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Kent Ashton

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  1. It would seem easy to wire your PTTs so that either button activates the function (pic) BTW, what is a LEMO?
  2. Another interesting thing about this crashed airplane is that it was owned by the Kansas Aviation Museum before transfer to the deceased.
  3. Just looking at this Cozy crash yesterday. https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/346077 Pic shows the aircraft flat in a field(?), fuselage intact with the gear splayed. Looking at the ground track on Flightaware I will make a WAG that he was flying around at 6200 feet at normal speed and decided he needed to return to the airport but was only about 12 miles out (pic 1). He sees that he can't get down in that distance from that height and begins a circle to lose altitude (scroll the timeline in the diagram at Flightaware) but speed increases really fast. From time 0+26 to time 0+33 his speed goes from 150 mph to 193, altitude goes from 6000' to about 2000' and there is still one more 180 deg turn before the crash. There is a small airfield near the crash site (pic), according to https://www.cullmantribune.com/2023/09/29/vinemont-man-killed-in-cullman-county-plane-crash/ It appears to me he wanted to get on the ground very quickly. No fire mentioned. Fuselage intact. 54 y.o. pilot. Heart attack maybe
  4. Looks clunky to me but might be worth the price. Wild guess that we are seeing the work of a second owner (who can't spell "AeroCanard"). Maybe a third owner can beautify it. The flat nose is pretty ugly and it would hinder adding & removing ballast in the nose which is necessary. Pretty hard to work on a nose-lift device through those small access hatches. Holes for the aileron torque tubes are drilled through the centerspar versus where they normally go (pic). Not deadly but not cool either. Torque tube seems to block the side of the fuselage where a storage area is normally cut-out and there is no cutout in the front-cockpit either. It could all be fixed if the original work is sound. Noses can be cutoff and rebuilt. He probably has $10K-$15K in material at this point.
  5. Here is the wiring for the A210. It might help you determine what's what. You will see that power wires and PTT wires are not shielded but audio wires use shields. Headphone and mic jacks use the shields as a return path but perhaps the last guyused a two-wire connection to mic & headphone jacks with shields over them. https://www.ameradio.com/doc/Icom_IC-A210_installation_guide.pdf
  6. Kent Ashton

    Flat paint

    No flat paint. It would get dirty and be hell to clean. Use epoxy-based primers and 2-component urethane topcoats--PPG, Axalta, etc. There is lots written here about filling and getting a smooth paintable finish. Use the search function. The weight of filler is not substantial. I don't recall anyone measuring before/after weight because it's useful to fill-as-you-go and use leftover epoxy to fill. It is probably the epoxy used in the mix that contributes to the weight, though. I use West Microlight filler--easier to sand--but microballoons on the leading edges. Micro is harder and resists bugs.
  7. Yes, you could remove both F-22 and IP if you want to and it would probably be best. I was just trying to give you alternatives. Cut them close to the fuselage with your oscillating tool or Sawzall and grind off the leftover flanges and overlaps to the fuselage with an abrasive disk and a shop vac. I removed and replaced a winglet once--that had 13 or so layups. It is pretty easy to tell where the fuselage sides are if your go gradually. If you remove a bit of the fuselage sides or less, it won't hurt. I wouldn't try glue a new bulkhead on top of an existing bulkhead. Most everything on these airplane can be fixed. Just remove bad structure back to good structure and rebuild.
  8. It looks like you started to cut out the instrument panel with the round instrument holes. I would rebuild that IP to the size shown in the plans, but trimming it so as to attach it to the leftover flanges on the sides with several (4?) layers of BID on each side of the flanges. I would extend it down to the stub center behind the wheel well and reattach it there with BID overlapping onto the stub. Fill the wheel-viewing hole for now and recut it later. You might get away without the center section but why? It all adds strength and rigidity to the fuselage. Remember that a 200 # pilot at 4.4G is loading that centersection with part of 880 pounds. This would be a good time to cut off the top of the fuselage off of the longerons and make a removable cover over the instruments. It is not hard to do with some hinge hardware on cover and the longerons to make it removable. You will thank me when you start wiring the airplane and working on instruments. The Cozy plans show how to do it. However what bothers me is the structure and UNI layups shown on p. 4-2 of the plans (pic) which have been cut away or left off the sides of F-22. They were likely designed there to transfer the canard load to the fuselage. At the very least, I think I would replace the missing F-22 pieces there, replace the 9 UNI layups on each side of F-22 and replace the BID attaching F-22 to the fuselage. You could overlay the existing layups with new all over the F-22. It would make the F-22 a bit thicker but it won't matter. OTOH, you could sand away most of the existing layups with a die-grinder and abrasive disc, attach new foam at the sides, and rebuild according to plans. It sounds like a mess but it goes pretty fast.
