Terry Seaver and I will be there in N135TD Friday morning through Sunday morning. We may park in GA parking, rather than homebuilt parking, to be with a friend in a Cessna 150. Dave DeFord N135TD
Hi Tony, When Jack Acord bought this airplane, he hangared it at Livermore (KLVK), except for the several months each year that he spent in Hawaii. Terry Seaver and I have been flying N135TD (monowhe
Bud, Steven Leisch was building motorglider kit A208 in Morgan Hill, CA several years ago, but I haven't talked with him for quite some time, and I don't know the status of his project. I think we ha
Jordan, This airplane was originally built in Canada and was bought several years ago by Jack Acord, who has kept it at Livermore. It has been hangared at Attitude Aviation. Rich Perkins is the owner
Does anyone have a copy of Bob Harrison's instructions for installation of his repair clamps for the tailplane torque tube? We haven't been able to come up with a file format that both of us can hand
This jacking block is clear at the other end of the spectrum from some of the engineering marvels that have appeared on this thread, requiring just a couple of pieces of scrap wood, a bit of hardware
Richard, We had chronic problems with the heat shield cracking and slipping out of place on our XS mono/912S/oblong muffler. Aluminum seemed like a pretty poor choice for a heat shield (especially in
Does anyone know of someone in North America who does monowheel transition training? My son would like to get checked out in my airplane, and I am not up to the job myself. On the other hand, it woul
Pete, I got a message like this from them a few years ago (after being a customer for many years). When I tried again a short time later, everything worked normally, so it may just be a case of tempo
It seems that we have more of an issue with the timing than the interest. I already have plans that I can't alter to be at McMinnville and environs between August 20 and 23, and I just saw Erich Trom
Sorry, Kevin. I'm committed to flying up there later in the week with my son, who has only those dates off from work, and I really don't want to make two trips in one week. Maybe next time. Dave DeFo
Graham, You are right to be dubious about your results, as they don't reflect the behavior of an undisturbed dipole antenna. Readings like these are most often caused by current flowing on the outsid
It isn't necessary to change the tension between long and short wings, but the difference in retraction/extension force is significant. Particularly at higher speeds, aerodynamic forces on the flaps
Ron, We did switch back and forth between short and long wings, accumulating 90 hours on the long wings, before we heard about the Mod 78 structural problems and quit using them. The long wings would
N135TD is a 2001 XS monowheel with 912S and Airmaster prop, 815 hours total time. Long wings were added in 2008(?), along with other motorglider accessories (Borgelt variometer, second battery, singl