Comment on "Tom standing by a nice float plane at Deer Park"
Flying with Ttabs, Henry & GeoBlaze too-- I don't even bother to video...over lake Cour de Alene, and back to Felts-- Tom in lead, controller strange, did not...orted" even though we were squawking alt. Lead...Comment on "Here is the former instrument panel before the smoke came out."
This one emitted smoke when the large pressed metal nut that was holding in the 12 volt convenience outlet came off and shorted out the nearby hot lead. The large nut be came hot and melted nearby light gauge wires. Fortunately all this occurred on the ground before takeoff.Comment on "Efficiency: Perfect pitch UAVs and airboats lead to new propellers (at least some good from UAVs / Drones)"
After a discussion I had with Boeing's lead engine designer on our program, his prediction is that current prop technology (for us small engine folk) has peaked ou...