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I never saw any Cessna SMs for free on their site. I'd sure like to know the secret formula.

Isn't the caffeine the whole point of coffee? Decaf tastes awful. Last resort coffee. About 35 years ago several of us went on a fishing expedition. Took tents and sleeping bags. The wife of one of the fellows packed the food. She was a health-food buff, and we should have been a little more...

Yes. One can not only screw things up royally, but symptoms of serious trouble can be overlooked. I once was rigging the aileron system on a Cessna 185, and could not get the tension to stabilize. It would fall off overnight. I finally started examining the whole cable path, and found that a...

The planes that built GA were a lot simpler than current or recent attempts. Cubs, Champs, Luscombes, Taylorcrafts and a bunch of other similar low-powered, slow airplanes. When we start insisting on 110 Kt cruise, we now need much more power. Power increases generally improve takeoff and climb...

So I did. Wiki has this to say about it: The company plans to build six to eight aircraft in 2019 and 24 during 2020, at its plant at South Texas Regional Airport in Hondo, Texas. The plant was officially opened in February 2019 and employs many ex-U.S. military aircraft maintenance personal to...

Discussing the failure of the Skycatcher has nothing to do with this discussion of modernizing GA with affordable airplanes? Where do you get your logic?

There are some free ones online. Just search for "Cessna 172 service manual" or whatever airplane you have, and see what comes up. If they show as a .pdf, try one. Rigging will be under the various chapters of flight controls, or wings, for washout. and incidence.

That aluminum casting starts with a steel bushing in that hole. It's the bushing itself that eats the hole bigger. 2000 hours on a 172 is nothing. There are 172s out there with way over 20K hours. Once done it can last the life of the tire. I started doing it by hand. Take the bearings out and...

This is what the 172R & S Service manual says: Replace as necessary. No different from the old manuals.

Any rebushing oversize is sketchy and does not address the real problem. This is how it stacks up: The upper green line is pointing at the worn bushing hole. That hose is in an aluminum casting, which rotates on the oleo barrel, and that barrel is mounted to the firewall via a couple of...

A new steering collar ("arm assembly") is needed. #27 here: That #27 is pointing at the hole that is worn. Very little margin around it. I have never seen any legal means of reaming it for a larger bushing. Expensive repair. This is what comes from accepting nosewheel shimmy. Some people...

A larger bushing OD implies a larger hole in the structure, which implies a weakened structure. I am familiar with that problem on Cessnas, and there is too little metal there to allow major oversizing. The root problem is dynamic imbalance of the nosewheel. In most shops, if that wheel/tire...

They used the O-200 over the protests of the parent company Textron. But Lycoming, also owned by Textron, had had too many crankshaft issues and ADs and Cessna did not want to add THAT to a new airplane. Sure, they could have used the Rotax, but what other liquid-cooled engines are available in...

You've been here for 81 posts. I've been here for 11,300 posts. This discussion has been raised MANY times, and there are NO easy answers yet.

So how do you like it? Our town's water is hard and it eats the tanks. Tanks no longer have that glass lining they used to have to prevent corrosion of the steel tank walls. They're just finished with some sort of hi-temp paint or something.

Homebuilders have been trying them for nearly 50 years. Drawbacks include cooling problems at high power settings, causing warping of the cases and resulting in leakage around the rotors. A PSRU is also necessary. Wankel and John Deere did try an aircraft version and gave up on it. Diamond is...

It could be two things: The start switch, as proposed by Dana. Those switches get oxidized and burned, and if they don't conduct well the motor just buzzes in a stalled condition. Mikey52 mentioned the start capacitor; it uses the same start switch design, and a weak capacitor could also cause...

Kaman has taken over production of the Cleveland wheel and brake line. Their manual is here: Wheel and brake refinishing is covered starting on page 337. Th manual has an interactive index up front that will take you directly to the page without all the scrolling.

Some academic sources consider the Diesel to be an Otto-cycle engine. The basic Otto involves intake, compression, power and exhaust. Suck, push, bang, blow. The only big difference (besides compression ratio) is the presence of spark with the gasoline engine. Atkinson and Miller engines are...

You are right. 100 million would be a good start, nothing more. So, which modern non-electric automobile or truck does not have an Otto-cycle engine? If its such a worn-out beast, why are manufacturers still making nearly 100 million of them every year, worldwide? As long as there are deep...