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  1. Russ. added a post in a topic CONTRIBUTIONS TO KEEP SITE GOING   

    $ on its way via PayPal.  Russ.
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  2. tcj added a post in a topic Nanco 21x12x8 sale $31.80   

    They are stock Kitfox wheels.  Douglas 8" atv wheels with lugs welded on to bolt the brake disk to.  You would probably need to have the complete kitfox brake, axel, and hub assembly to use them on your plane.  You have to watch barnstormers like a hawk then act fast when you see complete set pop up.

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  3. lostman added a post in a topic Nanco 21x12x8 sale $31.80   

    I just found this post and link. Now the question is what wheels are you guys running these on and where did you get them?
     
    Joey, I know you told me you were running Douglas 8" but do you know where you got them?
     
    Thanks!
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  4. marshawk added a post in a topic Fat Avid weight and balance   

    Hey Chris , yes it is the kitfox 5 cowl you sent me ,had to do some modifying , toughest part was shaping around the windsheild. I know how you feel looking for a cowl was just about the hardest part of the build, im  really greatful for you sending it but dont feel good about you needing one now.If you end up gong with a kitfox 5 cowl let me know and maybe I could chip in for it
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  5. EDMO added a post in a topic PIPER COLT IN 35 FEET OF WATER - OOG?   

    The pilots delivered some mechanics poor restoration job as they were contracted to do - They just made a poor decision for whatever reason they had to rush the return flight, and paid for that decision - almost with their lives.
    There are probably not too many of us who can look back without thinking of how stupid we were in some of our flights - But hopefully, as we age and gain experience we do not make the mistakes like we made years and hours ago.
    EDMO
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  6. lostman added a post in a topic PIPER COLT IN 35 FEET OF WATER - OOG?   

    Ed,
    Does the airplane look like crap due to the two pilots to delivered it or because of the company that did the restoration? At first I figured they beat the hell out of it, now I'm wondering if it was just a crap resto job.
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  7. lostman added a post in a topic PIPER COLT IN 35 FEET OF WATER - OOG?   

    I wasn't going to say anything before, but now it seems there was a lot more bad judgment involved that I even thought! Stirring up the hornets nest isn't the way to keep tickets, CFI, friends, or airplanes in this case.
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  8. 1avidflyer added a post in a topic Still looking for a Fat Avid Cowl   

    Don't know what his prices are now, but when I got my Jabiru cowl from him through Avid which them must have made something off of, I paid $450 plus shipping.  That was about half or less of what Jabiru wanted.  Jim Chuk
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  9. EDMO added a post in a topic CONTRIBUTIONS TO KEEP SITE GOING   

    Leni, Joey,
         Is there any way to make your last post stay lit up for a while until everyone has a chance to contribute for
    this year?  We are just now into the 2nd week of Jan.
    EdMO
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  10. EDMO added a post in a topic F7A revisited   

    yes Cessnas make you lazy in turns - unless you have a commercial flight instructor giving you the worst ass-chewing you ever got for taking your feet off of the pedals for a while in gusty winds on a cross country flight!  I KNOW! 
    EDMO
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  11. EDMO added a post in a topic Looking to purchase this and have questions.   

    No engine performs in the Lower Midwest or Southern states like they do in the cold air - Pilots here don't have skis because we don't get enough snow usually, and they don't go to the airport if it is below 40F, unless they are trying to finish their commercial training, like I did.
     
    I am seriously hoping that the 4 inch leading edge extension and bigger tailfeathers will do the job that the stretch does.
    I could have done the stretch, but didn't feel like I needed a longer nose-dragger that would take more space to store - and I drag the skid off of the tails enough already!
     
    BTW:  If anyone has not heard of Mike Jacober, or Artic Sparrow,  he used his carb adjustment to set altitude records in thos funny looking triangle wing thingys with a 2-cycle engine on them - (weight shift powered somethings?) and I believe he even went over Denali (Mt. Mc Kinley) 20,000+ feet in one!
    He made them and also had a Rotax repair shop in Birchwood, Alaska.
    Sad part was, that he also died while flying one at low altitude in Alaska.
    EDMO
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  12. EDMO added a post in a topic PIPER COLT IN 35 FEET OF WATER - OOG?   

    Funny part is - They were bringing my friend's Luscombe back and contracting for the insurance company who had just paid out about $25K to restore it after he hit a hole in the air on landing and drove the gear up to the roof!
    BTW: He is mad as hell - this was a first prize winner at Osh - and he is a perfectionist, and said the plane now looks like crap!
    I think he now has photos and ready to raise hell with somebody!
    EDMO
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  13. Av8r3400 added a post in a topic Looking to purchase this and have questions.   

    The fuselage stretch makes all the difference in the world in regard to heavy motors and Avids.
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  14. akflyer added a post in a topic F7A revisited   

    The original design basically gave you twice as much DOWN flaperon as it does UP flapperon... inducing a good bit of adverse yaw.  The new arms give you more up than down and do away with most of the adverse yaw, however, there is still some.  I flew the KF II for 300 hrs before putting them on my avid and I really cant say that it was a life changing mod.  You still have to use your feet and I always lead with rudder going into and out of turns.  The Avids and KF line are still largely rudder dependent planes.  I could fly all day and land without flaperons, but your damn sure not gonna do it without rudder.
     
