Author: ami mcfadyean <ami@mcfadyean.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 22:25:30
The seat belts wrap over the seat back and attach near the spar. This does mount to the strongest point in the airframe, but isn't the best place ergonomically, as it can cause spinal compression in
Author: ami mcfadyean <ami@mcfadyean.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 20:48:43
I would have added that anodising should be done at the last possible moment. This reduces the negative effects of the slow hydration that takes place to the oxide film and reduces the almost certai
Author: ami mcfadyean <ami@mcfadyean.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 00:26:18
The glass-sleeved Purolator has a filter area of about 1 3/4 sq in. The larger and similarly styled K&N billet filter (and others like it) has an area of about 4 in sq. The Flo-Ezy filter (advertised
Author: ami mcfadyean <ami@mcfadyean.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 20:47:27
Synthetic oils do not scavenge lead deposits (as Mobil are finding to their very great cost in the States as the law suites for innumerable damaged Lycomings rumbles on). Duncan McFadyean
Author: ami mcfadyean <ami@mcfadyean.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 21:30:15
The results that I`d achieved in automotive-use were more positive than that. Having treated after break-in, the vehicle (with some other mods.) returned a nearly 50% improvement on the manufactures
Author: ami mcfadyean <ami@mcfadyean.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 21:00:13
To add to the mystery, the fineness of the dust that collects by electrostatic precipitation on the inside of the tank (and everywhere else on the aircraft!) has always seemed to me to be alot finer
Author: ami mcfadyean <ami@mcfadyean.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 23:22:27
I used polythene sheet as a shim. It was of "medium" thickness; about 0.0025". On completion of the whole set-up the freedom of movement was first-rate and with no axial play. Until that is the beari
Author: ami mcfadyean <ami@mcfadyean.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:59:14
I wouldn`t know. Unless the graphite is in an oil/grease carrier. The solvent carriers in many spray lubs. REALLY make the Tufnol swell. But it does seem to go back down with time as the solvent slow
Author: ami mcfadyean <ami@mcfadyean.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 20:40:45
Its worth a call to the CAA as well because you may find that they are willing to come out with a noise meter and measure levels (for certain specified manoeuvres over the airfield and which would th
Author: ami mcfadyean <ami@mcfadyean.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 20:12:42
Lowering the tyre pressures is fine if it is only the wings that are to be transported on the trailer. But with the fuselage as well, the tyres will overheat (and its probably also non-legal). Hi! No
Author: ami mcfadyean <ami@mcfadyean.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 21:44:58
I seem to remember an FAA alert (published in the back of Gasil in the UK c.1991) that warned against glass-based insulation in contact with stainless steel at temperatures above 500C; exhaust laggin
Author: ami mcfadyean <ami@mcfadyean.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 20:29:00
The deflection of the fuselage sides under the loads passed into them by the forward wing lift pins is 0.21 degrees per `g`. Don`t know how much the wings flex though. Duncan McFadyean
Author: ami mcfadyean <ami@mcfadyean.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 20:36:36
Have you tried to get the whole aircraft onto a monowheel trailer without the wings touching or being perilously close to the fairings? Duncan McFadyean