Bandit

Jack,

Checked out your install pictures, they where great. Did you order them from the Kitfox and Avid Flyer Wingtanks website? So you just spray foamed the tanks in with no other attach points to the wing ? Will you be able to remove the alum cover if you have to work on the tanks ? Or did you rivet it to the fiberglass and then just use your inspection holes to check the fittings ? By cutting the top of the tanks off, does it affect the structure of the wing at all ?

Thanks for your help,

Mark

Thanks, I'll check that out.

Leni,

Been thinking and yes it does hurt. If I do go with the drop in tanks why couldn't I secure the tanks into my old tank, then use a thin piece of aluminum to cover the hole top of the tank. That way it would always be accesible.

Looking at the plastic tank install pictures. It looks like the outboard tank drains into the inboard tank by a couple of small gas lines. Wouldn't this take some time to fill the inboard tank ?

What do you guys think of the plastic drop in tanks? I really don't want to add 15 more pounds to my plane.

My tank is leaking again. I have a little gas film coming out of my rear jury strut fitting. Trying to figure out if it is coming from the top rear of the tank or the bottom. Going back over to the airport tomorrow to check it again. I left just enough gas in the tank to cover the bottom 2/3s of the rear of the tank.

Congrads on your first flight. Quite a rush isnt it. Look back in the archives I have a picture of my trim using just a spring.

Leni is right. I would not do any high speed taxi's. Slow taxi is alright on the taxi way. When on the runway go balls to the wall. If you have a choice stay off the pavement and use the grass, much more forgiving. If your full swivel tail wheel lets loose on rollout you will ground loop. Make sure it is working right, been there done that.

I was just wondering how many hours everybody flies a year? I got my Bandit flying in 1996 and have 714 hours on it. How about everybody else?

I have a finger strainer in my tank, then a main line fuel filter after the fuel shutoff, with a filter in each line going to the carbs. Never had any trouble. I have taken my finger strainer out a couple of times with no sign of plugging. Still getting crap out of my tank on preflight drain after 714 hrs. of flying. Never had any visible crap drain out of my header tank on preflight checks. Never have ran a once of booze gas through it either. All premium gas.

Electric Flightstar and  electric powered paraglider.

My wife with a 101 year old pilot. Long food lines.

I had them custom made, then put 21" King Fox tires on them. Matco sells 8" rims with brakes.

Av8r3400,

Stopped by your camp a couple of times, nobody home. Glad we got to meet and visit for a while.  The Avid picnic went good, about 30 people attended.

Leni, you guys have to make it  down next year. Could have a big bash at our camp by the farm. Do some Avid talk. Maybe tip a few to.

I have 8" rims with tundra tires on my Bandit.

Same as mine, except mine are 90 degree's. Came with the kit.

If we get our normal spot, you go through the yard then straight west out to the west side of the hayfeild. We will have a coleman popup with a blue 91 chevy short box pickup with Mn. plates.

Did get my plane flying again tonight. One worry though. Put a couple of quarts of gas in the wing to rinse it out. After that I drained it to see how much stuff came out of the tank. Not to many chunks. Turned the wing upside down to put the lift struts on and I had gas coming out of the jury strut fitting.

Took it over to the airport and put it back on. Put a few gallons in it and rocked, lifted and shook the wings, no leaks. Put more gas in no leaks. Even folded the wings still nothing. Then put a total of 12 gallons in. Proped the tail up to over flight level plus rocked them and lifted them again. Still no leaks. Took the inspectin cover of by the middle of the tank and reached in and felt all along the tank with still no leaks. Decided to fly. Everything went good. After I landed I rechecked it all again. I am hoping that the gas came from the tank filler neck when we tipped it upside down in the shop to put the lift struts on. I did punch two pin holes in the fabric behind the tank to see if anything will seep out in the future instead of filling the back of the wing bays with gas. After I get back from Oshkosh I will check it again.

The finger striner is a fine mess about as big aruond as a pencil that is connected to the 90 degree outlet. No way any big chunks can get through that.

I will run some gas through mine also. I have a three inch finger strainer on my tank outlet, with a filter in my main line, then a small filter in each line going to the carbs.

I cut the fabric from the root out to the outboard rib of the tank. Then six inches from the back of the tank around the trailing edge to six inches from the back of the tank on the bottom side.

We will be at the Avid lunch. We are camping on the private land across from the barn. We will be their Saturday.

Any of you guys going to Oshkosh ?

Finished my wing tonight. Going to put it back on Thursday. Sure hope it doesn't leak!

That is the same thing I found with my VG's.