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looks good, thats an interesting cowl, what is the bump on the top for. what power plant are you running. congrats on the build.

Well, I've only had it for just shy of three years but my dad bought it back in November of 1990. He worked on it off and on for a year and was able to get a couple wing ribs attached and it setting on the gear. He got busy with life and it got put away and sat in a shed for 20 years. After the last 10 years of me trying to pry it out of him finally in August of 2011 we were able to make a deal on it.

In 2 years 9 months and 1393 hrs. shes ready to fly.

Av8r3400 I'm down by Janeville

Travis

Here is another thought that I have used with success. I put a small washer of the right thickness under each circlip that would move the needle half the distance from one groove/notch to the next. Just wondering what your static rpm is @ full throttle? Others mentioned adding pitch and that makes sense also. Jim Chuk

Way to go!  That is persistence.  I'm sure you will have a blast in it.

bs Larry, you can slap the big tires on your plane in a few hours    Get on up here and do some playing

There's a great business opportunity for you, Leni.  --  Bush Tire rentals.  

What about my bling-bling setup??

Very cool pictures, had to look twice at the shot from above Randys plane over the glacier almost looked like he was landed on it

bs Larry, you can slap the big tires on your plane in a few hours    Get on up here and do some playing

Congratulations, Travis!!  Lots of fun to come, now…  !!

Where in southern Wisconsin are you?

congrats! looks great!

Mark

This kit was bought 23 1/2 years ago and is finally ready to take to the sky with the FAA's blessing. Transition training in a Kitfox to satisfy the insurance man in one week and first flights in the Avid to follow.

Travis

There's always lots of excitement about 670s and before that 618 motors. To the guys trying this again and again, I wish good luck.

The story, almost always, ends the same. The super human power and performance is breathtaking, but the constant fiddling and tweaking never stops. Then one day they realize that they have a great performer 50% of the time and a project that needs work the other 50%. I've seen this in my group of flyers, several times now. Not one of those planes is still flying with the big motor, or flying at all any more. They have moved on to 912 motors, different planes or different hobbies all together.

Personally, I think Leni is on the right track with a fuel injected motor to solve a lot of the reliability issues. Maybe he's out on a limb with the idea of an Arctic Cat motor, but that's another conversation.

Okay to finally close the loop on this.

Back in January my initial thoughts of success were not to come true. Engine roughness, between 2000 and 3000 rpm was still there. It was different, but still a problem. Prior to the gearbox I was getting what would be best described as a vibration. After the gearbox it was more of a rough running situation. I don't know which came first, but the roughness was still there.

I had put new plugs in the motor, more out of frustration than anything, so I thought maybe there was a bad one or something. When I pulled the new plugs, I noticed one side was definitely darker than the other. Okay, that's carbs!

Off they came again. I got new boots from JBM, even though my old ones looked fine. I tore into both carbs again, and found... Nothing wrong. This time I reversed sides on the carbs, to put the throttle arms and chokes to the outside for ease of adjustment. This required the reworking of the cables and plumbing. If nothing else, if the dark plugs changed sides too, I would know I have a bad carb, or if they didn't, maybe something internal to the motor.

Well, the roughness is nearly (95% +) gone now. A little more tweaking on the air screws will fix what's left.

The good news is its fixed. The bad news is I don't really know what I fixed to get here.

Beautiful country, guys. Absolutely beautiful.

I'd love to fly up there someday, but as Leni says my plane (and my skill set) aren't equipped for it...

That was just way fun Leni, I'm ready to do it again! 

Man the wind shifted and we are smoked out here in the valley today.  Hope they are able to get it under controll soon to save homes

If you haven't seen my post on the 670 going into a avid go to the tech section and see what I did to install the 670 and tuned pipe.

          Marv

Great pics!

Well it was a chore, but I found a card reader for my damn sony card.  Here are a few more of the fun from yesterday.  I have some waterskipping video but I have to get an editing program on this computer so I can cut it down.  I should have had my camera on rapid shot to get better shots of Randy playingin the water.  Guess we will just have to go out and do it again so we can get the photos right eh Randy :duno:  Lol:

Headed across the Inlet to meet up with Randy

On the McArthur River sand bar

Heading over the bench to Beluga Lake

A cool clear water stream dumping into the glacial silt of Beluga Lake

Nice camping area at the head of Beluga Lake

Randy doing a little hot dog stick whittling.  Thanks for a hot lunch Mr!

The Fat Avid dwarfing my lil Avid on a sweet gravel bar between the Glacier and the lake.  There are some great big plane killing rocks to dodge on the way in here.  Larry, come on up with your lil tires, it will be fun getting helicopter pictures of the wreck being flown out

Randy coming in for a little water play.  Tough to get good shots.

Flying up the river and over the glacier

Shots of the forest fire we have going on... good thing the fn idiots chose to not put it out when it was only 700 acres, now we are around 100,000 acres burned, the winds are picking up and houses are now being burned.... Thankfully we now have 6 water bombers and a few tankers working on it.  As of a few minutes ago the national guard showed up with a few more heli's to try and save a few homes.

As I was tying down at the airport, this Huey was coming in to get some retardant added to the bucket of water.

Dimi3,

That does not only look functional, but it looks cool too!

What Helo are you building?

Thanks,

Ron

Microsoft had update for Windows 8 yesterday - Took all day deleting files and installing new ones - Wiped out all our apps - taking most of today to find a way to reinstall them.

Donno what you can do to avoid this - just be ready for downtime of puter and lots of headaches.

If I didn't have a younger person in the house, I would have just used it for Target Practice!!!!

EDMO

I've got a Kitfox mount for 532 - donno if that would help you?

EDMO

Awesome day of playing. As soon as I find the darn cord for my camera I will post up my pictures. Was cool to fly to places I have not played at for 20 yrs.

I finally upgraded to broad band when our internet provider decided they were going to cut off all dial up service (hey, it was free and I am cheap).  But it is cool to see the videos now.  Keep them coming!

Looks like a great time!  Quite a variety of planes.

Leni and I had a great time out playing on the sand and gravel bars along the McArthur River and Beluga Lake today.  We were planning to land a ridge top strip I had spotted last year but it was still mostly covered with snow so we will have to save that one for another time.  The weather was great and we got to try several good places. Explored some good camping spots, burned some dogs, and did some water skipping.  You can't beat that.  My photos of Leni skipping in a landing leave a lot to be desired; I was having a hard time zooming out fast enough as the plane was aproaching to land and still keep him in focus and in the field of view.  We had a blast; definately want to do that again.

Looks good!  I just got back from flying about an hour ago myself.  Just local flight around close to home, but I was up looking down, and that's a good thing!  Jim Chuk