Flybaby and Cardinal formation

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I met up with Brian (bnt583) today and we did a little formation. The co-author of his http://www.amazon.com/Modified-Flight-Plan-Lisa-Kovanda-ebook/dp/B00CTF9QHW# Lisa Kovanda was with him and took some precent decent pictures:

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is that the fuel tube/gauge that goes down the middle of the console?
 
kenjr said:
is that the fuel tube/gauge that goes down the middle of the console?
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Yes. Works well, damn accurate, and a hell of a lot cheaper than a fuel totalizer. The left side is gallons in level flight, the right side is gallons when you're on the ground (attitude is different, taildragger).

The elevator trim is that adjustable bungee wrapped around the stick.
 
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Very nice indeed. I like the taper shaft a-65. I have one myself. I have a counter clockwise tach for mine. I am looking for the tach drive cable. Any idea's on where to pick one up.
When you hand prop is the tail tied down or do you just set the parking brake?
Again nice pics.
Tony
 
Fun day! We'll have to do something like that again.
 
Very cool Jess. How close were you? I'm sure the telephoto lens can play some tricks.
 
Cool! It's fun how a few cosmetic changes (pressure cowl, covered gear legs, taller windshield) affect the appearance of an airplane.

Is that an LED landing light in the nose?

Ron Wanttaja
 
Jesse, sent you a private message.... Bring that Flybaby here.....


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Flyhound said:
A CO detector in an open cockpit plane? Isn't that overkill?
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Nope. I've a friend who almost passed out from CO in a Starduster. I've taken a CO monitor with me in my Fly Baby and measured levels of 80 PPM (on the ground).

Cockpits are low pressure areas, and CO will collect there...even in open-cockpit airplanes.

I've got a near-standard Cub exhaust in my airplane, complete with the divided cabin/carb heat exchanger. Here's a shot of the inside of the shroud a couple of years back.
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The exchanger was cracked, and dumping exhaust into the shroud. Fortunately, it was the carb heat side. But if it had been the other side, it would have been feeding CO into the front of the cockpit, which would have gone right over me on its way out of the cockpit....

Ron Wanttaja
 
1600vw said:
Very nice indeed. I like the taper shaft a-65. I have one myself. I have a counter clockwise tach for mine. I am looking for the tach drive cable. Any idea's on where to pick one up.
When you hand prop is the tail tied down or do you just set the parking brake?
Again nice pics.
Tony
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I haven't had to replace the tach cable yet, so not sure where you'd get one. I don't have a parking brake. I have a glider tow hook style setup on the tail. I always chock both wheels and tie the tail down when I start. After it's running I remove the chocks, get in the plane, put my seatbelts on, then release the tail tiedown. Often times this means I leave rope at airports, but rope is cheap.


wanttaja said:
Cool! It's fun how a few cosmetic changes (pressure cowl, covered gear legs, taller windshield) affect the appearance of an airplane.

Is that an LED landing light in the nose?

Ron Wanttaja
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Yes. Although, I haven't actually tried using it at night yet. I should do that soon. It's not really in the nose though. I made a mount out of aluminum sheet metal that is riveted to the cowling. I might make something prettier some day, but this one only took me about five minutes :)

Flyhound said:
A CO detector in an open cockpit plane? Isn't that overkill?
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It wasn't open cockpit when I put it in there and won't remain open cockpit come winter. Even though, as Ron points out, CO can be a risk even while open cockpit.
 
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Awesome pics, glad to see that I haven't used up all of the fun yet!


-VanDy
 
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FYI Ron here's mine.


Paul


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