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Search for this post, which I wrote last year after a throttle linkage disintegration incident occurred in my plane:

Runaway plane - serious mishap - throttle cable

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"Wired Magazine" visited Oshkosh and posted an online article on July 30th about the high-volume of traffic that the ATC handles during the show. Of all the hundreds of planes to cho ...

My Model IV - 1200 Rotax 912UL suffered major wing and prop damage today after striking the corner and face of a concrete hangar due to a throttle cable malfunction.

After a normal start this morni ...

I found myself in exactly your predicament last spring. I owned the plane, had no time in type, and couldn't get insurance.

My solution was very close to what Guy Buchanan suggested, but with a twi ...

Even though several months have passed since you heard about the problem, it was not actually solved until 10 days ago. We tried each of the numerous suggestions that were offered but in the end, I ha ...

Well, brainiacs, I've got a puzzle for you in the Rotax ignition department.

We last flew the KF (a 1993 Model IV - 1200) in June/08, ten hours of flying over two days, from Arizona to its new home ...

The plane was for sale, as noted above.

Here's the link to the ad in MyPlane.com:

http://www.myplane.com/ad/1072#%20self
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Rich Cunningham
Model IV - 1200 - 912
SF East Bay

Thanks, everyone, for chiming in on the black paint issue.

I did a little digging across the web and found a graph (attached below) that portrays surface temperature as a function of paint colors. ...

Paint jobs that are predominantly black are rather rare but I've come up with a re-paint scheme that is exactly that, although the design includes substantial red and orange stripes for contrast.

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I bought it from him this morning. He does not produce them.

The history is kind of interesting as apparently it was some creative thinking between John and Dan Denney that made it a one of a kind ...