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  1. C5Engineer added a post in a topic Yahoo Group   

    Sounds like a challenge! I challenge each and every one of you to get on the Yahoo site and do a search a for a topic that helped you out along the way. Copy and paste the relevant information into a thread on here and I will sort through it and post it where it needs to go. I've already moved most of the Files into our files section but I can't do this alone guys. The info is out there it just needs people to take the time to find it and post it. Hell just tell me what info you think would be useful and I will put in my own time to extract it.
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  2. C5Engineer added a post in a topic 21/4 airspeed   

    If you buy one get the Zero to 100mph gauge. I can't tell you now many Avids and Kitfoxs I've seen with 180mph ASI in them. The first tick mark on your indicator in a 100mph airplane should not be 40! That's like having a speedo that goes to 200 in a Pinto. Makes no sense.
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  3. akflyer added a post in a topic Yahoo Group   

    Chris,
     
    Just so ya know, it was not meant to be a hack on the guys trying to run it or the mods, its just the site itself and yahoo's new found interest in making everything more difficult to use.  I know I have had hell the last few weeks and for most of this year dealing with hackers and server issues so I know how quickly you can go from a hero to a zero when the site is down, running slow, or in someway not meeting someones expectations.  I know you have contributed alot of awesome ideas and tech info to this site and it is appreciated!  But at the end of the day, the majority sees that a forum based site is alot easier to search and navigate than the old YH groups or email list.
     
    I am working on an email option for this site so that, if you wanted, you can get a daily digest of the site activity.  A few of the guys that mod the forum software have been working on it and hope to have it up and running soon.
     

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  4. Guest added a post in a topic Yahoo Group   

    I am a moderator on the Avid Yahoo group. I used to like it a lot and spent a great deal of time learning and contributing. The format was simple and a ton of good people and information are there. Recently they changed the format and now when I post, they don't show up half the time. It's also tons slower and a buttload of advertising clogs the whole thing up. I love the people there, but the site sucks now. I wish there were a way to move all the files, knowledge and history away from there.
     
    But I am not the creator of the site, just a moderator. One of several moderators the original creator of the site asked to do the job when he sold his plane. it would be tragic to lose all the info there, because while difficult, you can search by topic and find every conversation that was ever had and there is a lot of accumulated information and knowledge there.
     
    But I too think the yahoo site is going the way of the Dodo if yahoo doesn't do something to clean it up and speed it up.
     
    Chris
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  5. Chewie added a post in a topic 21/4 airspeed   

    Western Antique Aero and Auto Museum, yeah baby!
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  6. akflyerbob added a post in a topic Yahoo Group   

    Yhaaa, but the grumpyolmen part...really
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  7. akflyerbob added a post in a topic 21/4 airspeed   

    DA..that was 3 1/8, asw wants 2 /14
    I have a whole panel of 2 1/4 I'm sure i am not going to use
    but I'll be in San Diego till the 31 ft.
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  8. akflyer added a post in a topic Yahoo Group   

    I tried like hell to get Steve W. to join up over here years ago.  Seems some people don't like the site because it is not all strictly business and you all are free to talk about damn near anything you want to here as well as the Avid's or Kitfox's   Steve is one of the more knowledgeable guys in respect to those who know the idiosyncrasies of the various models etc.  John would be an awesome resource to tap into as well.
     

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  9. akflyer added a post in a topic The silent giant begins to stir...   

    Speaks volumes for the basic principles and thought process for the imposter in chief.
     

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  10. akflyer added a post in a topic 21/4 airspeed   

    ahhhh, I remember now grasshopper.. Well at least I know I am not totally losing my mind hahahaha I knew I had one at one point
     

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  11. akflyerbob added a post in a topic 21/4 airspeed   

    Leni, you did have an asi, you gave it to me for the mod 3
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  12. Trackwelder added a post in a topic The silent giant begins to stir...   

    I always thought it was a bad idea to spend all that money training people to be soldiers and then basically firing them by downsizing the armed forces, Lets see Weapons training that a police force never gets, people used to pulling triggers and people who have sworn an oath to protect the country against all threats foreign or domestic, bad idea to piss them off.
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  13. Trackwelder added a post in a topic Yahoo Group   

    Some body need to move all of the good information that Steve Winters put on the Yahoo group over here, When I first got my Avid I read that group from beginning to end and he had all of the tubing diameters and thicknesses plus a lot of the lengths for building the different models. I used them when I rebuilt my fuselageand took everything up to MarkIV specs, I know the wings weren't the only thing involved in the weight increase, so I changed spar carry throughs and strut carry throughs the only thing I didn't change was the rudder, although I have always thought that I could make the change later if I need it.
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  14. Trackwelder added a post in a topic Bought an Avid Catalina kit.   

    I hope PT goes well, I just got cleared to do PT from my last back surgery, I still work on my planes on good days I am welding on bad days I do math and drawings, I have to keep busy or I go nuts.
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  15. Trackwelder added a post in a topic Size matters.   

    I think I already told you this on another forum, but the Just Aircraft uses 2 1/2 x .063 tubes for spars and has an insert that brings them up to a claimed wait of over 1500lbs, everybody stops at 1320 anymore because of Light Sport regulations, the wings landing gear and tailfeathers are interchangeable, but I would use the newest version I could come up with. I priced out the spar inserts from Just Aircraft a few yeas ago and they would sell them separately at that time for $79 expect them to have gone up a little. If you hunt for the sandbag test that avid did they tested to maximum of over 6 G's if I remember right without the spar inserts and the wing returned to normal, that gives you extra safety margin for weight unless you are flying acro, the size of the plane is actually roomier than I think you were led to believe, I think if you can fit in a C150 you should be able to fit in an Avid or Kitfox, Cessna was good at taking a good design and making it weigh more and haul less
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  16. egp8111 added a post in a topic 21/4 airspeed   

    Thanks everyone for checking.  WAAAM ? 
     
    EG
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  17. Chewie added a post in a topic Yahoo Group   

    Yeah, that thread is why I want him over here.  That guy inspires me.
     
    edit: ...and thanks for posting all that history!
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  18. C5Engineer added a post in a topic Yahoo Group   

    I let him know we were here. Here is a link to a thread I've been updating with the history of the Avid story he's been posting on the Yahoo group.
     
    http://www.avidfoxflyers.com/index.php?/topic/2005-history-of-the-avid/
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  19. SkyPirate added a post in a topic To the Apple fanboys: how you liking your iOS 7 upgrade?   

    I got notice of #3 upgrade to the 7, havent pulled the trigger on it yet
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  20. Chewie added a post in a topic Yahoo Group   

    I just did a search for John Larsen on this forum, nothing.  Someone please get him over here!
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  21. fokkerc1 added a post in a topic Bought an Avid Catalina kit.   

    I got the latest new knee on Aug. 20. I am now doing the P.T. thing. I am allowed to do stuff at the end of January. To answer the preceding question, I will measure the top thickness, when I can get to the barn. My manual is an earlier one.
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  22. Chewie added a post in a topic 21/4 airspeed   

    I bet WAAAM has buckets of them.  I'll check.
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  23. akflyer added a post in a topic 21/4 airspeed   

    Sorry mr.. I thought I had another one. I have another altimeter and a couple vsi but no more asi.. I coulda sworn I had one..
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  24. egp8111 added a post in a topic 21/4 airspeed   

    thanks !
     
    EG
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  25. EDMO added a post in a topic AK 670 Powered Kitfox on Barnstormers   

    I had tried to pull up that post on the Rotary Forum some time ago, but was looking for the mythical diesel auto engine conversion - I get lost between the garage and the house, and they are connected!
    EDMO
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