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Friday morning was set aside for installing the skin on the inboard end of the right wing, which includes the fuel tank. There were a few prep steps remaining because we simply ran out of time on Thursday afternoon. First, I shortened the fuel pickup line and drilled a new fuel strainer in the end.
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Steve and Rob are slave drivers and, I have to admit, I like it that way. With two of them, a whole airplane in front of us, and only a couple of days of my time to spend at Bede Corp., they have kept me more than busy. Yesterday [...]
I spent the day at Bede Corp, helping construct the wings of my Bede BD-4C. For a complete newbie like me, it was quite the experience and I sure learned a lot. For instance, assembling the wings is pretty straightforward if you have done it before and have all of the jigs, clamps, and tools readily at hand. [...]
The fuel injected IO-360 Lycoming engine in my Piper Arrow has always been difficult to start when it is hot but I finally found a technique that works quickly and reliably.
First, a bit of background on the issue. When an airplane has been flown and then then parked for a few minutes, the engine, [...]
I was curious about how the Bede BD-4 stacks up against the 1968 Piper Arrow, size-wise, so I made a 3-view of the BD-4 from the overview drawings and copied the 3-view from the Arrow’s manual. This post has two large images so click through to my web site. The pictures won’t show up on [...]
If you know me at all, or have read even a bit of my blog, then you know that I fly a Piper Arrow and am pretty darned happy with it. The Arrow is a great travelling machine for Candy and me. It is fast enough to make cross country flights reasonable [...]
If you like things that fly, get thee to Oshkosh, Wisconsin for AirVenture. Here are some of the photos that I took this year. (Click through to the photo album for larger images or if you cannot see the slideshow here.)
When last I wrote about weather, I had cancelled my flight to Oshkosh, Wisconsin because of thunderstorms between home and my destination. I speculated that there was a small chance that the storms would move east, allowing me to fly later in the day. As it turned out, that [...]
People often look at me funny because I either choose to fly or choose to cancel a flight when the opposite course seems right. It happens because pilots look at weather a little bit differently, but that can be hard to explain when I do not have a computer handy. This morning offers a perfect [...]
Robert Scoble got a beautiful photo of Atlantis’ final launch, STS-135
I am very proud of what we have done and sad to reach the end of this era.
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