Sunday, April 23, 2006

Using GPS to Measure Performance Enhancements

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I have been scanning the internet looking for ways to properly evaluate some flight data I've gathered. I think I found the solution an...
Tuesday, January 31, 2006

My home made NASA autopilot

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This is a little note about keeping your building in perspective towards the object of actually getting in the air. Way back in '82 when...
Thursday, December 15, 2005

More TCM O-200 improvements

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I wish I took more photos of this engine. Here, you can see their extension for the oil sump. Interesting, eh? Also, you want to look cl...
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O-200 oil presure sender

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Here's a photo of the TCM display O-200 at last year's AirVenture. There are a couple of interesting changes that I was a little ...
Saturday, October 22, 2005

Baffling evolution

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My Q-200 started out with the off-the-shelf baffling. It went through lots of changes which I don’t need to bore you with. I’ll try and keep...
Monday, October 10, 2005

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Fast forward two years. The next significent change came a couple of years later when I modified my cowling inlets to the Sam James' Ai...

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Pretty much finished.  

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Glassed. I did leave out a step in my previous description. I made up a couple of flat pieces of glass to use around the rocker covers. When...

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Snouts and the desired foam are finished and in place. It's getting to be time for glass! 

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I needed to install a couple of "snouts" for the inlet. I used more two-part and foamed them into place. The idea is to have the...

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Carving has started. Notice I left old spark plugs in the engine. The splus will actiually serve to help keep the plenum in place during f...

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After curing for about half an hour, all the cardoard is stripped away. 

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Next, I filled the whole thing with two part foam. Don't ever use the hardware store variety - you'll be sorry. Splurge for the tw...

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I needed to start with a large block of foam to evnelop the engine. I simply made cardboard dams and taped everything off. 

O-200 Plenums and cooling

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There has been a lot of discussion about plenum baffling on the Q-200 Engine group. I thought I'd post a few photos about how I made mi...
Friday, August 12, 2005

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Here's the payoff! My average speed for the 500 sm. mile race was 200.3 mph. Though my time was 3 mph faster last year, we had signifi...
Saturday, July 09, 2005

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Right after the successful test flight. Everything went smooth. I wound up the flight witha low approach down the runway and was looking at...

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Everything buttoned up! Annual completed, and ready to fly! 

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Alright! Moving right along. My some miricle, the plenum actually lines up with the rings! Someone must have made a mistake, things don...
Friday, July 08, 2005

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The master painter, Rob Hoskins, shows off his handiwork. Rob is a bike and car guy, so he pronounced my close to the pavement wheel cleara...