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harley(at)AgelessWings.co
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 Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 4:51 am Post subject: Do you suppose this is why elephants are afraid of them? |
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>>As if bird's nests weren't bad enough,<<
I know that all too well...luckily it was my car, not my plane. But the incident has me being sure that every exposed hole is taped over or plugged whenever I leave the hangar now! My left wing is being painted here in my garage at home, but, since this is where the chipmunks live, even that has tape over the aileron rod hole and the tunnel where the wiring to the wing tip goes. Both ends of it!
Two years ago, I started logging 16 mpg tanks of gas instead of the usual 20-21 in my Mazda RX8. Found a chipmunk had crawled up the air intake tube and tore apart the air filter to make a nice comfy, little home! The car had only been idle for three days, so they can work pretty fast!
Besides the well matted down filter material, it was full of seeds and other edibles that chippies like to munch on while relaxing after a hard day of hunting for new homes. Luckily, nothing got THROUGH the filter, and it was just a matter of vacuuming out the filter box and replacing the filter. This incident did give me the opportunity to finally replace the factory filter with a K&N. To prevent future critter visits I also mounted a piece of 1/2 wire cloth over the air inlet.
Guess that's why they suggest you plug all the holes in your plane before you leave it for any length of time...who knows what little critter's real estate agent might sell him on the comfortable, protected little spaces in our planes!
Harley
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As if bird's nests weren't bad enough, now we have . . .
http://tinyurl.com/5vmasm
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rtitsworth
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Location: Detroit, Mi
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:11 am Post subject: Do you suppose this is why elephants are afraid of them? |
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Ref the attached article…
“…Hall says that without actually opening up the plane and looking inside there would have been no way of knowing the mice were there before takeoff.”
Hmmm, WRONG. Checking the carb heat during the run-up (as instructed by the POH) would have sucked the stuff into the carb BEFORE takeoff.
FAA hazardous attitude anecdote: the rules are there for a reason.
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