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Hangar Flying / Re: Ten Things I Like About SARL Racing
« on: November 23, 2011, 12:13:34 AM »
You know we have racing out in the desert too - right. Lone Pine, Kanab, maybe others this year...
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For Sale/Wanted / Re: Exhaust for a 0-235 Engine
« on: September 12, 2011, 10:51:12 PM »
The Swiss EZ guys had to install mufflers - with pipe exiting out the top, pretty ungainly - if you want to quiet the plane a little, get a 3 blade Catto.
Beagle
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Hangar Flying / Re: Oshkosh 2011, Fuel Samples
« on: September 12, 2011, 10:32:37 PM »
There are about 10 types of caps - sorry it doesn't apply to all of them. I had a thermos type fuel cap on a Long EZ. I often had water in the tank too - not from the cap seal, or the primary cap seal, but because I didn't know there was a second seal under the nut that helps adjust the tension of the cap lever. I mistakenly put a washer under the nut on the central bolt of the fuel cap - the washer had edge hole so I could rig a chain to keep the cap from going through the prop. It later dawned on me that the finger/thumb hole in the cap actually collects water and funnels it to the center bolt and if you destroy that center bolt's seal, it is worse than having a bad seal seal around the cap. I solved the problem by simply drilling a small hole through the bolt shaft beyond the center seal of the fuel cap bolt, below the tension nut. Having a fuel cap secured with a chain is vital on Varieze, probably vital on Long EZ... rather than drill through the tank ring for the other end of the chain, I found a simple pcv pipe elbow can tether the other end - if the chain is attached to the elbow's bend. Had the cap dancing around on my strake descending into Guadalajara on that chain - full test of theory.
Beagle
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Hangar Flying / Re: Long EZ Crash
« on: September 12, 2011, 08:23:32 PM »
His friend from El Paso, who collected up the pieces thinks Don suffered an incapacitation that led to the forced landing...
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Hangar Flying / Re: in flight ez pictures
« on: September 12, 2011, 08:22:19 PM »
Very pretty - when you going to put pants on that lovely plane?
Beagle
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Hangar Flying / Re: Thoughts on Operating Weight
« on: June 20, 2011, 02:09:37 PM »
Interesting weight topic..
Oddly enough, or perhaps because of wing loading, the Varieze seems to take much more notice of weight than the Long EZ, or my Berkut. However, I took my little boy, 320 lbs, to Catalina last week and bounced it on because of the extra weight, we fell the last 2 feet. He's an aero engineer and said, on final, 'gear down, and add power for my extra weight."... I also thought - nobody lands hot at Catalina - my mistake....
I used to win landing contests at the R.A.C.E. events by pounding it on - had the gear start slopping fore and aft (inches at the axle end) after a few years of harder than normal landings; it was gear that Mike Melvill and Dick Rutan worried about when 1000 lbs over gross on their southern ocean flights; only had one really heavy landing though...
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Oddly enough, or perhaps because of wing loading, the Varieze seems to take much more notice of weight than the Long EZ, or my Berkut. However, I took my little boy, 320 lbs, to Catalina last week and bounced it on because of the extra weight, we fell the last 2 feet. He's an aero engineer and said, on final, 'gear down, and add power for my extra weight."... I also thought - nobody lands hot at Catalina - my mistake....
I used to win landing contests at the R.A.C.E. events by pounding it on - had the gear start slopping fore and aft (inches at the axle end) after a few years of harder than normal landings; it was gear that Mike Melvill and Dick Rutan worried about when 1000 lbs over gross on their southern ocean flights; only had one really heavy landing though...
Beagle
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For Sale/Wanted / Re: Long-EZ section 2 plans and templates required
« on: May 03, 2011, 03:13:31 PM »
I think I can help you with all that stuff - I don't answer this website often enough to be efficient so use my e-mail address.
RAF closed its doors about 5 years ago and passed on all the supplemental plans so we can keep helping out the builders. I hold and stock most of the stuff.
The Ronneberg nose, perhaps the most famous long nose, might have been developed by Eric Cobb - I have plans for that too - primitive with templates showing how to do it.
Beagle, aka David Orr
canardfinder@att.net
RAF closed its doors about 5 years ago and passed on all the supplemental plans so we can keep helping out the builders. I hold and stock most of the stuff.
The Ronneberg nose, perhaps the most famous long nose, might have been developed by Eric Cobb - I have plans for that too - primitive with templates showing how to do it.
Beagle, aka David Orr
canardfinder@att.net
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Hangar Flying / Re: Ignition Key Switch for One Mag + One KSavier EI
« on: March 01, 2011, 01:41:44 AM »
I'm afraid the best move will be to separate the functions of mag and electronic ignition. My only caution is to avoid using cheap switches for either. My panel got very wet in a downpour and I eventually lost both systems - it got very quiet in the airplane.
David Orr
David Orr
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For Sale/Wanted / Re: Catto Three Blade Pusher For Sale
« on: November 20, 2010, 04:45:35 PM »
What are the numbers on the Prop? 66x?
Beagle
Beagle
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For Sale/Wanted / Re: Wanted three blade Velocity prop
« on: October 25, 2010, 10:40:04 PM »
Greetings - would you please use canardfinder@att.net - I'm here so seldom.
The prop did have an RPM range limited in my Airframe or Engine log - do you want me to look it up?
Beagle, aka David Orr canardfinder@att.net
The prop did have an RPM range limited in my Airframe or Engine log - do you want me to look it up?
Beagle, aka David Orr canardfinder@att.net
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For Sale/Wanted / Re: Plans for Varieze
« on: October 25, 2010, 08:00:25 PM »
I can usually find plans for canards with a little work - get in touch if you need them.
Beagle, aka David Orr
canardfinder@att.net
Beagle, aka David Orr
canardfinder@att.net
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For Sale/Wanted / Re: Wanted - Hertzler, Lightspeed, Catto for O-320
« on: June 15, 2010, 11:15:46 PM »
I keep track of props for sale, get in touch if you want my help.
I've got one on order from Hertzler for the IO-360 on my plane right now, backup to my Catto on it now.
Beagle
I've got one on order from Hertzler for the IO-360 on my plane right now, backup to my Catto on it now.
Beagle
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Hangar Flying / Re: 0-200 with ellison tb
« on: April 11, 2010, 03:16:01 PM »
Never had an Ellison - was there when people discussed need for carb heat, however.
The rumor, early on, was that Ellison gave about 1 gph better performance for same speed...but in 3000 canard hrs I've never bothered, so figure I lost at least 3000 gallons in that time. Klaus is talking electronic fuel injection next, I'd wait.
Beagle
The rumor, early on, was that Ellison gave about 1 gph better performance for same speed...but in 3000 canard hrs I've never bothered, so figure I lost at least 3000 gallons in that time. Klaus is talking electronic fuel injection next, I'd wait.
Beagle
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Hangar Flying / Re: Cold Weather Flying
« on: April 11, 2010, 03:01:02 PM »
Joe,
I've not lived in the NW in winter since flying canards. But the locals up there said you head West to the coast first to gain altitude and get over the weather to avoid a climb through icing - or perhaps you didn't fly in any weather at all? Have you heard that before?
Beagle
I've not lived in the NW in winter since flying canards. But the locals up there said you head West to the coast first to gain altitude and get over the weather to avoid a climb through icing - or perhaps you didn't fly in any weather at all? Have you heard that before?
Beagle
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Hangar Flying / Re: Canards West
« on: April 11, 2010, 02:30:17 PM »
How are the numbers coming?
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