Dan Thomas

With them both down, some speed is lost. The stall characteristics are also messed up.

I regularly went to the Arlington Fly-in, starting in 1975, soon after I got my PPL. There were no BD5s there because nobody ever got a...

Take it back and tell them to read the manual and get it right. They tensioned the carrythrough cable without retensioning the aileron...

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But the critical time when the gascolator is needed is when the airplane is NOT in gorund attitude. That's when the fuel is flowing from...

I think the key point was "when you have a ton of other aircraft all trying to land"

Part of getting such STCs approved includes a mass of POH revisions. But I have found unrevised POHs in modified airplanes. The OP might...

it was just a good ol' fashioned ribbing. I moved the arrow but forgot about the actual temp

From the Lycoming O-320 Type Certificate Data Sheet: Those engines are tested, run hard, for certification, and if they survive at...

Yeah. What's with that? Oil temp usually redlines at 245°F, but the blue needle here is past redline with the temp at only 190°F.

Some say there is, but I have seen stainless sheet riveted to aluminum, chiefly as firewall sheet to aluminum fuselage. After many...

I have one. It came off my Jodel. That glass cylinder was 1/4" thick but I still didn't trust it. The head was cast zinc, so the total...

Because a roller bearing is "better." Old airplanes, like Cubs and Champs and Luscombes and so on, had brazed-steel airboxes that...

The machine should have an ALT switch, to shut off a rogue alternator by shutting off the regulator without having to shut the master...

Cessna used, for decades, tiny Torrington needle bearings for that shaft in the airbox. Vibration caused the hard steel roller needles...