  9. Today's Barnstormers: N35PC. No pics of interior in the ad
  10. Yep, DAP shows it but I called and they said it’s discontinued.
  11. I started a 2nd prop. Weldwood Plastic Resin glue is no longer sold so I used Cascamite. Tried to apply it per directions and it did not hold. Boards could separate at the glueline with a little twisting. Fortunately I had to scrap the prop for other reasons.
  12. This today, N64HL in Michigan. Seen on FB. This site is restricting pic size.
  13. This today. At KEDE in eastern N.C. Seller doesn't want to reveal the price. Gotta beg for it. 😞 N88VE I have seen this airplane. The builder lived not far away. It really was a nice job.
  14. The poster of the ad, Don Morris, appears to be selling the shabby Dwight Yoakem Long-EZ we saw here a while back. https://www.canardzone.com/forums/topic/21972-sales-ive-seen/?do=findComment&comment=91774 N84DY is still registered to Michael Vendl. Vendl and Morris both live in Murphysboro, IL near Carbondale. Whole story is below
  15. This engine might be a good deal. It could be due for an overhaul but I imagine any sound core engine is going to go for at least $8K these days. If the cylinders are first-run, I might try to get them overhauled but I heard from a large engine-shop here in N.C. that they don't overhaul cylinders anymore--just install new ones. However I think many shops will still overhaul them. Cams and lifters are pretty expensive so if the seller will agree it doesn't take very long to pull a cylinder off an engine and have a look. Maybe a look at the logs is enough.
  16. The FAA Registry https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/Search/NNumberInquiry (N3245B) shows a 1982 build and a couple of different owners. The registration has expired but seller McComb appears to have good title. It could be reregistered. Decent price, I would say but I'd like to know why it needed to be "fixed up". I don't think you'd lose any money on it and you might double the value if you get if flying again. I have heard the airplanes with wheels on the canard tips have less directional control on the ground but many are flying and this one has flown. That's a good sign. A plus that it is on a trailer and could be carted home.
  17. Pardon me if you wanted to read about canards but feel you have stumbled into a medical forum but I am driven to discuss this stuff and I hope it will help somebody: 🙂 As I said, I had a heart attack (blockage of the Left Anterior Descending coronary artery (LAD)), got stented, went on statins, had great cholesterol numbers and 13 years later repeated it. What was I doing wrong? I did not know to give up ALL sugar, and carbs--which are converted to sugar. Thus I was regularly spiking my insulin all day. Example: I loved dates and would slice up 5 or 6 to put in my morning steel-cut oatmeal (which by itself is relatively high carb). Some mornings it was whole-grain cereal and a banana. I loved bananas and might eat two a day. We liked breads of all kinds and would eat a sandwich at lunch and a half a loaf or more of French bread at dinner. We liked ethnic foods with rice and often had potatoes of some sort. We were not big sweet-tooths but my wife would make a pineapple-upside down cake a couple times a month--stuff like that. I would eat a bunch of grapes over 3 days. My wife cooked with poly-unsaturated oils, we used Stevia instead of raw sugar. Of course I considered steel cut oats, whole grain breads and cereals, and fruits of all kinds very healthy. "I am eating right", I thought. "Statins are protecting me", I thought. NO! All these carbs and natural sugars were undoubtedly spiking my insulin throughout the day. The insulin flood was damaging the glycocalyx lining of my arteries and the endothelial layer that the glycocalyx protects. My body was repairing the arterial damage but in doing so, building up plaques (like scar tissue) that eventually blocked my artery. Thank goodness one of them did not rupture, totally block an artery, and kill me. For 50% of coronary victims, this is what happens. My arterial-damage sequence continued on the statin because LDL cholesterol is not the cause of coronary disease. Rather, a major cause of arteriosclerosis is high insulin levels