Recent content by jimz

Well you are right, when the R22 is TTO you need to have it completely rebuilt by a Certified shop. Or stick a Turbine in the aicraft which will completely change the dynamics of the aircraft and airframe and it qualifies as a experimental, but you better have all the paperwork right.

Yes indeed!!!!!

I am actually putting into the Rotorway a certified military T50 bo 12 360 HP engine that the navy used in their anti sub warfare helicopters in the 60's.

I don't see any limitations, se above I answered it!

By getting a experimental certificate on a aircraft, as far as I am concerned there are no limitations, except you cannot get payed or do tours and get payed or rent it out! I was thinking only of the pleasure and the satisfaction of building it, owning it, enjoying it and helping other people...

Example: a Dassault falcon 10 jet is available for under 7k without engines, this cannot be made experimental by sticking engines into it. But you can build one from scratch and have it be exactly the same and since you built it you could make it a experimental! As we say, the laws are not...

One can't take a Bell 206 and make it a experimental heli by sticking new motors into it, because it is a certified aircraft! But you can take the bell 206 and change it over to have a parachute system installed on it and one can get a certificate as a "research aircraft" the problem with that...

There are several examples of owner builder aircraft. I seen a Mosquito that was done. In the Rotorway I have inspected a dozen of them, they are all manufactured by owner builders. The plaquard has to be displayed that it was amateur built by owner.. No AP mechanic has to work on it...

I will give you an example, Rotorway has been manufacturing their mainstay heli for over 50 years. there are a few shortcomings that can be corrected This is the category I am pursuing:owner builder experimental only Operating amateur-built aircraft. Operating an aircraft the major portion...

Absolutely not, I don't want to spend the $ or the nerves to do a supplemental certification. This is just for my own knowledge and enjoyment and to pass down the info to other people, who would also like to do it.

I have flown the R22, it is a very squerly and nervous heli. I also have flown the Rotorway and it is a better handling heli, flies better is almost like a sportscar compared to the R22. I purchase a Rotorway and am repowering it with a 300hp Boeing T50 turbine. will keep updating once it is...

Thanx, I'm on it! I'm originally from Philly.

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I have flown the R22, it is a very squerly and nervous heli. I also have flown the Rotorway and it is a better handling heli, flies better is almost like a sportscar compared to the R22. I purchase a Rotorway and am repowering it with a 300hp Boeing T50 turbine. will keep updating once it is...

My home is at Charlotte Harbor, my farm is in Hardee county