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Back Tap iPhone
….I have a double tap on the back set on my phone to run a shortcut that goes to avationweather.gov and pulls up the METAR and TAFs for my area airports. It’ neat.
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Garmin AXIS, Next Generation Integrated Flight Display
Greetings VAF! We are very excited to share information about a new Garmin product available for purchase now, for your experimental aircraft. Garmin has decades of experience innovating avionics and tailoring designs based on feedback from customers like you. In 1998, Garmin’s GNS 430 took...
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Back Tap iPhone
….I have a double tap on the back set on my phone to run a shortcut that goes to avationweather.gov and pulls up the METAR and TAFs for my area airports. It’ neat.
v/r,dr
Near-hit with a hand riveter
Working on my back riveting a cable guide to the belly, just one quick 6-4 rivet, what could go wrong? But I've had too many near-hits with my eyes so out of paranoia I put my safety glasses on, *SNAP* and Have you ever had the entire jaw assembly of a riveter come out and bounce off you? Missed...
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Help Identifying an Oil Leak
Hi, I'm hoping you can help me identify an oil leak on my RV-8A IO-360-B1B, vertical induction, Bendix-type fuel injection. I'm struggling to figure out where it's coming from. When I remove the cowl, I see oil pooled both on top of the filter air box, and around the alternate air door on the...
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Cabin heat muff - Should it rotate? How to tighten?
Greetings, my cabin heat muff rotates with some pressure and is allowing the scat tubing to move close to the exhaust and eventually develops a hole in the scat tubing. Are you able to tighten the cabin heat muff enough so that it does not rotate? If so, how do you tighten? Thanks!!!
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Baggage door a little warpy…
I finished my baggage door (Section 34) and when I mount it in the frame, I see that the bottom of the door is a little off fair. I wonder if drilling out the rivets on the close out panel and doing a little manipulation on the frame will work? The photo is attempting to illustrate that...
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Width of Lycoming Connecting Rod?
If there’s anybody sitting in their shop who happens to have access to a standard O-360 Connecting rod, I need to know how “wide” it is in the middle (by “wide”, I mean the dimension from the face that faces forward in the engine to the face that faces backwards in the engine). I’m making a new...
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Please consider donating annually to help keep this American 1-person pirate ship afloat:
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Get the cap all the cool kids are wearing! I don’t get a penny. It’s around $15. $5 more if you want your N-number on the back (I put 'STAFF' on the back of mine because it makes me laugh. Put STAFF on yours too if it makes you smile). And down the road $10 to the charity of your choice...
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