Apr. 09, 2023
In the freezing temperatures early in the morning at the High Sierra Flyin Neil let me use his 1500 watt space heater hooked up to his generator to pre-heat N7ZK prior to departing the Deadcow Lake Bed. Never having thought about...
Jan. 15, 2023
After cranking down on the worm gear hose clamps every time I have the cowl off to stop drips from coming out of the oil return lines I decided there must be a better method. Putting an 8mm socket on...
Jan. 15, 2023
With the struts that hold the gull-wing doors open beginning to loose their holding power I decided to upgrade from the Vans supplied 500N to these 600N struts. I am told these have a slow open so at the end...
Oct. 26, 2021
On a moonless night coming back to Florida we landed in Georgia for a fuel stop at a rather dark airport just south of Atlanta. As we touched the wheels I saw a deer out of the corner of my...
Aug. 06, 2021
These upgraded gear legs from Sky Designs are really nice. They replace the (2) steel gear legs and fiberglass gear leg fairings that Vans would supply with (2) machined piece of aluminum shaped into an airfoil and shed approximately 15...
Aug. 01, 2021
When we decided it best to tactically retreat from the RV-10 project (41863) it was bitter sweet. In the zero sum time game between building and the kids night time routine/book time the decision was painful and also very obvious. ...
May. 10, 2021
After looking at Sun N Fun and Oshkosh I did not find a cascading transfill setup that I thought made economic sense. After searching the web I found Preece Precision on Ebay who sold a single tank setup with bleed...
Sep. 07, 2020
The differential brakes on the RV-10 are rather important for steering at slow speed. The castering nose wheel will not do much for you nor will the rudder as it is not effective at low speed. This is where the...
