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New cowling oil temp issue, conditional inspection ect.
This a a roll up of about a weekends worth of work done over a month (due to school consuming all my time) Now that the temp have been increasing and summer is here I have have been having problems k… more →
Acropilotbret's Pitts S-1S
New cowling oil temp issue, conditional inspection ect.
acropilotbret wrote 5 months ago: This a a roll up of about a weekends worth of work done over a month (due to school consuming all my … more →
Happiness is flying inverted!
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acropilotbret wrote 8 months ago: Absolutely gorgeous weekend logged a 0.6 snapped a photo while I was inverted. The plane is runnin … more →
More Test flying of the New Cowling
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acropilotbret wrote 10 months ago: Well this is a roll up of several days flying. I have flown 3 more flights or 1.7 hours since the la … more →
Test Flying the New Cowling
acropilotbret wrote 10 months ago: Well this afternoon I as able to catch a test flight with the new cowling. First off everything went … more →
Finished up the cowling mod
acropilotbret wrote 10 months ago: I dug the foam and clay out of the now cured oil cooler hood. This took a bit I used some acetone t … more →
More little things to clean up
acropilotbret wrote 10 months ago: I spent the day finishing off the mold for the oil cooler hood. I was lucky and found the right siz … more →
Nick Nack Clean up
acropilotbret wrote 11 months ago: So Now that I have completed major construction on my cowl i have a bunch of nick nacks to clean up … more →
Riviting the Cowling Piano Hinge
acropilotbret wrote 11 months ago: Tonight I finished up the major construction on the cowling by riviting the piano hinges to the cowl … more →
Mounting the Cowling Permenently
acropilotbret wrote 11 months ago: Today I started off by trimming the spinner back about 3/16 – 1/4″ to help leave a gap b … more →
Installing Spinner nutplates and screws
acropilotbret wrote 11 months ago: As the profile cutting is completed, I have the also important and scary drilling the holes for the … more →
Riviting Front Baffle and Spinner profile cutting
acropilotbret wrote 11 months ago: Today I completed the front baffle by attaching the angles and brackets that hold the baffle I used … more →
Securing the front baffle
acropilotbret wrote 11 months ago: I have been away seeing family for 8 days. I came back with a head cold and spent all of Monday and … more →
More work on the Front baffle
acropilotbret wrote 11 months ago: Today I took the day off work exclusively to work on the plane. I took the front baffle up to my fr … more →
Modified Exhaust Arrives
acropilotbret wrote 11 months ago: Tonight I spent the whole time out at the airport fitting my new exhaust mod to the engine. I also w … more →
Fabricating the forward baffling
acropilotbret wrote 11 months ago: Today I spent some time transferring the paper template I made for the forward baffling to the alumi … more →
Moving the Oil Cooler and front baffle
acropilotbret wrote 11 months ago: Tonight I spent some time figuring out where the oil cooler can go other then on front of the #2 cyl … more →
Exhaust Re-Route 2
acropilotbret wrote 12 months ago: Tonight I was able to get a ton done. I was able to get the PVC mock up glued screwed and boxed up. … more →
Exhaust Re-Route
acropilotbret wrote 12 months ago: So I haven’t done that much since before Thanksgiving but yesterday. I got an email from Rich … more →
Filling and sanding the cowling some more
acropilotbret wrote 1 year ago: Tonight I spent about an hour sanding down the filling of bondo and in some more severe areas the mi … more →
