Jerry Davies must be smiling at all of this - he loves Europas because of the repeat business in prop blades... I know one person who is on his 5th or 6th set... BTW, Duncan - what sort of eprformanc
The Magnum (to be certified 2 seat, rotax 914 powered tourer/trainer) uses a small (4" X 4") molded scoop fixed to the back of the coolant rad - molding is there to attach 2" scat - said to work too
Early efforts to stabilize the tub, in Chuck Pops' cradle for Too right - the 250 and 2 days spent building a fuselage jig (mine's steel tube and ply) has paid for itself handsomely - straight fusela
heard 1000 kits now sold (Peter Kember, who had the 1st customer built one flying, is the purchaser...) in rather less time than RV took to sell 1000...
In my mispent youth, thrashing motorcycles around various circuits, we learned the same lesson - robustness was more important than ultimate lightness: a visit to the small brick outhouse was worth m
Stall strips do have one advantage - a physical warning through the stick is far more effective and reliable at getting the pilot's attention than either a horn or a light - which is why all large co
The first flights were conducted off a "runway" - the catapult was used later for low headwind/ 2 seat operations.... technically, what they achieved was the first controlled, powered, fixed wing fli
Of course, the answer is fuel injection - there's a perfect bit of kit out there, made by Weber, as used on Ducati m/cs etc - fully programmable (but you need the bit of kit and software to do it) se
After something like 4 years absence, thought I'd pop my head up and announce. back on the Flyer Europa taildragger build. Despite being sidetracked by restoring an Auster, moving to Somerset, settin
Pete Clarke, I believe, did Vne + 20kt with no issues. Vne tests - your guess is as good as ours - part of the CAA flight test regime, and some blankly refuse. Miles I have a question though .. VNE i
You are correct that a major source of drag is the monowheel. When I flew the prototype in '95 (?), which had separate flap and wheel levers, I set up a stable trimmed cruise at 100 kt, and popped th
There is a scheme out there to cut down the centre console (examined by the factory - perhaps Andy D can enlighten...) - we looked at the loads imposed by the engine on the centre console in relation