Early RV arrivals will set parking area. Chapter 403 Pancake breakfast 8.00am to 1100am. Mountain Flying seminar at 1200 pm. Type in CXP Carson City Airport Nev.for airport info Runway 27-09 unicom 123.00 and low gas prices.

Carson City CXP is having a RV mountain flying seminar, Fly-in and breakfast on May 17 / 18 2014 Mike Moore is a glider and mountain flying instructor who has taught in the Rockies Sierras and the Cascades Don't miss it.

back seat throttle and mixture levers who makes them and how do you hook them up

I am changing out my plastic brake lines from the foot peddle brake cyl to the brake wheel calipers. Bonaco Pegasus makes RV4 brake lines #3 with #4 AN fittings. Anyone have any dealings with Bonaco. or should I just make up 1/4 inch aluminum brake lines

Some how i pushed the wrong button and non of the pictures showed up.

I fly out of Carson City Nev. I put a go pro under my left wing. The Sierra Mountains in the fall have an array of fall colors from Sept through November. I start out over Mt Rose and follow the changing colors along he middle of the mountains all the way down to and over Mt Whitney. Come the first ...

To normalize steel parts after welding. turn all the lights off in the shop and get the shop a little dark. slowly play an OXY/ACY neutral flame over the part. Look for the first sign of a dull red color This is the normalizing range of steel, 1000 to1100 degrees, 8) allow to cool at room temperatur...

I earned my keep yesterday. I was holding short for runway 9. I heard a twin call out base for landing runway9. As he was flying final, he looked odd, strange, not right. As he crossed the fence I could see that his gear was not down. I called out . Twin.-Gear Down! Gear Down! Gear Down! he said. Th...

Yes! An RV4 is or can be lightened up if you just eliminate all the hip and gatta have goodies. But then you would have to look out the canapy and watch this country slip by at 165 knots at 7.5per hour or 23 mpg with a WAC chart on your lap. Yaw String

I have written a pamphlet on how to build a High Performance RV4. my RV4 N112TT weighed 915 lbs with a stock O360 with a top speed of 217mph. 2450 rpm at 8000 190 mph and 7.5 gph
It sells for $6.00 which covers little over cost of mailing.

Rear seat back location/ drawing Ser #32. The rear seat back assy- Detail "B"rear seat back attach, full scale dwg. #F433 location can be moved aft, or back about 3.5 inches to rest flush and parallel on the baggage compartment bulkhead #407. The upper fiberglass part #F433C can be cut and fitted fl...

To normalize Aluminum sheet or extrusion to an SO state (soft pliable, no memory condtion) for ease of forming. Take an OXY/ACY torch and create a carborizing flame that has black smoke emitting from the tip of the torch. play this smoky soot very lightly over the aluminum part you want to normalize...

When drilling out a pop rivet, blind rivet, or cherry max, take an automatic center punch or prick punch and drive the center stem down past the head of the rivet about 1/16 inch. Take a drill the exact size of the rivet shank and drill the head down to the stem. Break the head of the rivet off with...

To inserting a screw or bolt in a blind hole so it wil not cross thread or bind up. First insert the scew or bolt and turn it backwards or counter clockwise, untill you hear it click or feel it click. Then turn it clock wise finger tight, then use a wrench or screw driver to set it the rest of the w...

Fixed Pitch Prop Formula for miles per hour Air Speed propeller pitch in inches== 84 X 2700 RPM X 60 minutes 12 inches X feet per mile example --- full throtle -2700 84 pitch x 2700 RPM X 60 = 13608000 12 inches X feet per mile 5280 = 63360 MPH= to 13608000 divided by 63360 = 214.77272 MPH What ever...

# 4 brake fluid plastic tubing can be flaired to a perfect 37deg. flair with a lighter or match to match an aluminum AN822-4D elbow tube/pipe. I changed all of the brass ferule fittings on my brake system to all aluminum AN818-4D fluid fittings. To date I have better than 1300 hours on my brake syst...

To remove a striped out phillips screw head. take # 37 drill and drill the center of the screw about 1/16''deep then with new phillips screw bit, back out the defective screw.

When painting the inside of long slender tubing, use the primer of your choice and an air hose. It will take two people to do this. One person sprays the paint into the tubeing and the other person shoots it with compressed air. You can look down the inside of the tubing and see it has covered the w...

An inexpensive drill stop can be made out of RC model plastic fuel line. The drill size 3/32 #40 1/8 #30 5/32 #20 can be cut to or adjusted to any depth size. The total cost around fifty cents A no mar finish each time.
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nice fit. good work.