A side job weekend raising gear and loading bags to help with life (no RV - ugh). One cool thing that caught my attention was a ~120kt headwind around that Wx bisecting the country Sunday. Hadn’t seen that before, and wish it had been a tailwind LOL. Planning on a visit to my RV mid week, and looking forward to it!!! Hope you got to hang with the RV or RV project this weekend, and that Monday goes swell for ya.
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Soil being blown off a field in N.TX....
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Soil being blown off a field in N.TX....
It finally happened!
I first learned about Experimental Amateur-Built aircraft shortly after joining the U.S. Marine Corps in 1989. Over the years I read magazines and books about homebuilt airplanes, attended EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, and spent countless hours dreaming about what it would be like to build and fly one...
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Random thud, getting worse
RV-14A, 130 hoursTT. About thirty hours ago (two months) I noticed a random infrequent thud at cruise speed. I only noticed it crabbing into a 40 knot quartering headwind. Passenger feels the thud in their feet, I feel it with my left knee on the fuselage. Sometimes it happens once every few...
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2000 hours
Took me a hot minute to get there, but I flew past 2000 hours in my 9A today. :cool: First flight was January 2016.
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New Lycoming IO-360 with #4 cylinder hotter than the rest
AFP Injection Dual Emags standard timing While leaning at cruise and passing through peak EGT #4 becomes the coldest cylinder. I have ideas but would like a few suggestions what to look at first.
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Section 34 - Dimpling Aileron Skin for #8 Screw- how?!
If a fella doesn't have a DRDT-2 R2D2 thing - how would he go about dimpling this skin as called for in Section 34 page 12?! I have the dimple die...not sure how to go about getting it done, any advice would be appreaciated! Joe RV-15 150050
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Inverted Fuel Pickup
Hi all, can anyone tell me the physical length of the inverted fuel pick up fuel line? Have the hardware, just need to source a fuel line the correct length because they are unavailable through Vans atm. Thanks.
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The VAF List ...a list of RV-related lists. RV-related things you might want to browse over (a closed post that is sticky and maintained by dr). Link to this in 'Links' in the menu. v/r,dr Small businesses that help bring you this list of RV-related lists: 360 Avionics www.360Avionics.com Ace...
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