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Returned home yesterday morning after a wonderful week at Oshkosh. The best part was meeting so many folks from the Bearhawk forum and seeing their beautiful airplanes. Loved the Bearhawk walk. Thanks Brooks for organizing it!! Overnighted in Sidney, Nebraska due to a sky full of thunderstorms...

Looking for advise on a good airport in eastern Iowa, or western Wisconsin to overnight at on the way to Oshkosh. Requirements are tent camping allowed and a courtesy car. Could fly to Oshkosh in one day but that would be nearly 8 hours in the air, not counting fuel stops. I want to arrive...

Completed testing the VG installation. They were installed at 7% chord. I considered 5% but Jon Battson had very good results with 7% on his A model wing. I installed them according to directions with one exception. You are supposed to use 60mm spacing for the first 15 vgs inboard from the...

I planned to fly this morning, wanting to do some more VG testing and more work on autopilot settings. Right after lift off I realized I had no airspeed indication on G3X or the G5. Having taken off on runway 25, I climbed to pattern altitude on the crosswind and did a 180 to put me on base for...

I was going to subscribe to the cheapest plan of Sirius XM aviation weather before a long x-country flight later this week. When I went to their website I saw an offer for a 3 month free trial of pilot pro weather and entertainment. Does not require a credit card. Loaded it into my SXM receiver...

My friend Ted with the SQ Cub invited me to fly to the Marble strip and walk the mile into town for breakfast. He had a passenger and I tried to talk my wife into going but to no avail. She has seen it from the ground and realizes what a tight valley it is in between an 11000' ridge and 12000'...

I have a 3" prop extension and was perplexed on how to seal the inlets to the boot cowl. Fortunately we have a Gold Lindy plans built winner in our EAA chapter whom I consulted with and copied what he did. His plane has round inlets and he did everything in aluminum, I used composites to...

Sorry for the delay DB, here's some photos of my installation

Sort of a long story about how we all hooked up, yesterday two cubs and 4 4-place bearhawks descended on Mineral Canyon strip in the Green River canyon west of Moab. We enjoyed hiking, comparing notes on our planes, the stunning scenery, comradery and desert camping. Picture of the group of...

Completed my Phase 1 testing today at 44.9 hours logged. The extra time spent insuring the rings seated was responsible for going over 40hrs before completing all the test cards. I could have signed out last Saturday at 40.5 hrs but I was committed to completing all the test cards. I spent 22...

As this is my first fuel injected aircraft, I have no experience cruising lean of peak. Today I took a 1 1/2 flight at 9000'. Full throttle MP was 22", I set rpm at 2200 and mixture 40 deg lean of peak which gave me a true airspeed of 126K, fuel burn of 10.2gph. The EGTs peaked at about 1400, so...

I pulled my cowling off at 31.5 hours to change from the break in oil to Phillips Victory. Found that one of the stainless tubes supporting the tailpipes had totally failed where it was flattened and bent. . Checked the other three connections and no sign of cracking yet. This one was connected...

A few flights ago I finally calibrated my AOA, which is part of the G3X system. I also bought the display unit that mounts on the glare shield. If you wish you can just have the AOA display on the PFD. I mounted the display centered on the glare shield and as far forward as the curvature of the...

I have been doing stop and goes at a neighboring airport. This airport is on top of a mesa with steep drop offs each end, feels sort of like landing on a long aircraft carrier. I like this airport because it is totally fenced, don't worry about deer like our airport. I think the pavement is...

I have quite a coat of oil and exhaust carbon on the belly of my Bearhawk. What are your favorite cleaners to remove this including homebrew concoctions?

I now have 28 hours on the plane. On my post on 2-18 I had reported I was losing a quart of oil in 10 hours. Turned out it was somewhat worse than that. After a detailed discussion with the most knowledgeable engine guy I know, I decided to work more on seating the rings. Lowell is one of our...

Sometime after Bob changed the 4-place shock strut design to 1 1/8th tubing, I bought the new shock struts from Mark along with plastic streamlined fairings. I glued them onto the struts with 5 min epoxy. The glue has now failed on both of them, and strangely they turn sideways in flight after I...

This picture shows the mount I welded to the center tube. I made the pulley mounts at station D and F wider to accommodate two extra pulleys to the left of the elevator cables, using 1 1/2" nylon pulleys for the 1/16th trim cable.

Thought I would post a picture of this now that I have the vinyl numbers/letters installed. I really prefer this location for the trim wheel, one of the advantages of scratch building, you can make some small changes that work for you. The covered port is a dual usb plug in.

I have a huge amount of air entering the cockpit in front of the front door posts on both sides. I can not figure out where it is coming from. I know that I need to add some weatherstripping to the doors. There is a small amount of air entering behind the front door posts that will be fixed with...