Happy New Year Kevin, Thanks for the prod. My Q-200 is on short final. The exhaust is finished but I have not run the engine with it yet. I ran the engine for about 15 minutes with stub stacks a

That a way Joseph. Lead the way, and others will follow. Hopefully my admonishment will light some fires. Alan? Sam? Darrell? Sanjay? Jerry?Jon? Seven new planes in 2011? Couldn't help myself.

Jim, The plane is pretty much together. The last position light was wired in today and the landing light was final mounted and the lens put on. The panel has to come off to be anodized and then

Charlie, you are right. They do become lawn darts when pointed straight down. The max speed my airframe has ever seen is around 240 mph during testing. Are you running your new engine yet? JP

Happy New Year Clive, I'm not confusing anything aero or othewize, please reread my email. As soon as anyone demonstrates they can consistantly cruise their Q at 200 MPH + I'll be all over it. BTW,

Hi Kevin,   I am moving up to high speed taxiing.  Does 47 & 46 MPH qualify....?  I guss not.  Sam said I needed to do 50 mph while staying on the centerline.  And. I want to feel confident I can

Try _http://www.langair.com/index.html_ (http://www.langair.com/index.html) he will build what ever you want with proper material and heat treat. Terry Crouch

A bunch of us have over a thousand hours on the phenolic with no measurable wear... Why bother improving this area? Unless you want to spend 10 years building... Mike Q200 Martin wrote:

Happy New Year to everyone. I recall hearing that in 2010 there would be a great multitude of first flights. I am still listening!!! I can't hear you!!! I am sure none of our group has a hangover

Hi Jim > Missed your last reply(away for the Hols) > Appologies, should have said dangley tailwheels. > It,s the tailwheel in the slipstream that does the damage aerowise, that's why mine is tucked up

Clive, Some one could do the dive test with a GPS to plot the L/D = Velocity h/ Velocity v = slope of the exponential curve. Point one straight down I think the wall will be a lot higher than

I know this one has been talked about a bunch. Can someone tell me where the best place would be to get a steel tail spring for a Q200? I looked at the Great planes site and they have one that looks

My thought would be to oversize the hole in the phenolic and flox the rulon into place. Those who have installed these please ring in. Thanks

I needed to replace a broken CS7? for the aileron. I bought a sheet of 1/4" phenolic from A/S, then remembered someone mentioned Step drills. I saw them in Harbor Freight and bought a set. They are

Hi Sam, I use them on both the pivot end and (inset) in the inboard phenolic bearings so contact points are all in Rulon. Happy holidays! Jim P.

Hi Jim. Are you talking about rulon for the pivot end or the inboard side? I believeMartin was asking about the inboard phenolic bearings. Sam Sent via mobile. several years ago and proved that it

Yes I would love to take you up on the offer for a ride. With the Holidays and bad weather here we ahve just had to push it out. He is trying to schedule his check ride and finding a day to get up to

These look good and would be easily installed as long as they come in the correct sizes. Thanks Dan, Saved me some work right here. Glad to have this group. Thanks all.

Thanks Sam, Good advise. I have some folks to call on for this.

Martin, I believe I'm the guy that pioneered the use of Rulon bushings on Quickies several years ago and proved that it works. The steel bushings wore out and I did not want to replace them with