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Ours get calibrated on a yearly basis, unless it is dropped. Then it gets tagged and sent off immediately to the cal lab.

Not possible for a single one to cover the entire range you will need. You will find that you need from under 10 pound/inches to nearly 200 pound/feet if you work on much stuff.

Skip: Be sure you are getting material from either a US or European mill. There's been lots of people that have had problems with thin wall 4130 from the far east or unknown mills.

A stick is going to be 20 to 24 feet in length. Best bet is simply order it and make a weekend run to Aircraft Spruce East in Peachtree, Ga and pick it up. For UPS, it would have to be cut into sections under 8 feet in length.

At some point there was an antenna upgrade. Current antenna for it is a SRA-20A, and about 25$ at several places. You could also convert to almost any aircraft band antenna if you are not using it as a portable.

Go up 1 length and add a .016" washer, or keep the current length and drop the washer thickness by .016". A third option is to change to a low profile castle nut. There are a few cases where engineering says exceed the maximum design torque to obtain the ability to insert a cotter pin, but...

Graphite based lubricants have a problem in unconditioned air. They will absorb slight amounts of water, tend to clump and will hold any dirt that gets to them. Additionally, under the right conditions and against the right materials, graphite acts as an abrasive. On the F-16, the only thing...

Need to run thru the throttle control system as well nad make sure it's rigged correctly.

For some reason, almost every Citation 1 photo I could find, had the fuselage in a cream or white, with the exception of these two: https://www.airliners.net/photo/KLM-Luchtvaartschool/Cessna-500-Citation/192331/L...

FirstNet went down, then in a cascade, sections of ATT, Verizon and T-Mobile have gone down too.

Interesting in that the NTSB found water in both tanks....Wonder if the fuel truck got sampled, as a missing gasket on one fuel cap would not necessarily account for water in another tank.

We're about 3/4 of a mile from a pair of tracks and a mile from a group of 3 crossings. It's a fairly busy set of tracks, as it's one of the main corridors from Fort Worth going north. Even with the air conditioning going, any wind out of the eastern direction and you can hear the trains going...

Per AC 150/5395-1A, the slope should be between 6:1 and 10:1. Anything under the 6 is too steep and over the 10 is too flat driving the length and expense way up.

Friend was ferrying a Fiesler down to Harlingen for storage. Fort Worth to Harlingen took him 14 hours and 4 fuel stops.

MIght actually watch the video. Test flying was done, with no apparent squawks before flying the a/c home the next day. As to sitting, it had only been there for a little under two years.