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Most likely you will have an oral questioning period with your examiner before you go flying. Be prepared for that. I had to have a cross-country trip of so many nautical miles (I don't recall how f ...

I'm looking to put the Suzuki G13bb engine with the Raven re-drive system in my 701 as well. From what I've read there is not much, if anything, bad to say about the engine. My problem has been loca ...

Ray,

Does Raven supply the motor mount for the 701 or did you have to fabricate you own? What cowl are you using?

Bryan Ekholm

Art,
I used a hard plastic hammer to start the bend on the nose tips and then used the hammer and a piece of smooth aluminum bar to tap out the waves. If you keep working it over with the metal bar ...

There is another metal supply business in Rogers, Minnesota called TW Metals. I haven't used them but you might want to give them a try. There is also a metal supply in St. Michael on Hwy 241 I thin ...

When I bought .016 sheet 6061T6 from Erickson Metals I paid about $54 a sheet about five years ago. $233 sounds extremely high. They must have misquoted somehow. You may want to try Discount Steel ...

For all of my smaller formed pieces on my 701 I've drilled #30 tooling holes through the forming blocks and piece being formed and then used my old #30 drill bits through the holes to keep things alig ...

Kevin,
I bought my sheet and plate aluminum from Erickson Metals in Coon Rapids, MN, a suburb to the North-West of Minneapolis. The Aluminum tube I picked up from Discount Steel and Aluminum in Minn ...

It's probably too late for you to do this, but I had the aluminum supply shop shear my wing spar webs, the flaperon pieces, and slat parts to the exact dimension from the 12' sheet. They charged $5 p ...