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is there an inexpensive fix for this

My curiosity gets the better of me Wink

I am just wondering if a length of chord wrapped in a helical manner around the strut might stop the vibrations. It would ...

Thank the Lord in 44 years of flying GA aircraft I have never experienced an engine failure.

"Good Grief Charlie Brown" you added something 'religious' into your post ! ! !

Guy's n Ga ...

Come on folks, let's not get too hung up about these small suffix comments added to the end of some posts. As long as they don't take over the post (like this one is perilously close to doing). I find ...

I wonder how one of those throat microphone systems might work ?

http://www.planetairsoft.net/reviews/review-sniperpro.htm

Just curious.

David.

Richard- I went to the lower right corner of my screen, . . .

Alternatively, after clicking on the attachment and whilst viewing the picture, hold down the 'ctrl' button and press the '+' sign key ...

Richard, Your photo shows your fuel tanks just above your battery/electronics box. Is that right ? Perhaps it might be wise to consider some sort of cover over the electronics such that if there was a ...

Guys, I'm curious. Has anyone else had trouble viewing the pictures in my e-mail post?

Yes ! I did, but it's not an unusual occurrence with my set-up (Hotmail on Laptop running Win. Vista etc). ...

Greg, Whilst not (yet) being a Kolb owner/flyer, I would suggest you take this 'flutter' problem real, real seriously. Flutter can lead to structural failure, and not just of the aileron but of the wh ...

Does anyone, instead of swaging, use the old cable splicing technique per
http://thevintageaviator.co.nz/reference/cable-splicing ? I can recall in an earlier life as a young apprentice having to do ...

Wow, those responses were bit heavy. And yes, perhaps Barnstormers would be better, and I don't have a spare half million either, but I found it interesting enough even if a bit on the fringe of list ...

Also just FYI, I saw this 'new' prop at the AERO 2010 expo in Friedrichshafen in Southern Germany last month. It's called the QD2, a four bladed prop with a difference. That being that the two sets of ...

Just FYI, I saw this ad for sound insulating material recently.

http://www.soundexproducts.com/

David

Hesitate to mention but for really short strips . . . .

You have to be really desperate to consider this option . . . i.e. the level approach to a sloped strip. ! ! ! ! So your 'hesitation' is ...

But it also had eight VG�s spacer out on the wing ahead of the flaps. What do you make of that?

Just a FYI type update. I was at the AERO 2010 expo at Friedrichshafen in Southern Germany last ...

What do you make of that?

They're just doing their job keeping the airflow attached longer. Comes into play in different phases of flight. The aircraft I fly, a Fokker 50 twin turbo prop, even ...

At my altitude the 503 pretty much becomes a 447 LS

I note the altitude record (5th March 1989) of 'Facet Opel' microlight in Australia powered by a 447 was 29,996 Ft (9144m)

How high are you pl ...

Ps. the tyres spelling was for pat's benefit. For the rest of us replace tyre with tire.

The Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw commented that England and America are two countries separated by a ...

Will the addition of vortex generators lower my maneuvering speed?

I read an article about this some time back. It was an AvWeb article back in 1997 that I'd saved to a 'safe place'. So safe it's t ...

Just wondering how relevant comparisons to high performance WWll fighters is to the Kolb wing. They're flying at 250 kts plus, 3 to 4 times that of the Kolb (at least). A performance enhancement in th ...

Can remember, years ago, where someone dimpled the camber face of his prop blade much like a golf ball has dimples in it and got a slight increase in performance together with about 100 RPM increase a ...