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A few years back the left door on my 701 blew off. It bulged out when a wind gust hit me head on as I was climbing out. The door was latched. As someone else said, the weather stripping on the forward ...

Good point, Bud, but I'm talking about the thin aluminum bracket that mounts on the engine block and supports the rubber mounts you speak of. This thin aluminum fatigue cracks. I've patched it a coupl ...

72" three blade Warp Drive

With 345 hours on my 701 I've had problems with head coolant radiator mount failures. The last one allowed the radiator to bump into the engine and puncture a coolant tube. Anyone else having this pro ...

I see that your additional latch secures the rear of the door. My plane's builder must have had the same problem which he fixed by riveting an aluminum tab (about an inch wide) to the rear of the door ...

Good news-bad news. A couple of weeks ago I left KMLT on a pretty windy afternoon. At about 1000' I hit a head on gust and the pilot door exploded. That's the bad. The good news was that the door latc ...