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- Sun Apr 24, 2005 5:42 pm
- Forum: The Hangar
- Topic: Nosedraggers... what are you thinking?
- Replies: 132
- Views: 142945
I learned to fly during the middle 1950s in Cessna 120s and 140s. I've owned a 120 since 1970, and a RV-6 for just over a year. I think the Cessna is more demanding in a crosswind than the RV-6. The RV-6 will bite you on take off if you're not ready for it. Once you know what it is going to do, no p...
- Wed Apr 20, 2005 10:46 pm
- Forum: O-320 / O-360 / O-540
- Topic: Air oil separators
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10340
[[color=violet]quote="Joe Blank"]I use the Slime Fighter on my RV-6 and it works great. Just exit the breather tube over one of the exhaust stacks and it does a great job of eliminating an oily belly. I also NEVER fill my engine (AeroSport IO-320-D1A) over 6 quarts, as it self levels at about that p...
- Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:32 am
- Forum: Propellers
- Topic: Catto Prop
- Replies: 10
- Views: 31992
You can give Craig Catto the static RPM you want and the engine information for your plane along with the performance parameters you expect to achieve, and he can build the propeller to suit your needs. I have a RV-6 powered by a 160hp 0-320. I had Catto build the propeller assuming I would be repla...
- Mon Mar 14, 2005 9:29 pm
- Forum: The Hangar
- Topic: 1939 Porterfield
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13926
- Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:06 am
- Forum: The Hangar
- Topic: 1939 Porterfield
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13926
I helped my flight instructor retrieve a Porterfield from a grass strip about 60 miles from home in early 1958. It had been years since it had flown. We went down there in the Cessna 120 I had soloed in, ferry permit in hand and got it running and flew it home. As I remember, it was only a little sl...
- Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:17 pm
- Forum: The Hangar
- Topic: Nosedraggers... what are you thinking?
- Replies: 132
- Views: 142945
- Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:53 am
- Forum: The Hangar
- Topic: Nosedraggers... what are you thinking?
- Replies: 132
- Views: 142945
- Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:01 am
- Forum: The Hangar
- Topic: Nosedraggers... what are you thinking?
- Replies: 132
- Views: 142945
- Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:02 am
- Forum: Propellers
- Topic: Catto Prop
- Replies: 10
- Views: 31992
There is a photo of my RV-6 with a new Catto Propeller on www.rvaero.com. The pic is in the member galleries.
- Sat Feb 19, 2005 1:47 am
- Forum: Workshop & Tools
- Topic: Water in the air line...!?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 17544
I'm a retired industrial maintenance technician. I was recently helping a friend trouble shoot a machine that uses several pneumatic solenoid valves. It turned out the solenoid valves had failed due to water in the air system. He didn't want to use my poor mans air drier, but we did locate a small c...
- Sat Feb 12, 2005 12:43 pm
- Forum: Workshop & Tools
- Topic: Water in the air line...!?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 17544
I tried using the coil between the air tank and the water trap. It was winter and the air was wet. The water trap was filling up so fast I had to watch it all the time. Installing the coil between the compressor and the tank did the trick. It enabled me to use the drain cock in the tank to remove th...
- Sat Feb 12, 2005 12:35 am
- Forum: Workshop & Tools
- Topic: Water in the air line...!?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 17544
The only way to take the water out of your compressed air is to refrigerate it to below it's dew point. I made a poor mans air drier by introducing a coil of 1/2" copper tubing between the compressor and the air tank. I put the coil outside and ran a lawn sprinkler on it, then cracked the drain for ...
- Fri Feb 11, 2005 7:35 pm
- Forum: Help Me Decide!
- Topic: RV-7 vs. Legacy FG
- Replies: 21
- Views: 46125
Oh, one thing I left out of my first post, He has over $120,000 more in his Legacy than we do in our RV-6, and doesn't have a paint job on it yet. He has a steam guage instrument panel with lots of bells and whistles. It's going to be a very nice airplane when he's finished, but for the flying we do...
- Fri Feb 11, 2005 3:37 pm
- Forum: Help Me Decide!
- Topic: RV-7 vs. Legacy FG
- Replies: 21
- Views: 46125
I have a friend in the hangar next door who is a retired airline pilot. He just got his Legacy flying a few weeks ago. His is retractable. His cruise speed is about 85 kts faster than our RV-6. His fuel burn is almost twice what mine is. He crosses the numbers at 80 kts or so. It takes him more room...
- Tue Feb 01, 2005 2:08 pm
- Forum: The Hangar
- Topic: Nosedraggers... what are you thinking?
- Replies: 132
- Views: 142945
I've been flying for a lot of years. During my flying activities before I owned my own airplanes, I flew nosewheel airplanes over a period of years because that's what was available to me. I always thought I was doing a pretty good job flying. Then I got back into a tailwheel airplane and was shocke...
- Sun Jan 30, 2005 8:53 pm
- Forum: The Hangar
- Topic: Look at all those shavings!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6405
- Sun Jan 30, 2005 6:16 pm
- Forum: The Hangar
- Topic: Nosedraggers... what are you thinking?
- Replies: 132
- Views: 142945
I've been flying tailwheel airplanes for 48 years and have never groundlooped. (knock on wood) I've ridden through one when another pilot was flying. That one was due to an A&P screwing up and putting the wrong brake fluid in during annual inspection. When we landed one brake was locked tight! He li...
- Sat Jan 29, 2005 9:23 pm
- Forum: Propellers
- Topic: Sterba wood prop
- Replies: 8
- Views: 22219
- Sat Jan 29, 2005 2:34 pm
- Forum: Primers & Paint
- Topic: Source for primer
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5500
- Sun Jan 23, 2005 1:40 am
- Forum: Help Me Decide!
- Topic: Elevator Trim (Manual vs Electric)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 26893