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  1. Erbman

    Youngest Bearhawker!

    Emily Elizabeth Erb was born 10 January 2015 at 0335. This is the outfit she wore home from the hospital. You've got to imprint them young. Thanks to Jared Yates for helping to produce the onesie. Note that she's already practicing to fly in the right seat next to Dad. Her right hand has a...
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    Bearhawkers are a Small World

    Between Christmas and New Years the wife and I were at Disneyland (actually California Adventure). We were standing outside the Muppets 3D theater when a man came up behind me and asked if I flew a Bearhawk. It was Robbie Staton of Lonoke AR, who built the second customer built Quick Build kit...
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    Best Jacket Ever!

    A friend put this together for me and my wife using a drawing and a Bearhawk name patch from the Bearhawk Store. She only made two and has no interest or time for production. I used to think that this was great but I would have no opportunity to show it off at Oshkosh. Then again, after 2013...
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    How I instantly gained 13 extra knots of airspeed

    I built Three Sigma with a proper Pitot-static system, placing a Pitot-static tube (with Pitot and static ports) on a boom well in front of the left wing. Even though it is a heated Pitot-static tube, I included an "alternate static source" in the static line. This is simply a Curtis fuel sump...
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    Airspeed Gain from Wheel Pants

    During the past couple of years I have been building fiberglass fairings for both ends of the wing struts, the landing gear shock struts, and wheel pants. This covered all of the areas that budd davisson said could use some aerodynamic cleanup. Many of you saw the finished versions at Oshkosh...
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    Erbman is here with Three Sigma

    Bearhawk #164 "Three Sigma" has been flying since 2009 (with two brief flights in 2008). So far it has been to Oshkosh 2009, 2011, and 2013. I was member #7 of the original Paul Beam e-mail list in 1996, and as far as I know, #1-#6 are no longer participating. Wow, don't I feel old. Russ Erb...
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