    I forgot how much more rudder dependent the avids were till I started flying the 180 this fall and I got a wake up on my foot work.. Cessnas make ya lazy
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  15. dynomike added a post in a topic Fat Avid weight and balance   

    I was wondering about the cowl too ,I like how rounded it looks. so what cowling is it?
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  16. akflyer added a post in a topic Looking to purchase this and have questions.   

    Also, I was DEFFINATELY in the camp that the subie was NOT the engine for the Avid airframe.  Light is the way to go... well, after flying a good bit with Randy, using the same damn wing I have, its pretty impressive to me how his "pig" performs.  If you can put a subie in a normal airframe and get the W&B OK by just moving the battery to the tail, I would say go for it.  Randy only has to carry half the fuel I do for any given mission and his plane performs just as well as mine and he kicks my ass in cruise now.
     
    With all this said..... We are flying at lower temps than a lot of you guys do and at lower altitudes and I feel that plays a HUGE roll in the performance we are seeing from our planes up here.  Cold air at sea level makes for a good performing plane, and I would not expect a Subie powered plane at 80 degrees and 7-8000' DA perform remotely close to how Randy's plane flys.  But he made a believer outta me up here or at lower DA's
     

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  17. akflyer added a post in a topic Looking to purchase this and have questions.   

    When Mike died the Arctic Sparrow In Flight was taken over by one of his instructors (Bud Gisham) but when I asked him about them a couple years ago he said he was not making them anymore.  There are a few sets floating around I have seen where people had them for sale, but if you break a cable, or a needle gets worn, your back to square one and putting stock barrels back in your carb.  If anything happens to mine I will be going to the hacman system.
     

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  18. akflyer added a post in a topic PIPER COLT IN 35 FEET OF WATER - OOG?   

    hopefully the plane was insured and the insurance pays for the recovery.. which in turn is passed on to anyone who has insurance, or is trying to get it.
     

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  19. EDMO added a post in a topic PIPER COLT IN 35 FEET OF WATER - OOG?   

    It may have cost them contracts, or even some problems with the Father of American Aviation department - they were CFIs too.
    And who pays for the recovery of that wreck - the taxpayers (NTSB) or them?
    EDMO
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  20. stressedout72 added a post in a topic Still looking for a Fat Avid Cowl   

    I am going to speak with him on the cost of the tooling?? will see what happens, boat builders are not light sport aircraft builders, also i am sure my costs will be far less then his.
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  21. akflyer added a post in a topic Still looking for a Fat Avid Cowl   

    Awesome find!  Thanks for sniffing this guy out and posting it up!  I can think of a ton of glass parts that we can use and hopefully be cheaper to buy than take the time to make!  At least we now have a source to get sticker shock from anyways
     

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  22. akflyer added a post in a topic CONTRIBUTIONS TO KEEP SITE GOING   

    I think I have updated the guys who sent a donation, you don't know how much that is appreciated.  As Ed pointed out this site used to be cheap.. to the tune of around 6 bucks a month, but thanks to hackers, and their back door use of the band width, I had to step up to a dedicated server etc to the tune of around 100 a month, plus pay someone from 50-250 bucks to restore the site and clean it up after every hacker attack (there has been 3 of them in the last year) so needless to say, at times I was just about ready to toss in the towel and just let the site fall to the wayside.  Through your donations, it gives me enough incentive to keep dealing with the punk kids or the stoned worthless middle aged guys that cant get a date who just sit in their parents basement in their underwear getting off on hacking sites... OK, maybe the last one was a bit graphic, but that was edited from the original version prior to me hitting the post button
     
    One last thing, if you do send a donation, please include your user name as it makes it easier for me to figure out who I need to turn green and list as a contributing member!
     
    ok, this is the last thing... we even have some guys who don't own an Avid or a Kitfox hanging out here and making donations.  Way to step up guys, thats awesome!  I will try and get a forum up for you guys to post to.. maybe a catch all "any other type plane" thread that you can post in so we can see your projects, or maybe help out with an issue.  Most of us on here have been around aviation for awhile and have worked on or flown many different planes so perhaps we would have a former type owner who can answer your questions and help out.
     
          < a huge chug to those who help keep the lights on!
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  23. akflyer added a post in a topic PIPER COLT IN 35 FEET OF WATER - OOG?   

    ahhh.. or in my case youth and big brass commercial fisherman balls got me into some weather shit I had no right to live through... it is amazing to me today that I have the ability to say no, I am going to hang here another night versus pushing the weather as I have in the past.. Damnitall, does that mean I am getting old, now that would just piss me right off if I was
     
    At any rate, I am glad to hear they both made it out and are still able to fog up a mirror held under their nose   Too bad it cost a plane to learn that lesson.
     

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  24. akflyer added a post in a topic 582 Thermostat   

    grab some gasket material and make your own.  Napa has tons of various thicknesses.  If I remember right, the gasket is about 1/8" thick overall, so if they have some 1/16" thick material you can make a ring on each side and be good to go.
     

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  25. akflyer added a post in a topic Need help with something on the forum? Ask it here   

    http://www.avidfoxflyers.com/index.php?/forum/10-avid-model-iv/
     
    This is a link to the MK IV specific area.  You can post it in there.  Like Larry said, I / we dont holler at ya for posting to the wrong section around here, but we may horse whip ya a bit      
     

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