Recent content by JJohnston

What type is this? The cabin looks huge, and it just keeps getting wider towards the top.

Are the fairleads closed circles, or is there a way to take the cable out through the side? Looking at pictures, it seems as though once you put on the thimble and Nicopress sleeve, it's too big to fit back through the fairlead, so you can't remove it without destroying it. That seems like it...

How about a "pipe flange" arrangement? Like this. This may not be allowed, though, since it's got a 90° cut and fillet weld - but it would have zero play. If you don't have a PTT wire running down the stick, the plates would not have to have holes in them.

Hello, Bearhawkers. New guy here (Jeff), thinking about building a Patrol. Currently I'm living in the greater Albuquerque, NM metro area, but I'm in the process of having a new place built in an airpark (1N1) in the town of Edgewood, east of Albuquerque. I haven't flown since 1999, but I've...