Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Windy Pilot's Report

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Please forgive me for mixing up knots & mph here, it’s just the way I roll. I generally use mph for airspeeds and knots for navigation a...
Saturday, October 24, 2020

Adding a Better Roll Trim

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Roll trim is very good to have in the Q-200. Not only do you need to compensate for the weight of a passenger, but roll trim needs change wi...
Saturday, October 03, 2020

A photo description of an old repair - Canard wrinkle

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Better than 10 years ago I experienced a hard landing with a passenger aboard.  We landed pretty hard and bounced back into the air. I did a...
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Saturday, August 31, 2019

Goodbye Old Friend

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I decided to clean up some stuff in the hangar, which suffers from clutter creep.  Keven Mitchell at SIU's Aviation Technology departmen...
Thursday, December 13, 2018

Q-2, Q-200 Fuel Filler Cap

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This is kind of an old topic, but since some builders are still in process, I thought it would be useful to post a little bit about the fuel...
Friday, August 31, 2018

Couple of Air-to-Air photos

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I have been wanting to get some new pictures with the latest canard and wheel pants.  I also just installed a uAvionix SkyBeacon ADS-B Out. ...
Sunday, June 10, 2018

2018 Bug Muddy Air Race is complete - sort of.

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Check the news stories here. The excitement builds. Rain disappoints. Newspaper article
Thursday, May 17, 2018

The Big Muddy Air Race, coming up June 9, 2018

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Come and flex your wings and join us at this year's Big Muddy, down in beautiful Southern Illinois. Get all the race, and regis...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

What is wrong with the plans-built wheel pants?

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I was helping a couple of new Q-200 owners out and we were talking about wheel pants.  Here is a video we took, back in 2003, doing some tuf...