100 MPH cruise speed at ~2.2 GPH - That's great mileage!

Mike, thanks for the extra programming to get the site running smoothly again. It looks like AI combined with some programming is really making a difference, and it’s keeping forum operating costs down too. Great work! I used to spend hours analyzing logs and coming up with stopgaps to keep the sit...

The site has been getting bombarded with different bots, crawlers and new AI bots causing it to restart a log. I recently started using www.claude.ai (ChatGPT for programmers) for work and fed it the issues and logs I was seeing. In no time, it gave me pages of recommendations. As I implemented its ...

I saw this posted yesterday on Bob's Facebook page.... With a heavy heart, I would like you all to know that Bob passed away peacefully earlier this morning after his battle with Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia. We are fortunate that he fought long enough to give all of his immediate family a chance...

https://www.homedepot.com/p/VEVOR-5-KW-Diesel-Air-Heater-10-L-Tank-Diesel-Heater-12-Volt-Diesel-Parking-Heater-Muffler-with-LCD-Thermostat-Remote-Control-ZCJRQ12V5KW51JT01V0-0902/332443024 Hmmm, $80 from Home Depot - great price and option to return it easily if it doesn't work as expected. I may ha...

seems to be very useful. I suppose you could pack it in the plane, 20 lb dry and some volume. I wonder if they make a smaller version, like half of this. Looks like this may be the ticket! 10 Lbs https://m.vevor.com/diesel-heater-c_10321/12v-5kw-air-diesel-heater-remote-10l-tank-5000w-for-trucks-bo...

I saw this on Facebook, looks promising!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dDTPSbogpUU

I installed the Reiff sump heaters back in 2010. I have them connected to an outdoor wifi controllable outlet (Meross MSS620, $25 https://a.co/d/7gNhpeZ). Works great - from home I can use the Meross app and turn on for free my sump heater. Even a second outlet I sometimes connect to a trickle charg...

I also has the "Safe"-Air oil drain plug in my RV for about 12 years. I never really liked it, seemed very cheap. I swapped it out for the Fumoto T202N. I liked the fully locking valve - there is no way this could open in flight. The truly paranoid could safety wire the valve lever. https://i.postim...

$2000 = Affordable? The GHA 15 will be available in August 2023 for an expected street price of $1,995. For additional information, visit http://garmin.com/GHA15. I don't quite see the need for a radar altimeter for what we do. This would easily be calculated using a WAAS GPS and the USGS 1 meter Di...

I've thought many times about covering the inside of my cowl with AL tape. 12" wide tape from Amazon for < $50 is what I am thinking:

https://www.amazon.com/BOMEI-PACK-Alumi ... B0CXMP2MDH

I've had many capacitors go bad - more so recently - i think they are build in with a ticking time bomb so HVAC professionals can make easy money. What's unfortunate is you can't buy these through local HVAC warehouses without a license - which is complete crap. Thankfully Amazon delivers next day, ...

A great time was had last week at the Black Otter. I was too busy talking to people to properly document the event. Record crowd as Paul said - 37+ people. 42 if you count the guys at Darwin's table. https://i.postimg.cc/FFjktDHh/PXL-20240723-232849527-MP.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/L6Dq55P7/PXL-202407...

Less than one week away! Who's hungry??

Me being the old salt that I am, I’m in. Pre Otter flight planning at The Chez? Why would we ever mess with trying to change up the perfect day?? What camping spot do you have? We will try to book one adjacent to yours to reduce our needs to walk to the Red Barn for provisioning alcohol.... :) :) :)

Finally the most important post of the year - Black Otter planning for Oshkosh 2024.

Same time? Depart for the Otter after the airshow on Tuesday?

Where is the WW service center located? about 2-3 years ago I drove it out to Austinburg, OH and they serviced it same day. I think I also heard that facility doesn't service the props any longer. I can't believe I missed out on the Big Chair in Austinburg when I was there! https://i.postimg.cc/0jfj...

I am shocked as to how the RV12 consistently is the top airplane in flight. Flight schools would be my guess?

That has always been a concern of mine is the endless liability is presents to the builder.

Is an option to sell it out of the country without dataplates/N-Numbers? Would that work?

Hey all, Sorry for the ~24 hour outage from Friday Morning to Saturday morning - a SQL query was running in the background for some unknown reason eating up all of the CPU on my VPS causing reboots to occur (and fear of possible drive corruption). I shut down the site temporarily as a precaution. Al...