resulting from a diet of carbs and sugar, along with some genetic factors that need to be tested for. My GP and coronary docs never tested me for insulin resistance, glucose tolerance, Apo(B) or LP(a). They did not tell me that an HbA1c >5.5, although not diabetic, is still a risk for coronary artery disease (mine was 5.9) .They did not emphasize the damaging effect of insulin or what causes high insulin. They are 15 years behind on the science and highly influenced by drug and food companies. The medical community makes money placing stents, doing bypasses, treating diabetes and selling statins. They don't make money when you are well. As always, follow the money. Take at look at https://www.doctorkiltz.com/glycocalyx/ Also "The Clot Thickens" by Dr. Malcolm Kendrick https://www.amazon.com/s?k=the+clot+thickens+malcolm+kendrick
  18. For reference, the red-leg EZ is N519BM, the Cozy is N93CF
  19. 37% of Americans have Metabolic Syndrome (high BP, overweight, insulin resistant, diabetic or pre-diabetic). Big-Medicine didn't explain M.S. to me because cardiologists make more money on stents and bypasses. Now that I mostly understand it (after 2 heart attacks), I've lost 30 lbs and feel better. An old Air Force friend had the signs and a history of heart attack even though he had bicycled across the U.S. He took my advice to study M.S., lost 33 pounds and dropped the BP pills. If you fit the symptoms, take a look at https://ownyourlabs.com/how-it-works/ The site partners with Labcorp but the prices are much discounted. -Lipid panel (cholesterol) $8.75 vs $59 at ondemandLabcorp. HbA1c $7.70 vs $23. hsCRP $23.10 vs $59. A lipid panel will give the all-important Triglyceride/HDL ratio, <1.8 is OK, >4 is bad. - HbA1c is a measure of blood sugar over the past 3 months. The docs use >6.5 as diabetic but coronary damage starts at >5.5. - hsCRP ("highly specific C-Reactive Protein) is a measure of inflammation in the arteries. Coronary plaques start from damage caused by inflammation Pallies, if you don't know your HbA1c or your Trig/HDL ratio, you might be due for a tour of the Stent/Bypass operating theater. It was very interesting to watch the docs thread the stents into me but not something I want to repeat. A Quiz I heard the other day: For half of those with heart disease , what is the first sign they have it. ANS: They die.
  20. Yup, could be Marc. I took it as "Zero Time Since OH" but even that doesn't tell much about it. Background on my H2AD mentioned above https://www.canardzone.com/forums/topic/18661-kents-long-ez-project/ https://www.canardzone.com/forums/topic/18661-kents-long-ez-project/?do=findComment&comment=46674 https://www.canardzone.com/forums/topic/18661-kents-long-ez-project/?do=findComment&comment=47346
  21. Noticed this 76-series engine for sale today. It is a possibility and I put one on my EZ project. It could be used if you anticipate the problems. I had to make my own engine mount. I made cowls too but maybe commercial cowls could be adapted. The fuel pump is mounted near the nose of the crank so instead I used two facet pumps and had to add one-way valves to build fuel pressure, otherwise fuel feed was fine and the engine would run on gravity feed. I normally cruised on one pump and used both for T/0. You must use a pancake oil filter (a NAPA version worked) in order to clear the firewall. They are good engines since the "T-mod" and permit you to remove lifters pretty easily to inspect the cam. $15K for a zero time engine might be worth the hassles.
  22. Saw this discussion of the MKNG-6 nose gear pivot casting. The pivot made by Brock was OK and has given me good service. No fancy tapered bearings but I installed a grease nipple and give it a tiny squirt occasionally. Also keep it shimmed and tight. For a while, a rather crude cast version was sold which this appears to be, which failed for one chap on landing. (pic). He might have hastened the crack by aggressive scoring for the flox bond but I'd guess the casting is under a fair amount of stress. EZNoselift sells a machined version but it ain't cheap ($450). Cozygirrls list one but I don't know if they stock it. I think if I had the crude cast version, I would change it.
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