building as a garage...
I haven't been back there in quite a while. The building wasn't much more than a garage then. You could see daylight through the walls, got a little chilly...
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Konrad O Schoen
konrad.schoen@...
Jan 4, 2002 1:48 am
This was an office/warehouse combo with orange exterior wall panels. It was closed when i was there in 87 working for Skychefs, we used it as a temporary site...
I remember bins and bins of AN hardware. The Benson B-8 gyrocopter was almost all aluminum so all components bolted together. We used refurbished two cycle...
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Konrad O Schoen
konrad.schoen@...
Jan 4, 2002 3:01 am
There was a 6 cylinder McCullogh on E-bay last week, think what a Bensen could do with that....
Thanks Harry! I felt like that might be the case, but just wanted someone with a little more experience to say so. I'm taking my rudder and stab to the EAA 506...
I have my control surfaces rehung. The majority of the misalignment was in the elevators and rudder, with the majority of the deviation at the centre hinge as...
Aircraft Spruce offers a 14 gallon Fly Baby fuel tank (P/N 05-18900). Have you considered a used tank? The FB airframe is designed for a variety of tank...
WagAero has axle bushings which allows you to adapt Cleveland wheels and brakes. Check out used prices from salvage yards as their prices are about 50% of...
Larger tanks take up more space. The Aircraft Spruce 14 gal. tank may require that you extend the instrument panel rearward in order to make the instruments...
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Kevin Holcomb
ksholcomb@...
Jan 6, 2002 4:44 am
I am working at laying out the fuselage (page 1-3, step 1) and have already confused myself. I am blessed/cursed with the ability to lay it out full size in...
The wheels and brakes called for are the Cub type. You should be able to use the Cleveland disk conversion set and just bolt it on. That's what I've got on...
I didn't mention before but the conversion set I was talking about is the one for Cubs. It's made for the 1 1/4" axle and has a double puck caliper for the low...
Since the discussion of gas tank sizes I measured mine up. It is labeled as 18 (I assume to be Imperial) gallon capacity, is 17" long, 20" wide and 14+" tall....
Thanks to this student pilot, CNN is taking a poll. They want to get everyones feel for making it more difficult to "access airplanes." It would behoove us to...
A company called Fox Metals in Indianapols Indiana can manafacture any size or shape of fuel tank you may need thay are not cheep but do turn out beautiful...
Bob asked about the differences in the A-65 and A-75 Continentals. My references are "Engines for Homebuilt Aircraft & Ultralights" by Joe Christy, the...
Kevin: Stations 3 and 5 are not exactly parallel if you use the exact dimensions in Fig. 1-1. While they are 27" apart at the top, note that the 27" spacing...
Bill I searched long and hard for a spring before I found one at a tractor supply company. However, the price was too steep for me and I continued my search...
Drew, I can relate to the warpage by fabric tension idea. I have covered a couple of ultralights ( around the 70knot cruise range ) with the lightweight poly...
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Kevin Holcomb
ksholcomb@...
Jan 8, 2002 11:17 pm
Thanks for the reply. Your comment about it not being 27" apart at the bottom was my concern. I am adjusting it on my layout (by about .045) so that the...
I understand the geometry and I'm STILL wasting wood. So I pull my second elevator bow out of the clamps and check it against the first, and despite having...
