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Louis Ingenthron

Just experienced my first real-life engine failure in #GeneralAviation!

Luckily, as pilots always say: "checklists save lives", which is why we were able to detect and identify the issue *before* take off.

During run-up, when I tested the first magneto, the RPMs immediately dropped 200 and then kept falling until the engine started choking. I turned it back on before it died completely. We tried again to reproduce the result and then called ground control for a return to the ramp.

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Aut

Sorry everyone (maybe 1 of you) that was waiting for my Tuesday build night post. Here it is, still working on the tail and riveting the skins on the tail cone. Now we're on to the curved side parts and the directions are pretty vague about the fitment.

A man is inspecting and deburring holes drilled in bulkheads that make up the tailcone of an aircraft.
Close up of aircraft skin with rivets being put into the skin and holding it to the airframe. Some temporary rivets are visible in the line of rivets being actively set.
Close up shot of curved corner skin on aircraft tail. It is held on with a lot of clamps and hopefully the placement is semi-accurate. The directions leave a lot to be desired.
#EAA#kitplane#homebuilt
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Aut

I went for a really nice flight on Sunday with my kid (3). He really liked the part where I pushed the nose over and picked him up off the seat. The air was smooth and the winds were light. A great day for flying.

Cropped in picture from an Aircraft of a High School. The various sports fields are visible around the main building. Since it is winter, the trees in the surrounding area are bare and it looks generally dreary.
Three year old looking out the window of a small airplane. Their headphones are bright and multicolored and their hair is long and a little wild.
Photo of a lighthouse as seen from an aircraft over Lake Michigan at low altitude. The shore is a sandy beach and the lighthouse is surrounded by a forest.
A city (Manitowoc, WI) on the shore of Lake Michigan as seen from a low flying airplane. A river splits the town and buildings of industries long gone dominate the view.
#flying#aviation#avgeek
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Aut

After a trying day at work trying to stop me, I actually did some work on my plane. Nothing super complex but work that has to be done.

I'm working on the elevators (control your pitch) and I have my replacement punched spars so the laser cut parts. They look similar (good)

Once I confirmed I had the parts I peeled the coating off and set to work cleaning up the spars for the rough form they are in.

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Instructions page detailing the how the spars sit in the elevator skins and the spar reinforcing plates to add. It is a nice technical drawing in black and white and easy to tell what parts are what.
Four aluminum spars sitting together. Two are coated in a blue film (punched replacement parts) and two are bare aluminum (laser cut parts that are now scrap). They look identical if not inspected close for roughness.
Two spars wrapped in blue coating sitting next to two plates to reinforce them at the hinges. The plates have the same hole pattern as the area on the spar they are to be placed on.
Blue film being pulled off aluminum spar. Some people really enjoy peeling film off of things.
#avgeek#generalAviation#kitplane
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Aut

It was Friday, 3:00pm, I stepped outside because it looked nice and I needed to check the mail. The winds were light, the skies were clear, and I just couldn't tolerate going back in my basement to work. So I took the rest of the day off and went flying.

An Evektor Sportstar aircraft with the bubble canopy opened. It was been fully preflighted and ready to go.
Viewpoint standing in front of left wing and looking out over the propeller of the Evektor Sportstar and towards the grass and concrete runways at 79C.
Climbing from 79C airport and looking left (North-East). Lake winnebago is seen on the right while Neenah, WI and Appleton, WI are seen in front of the left wing.
Climbing out from 79C and heading east to avoid climbing into KOSH (Oshkosh, WI) airspace. The city of Oshkosh is seen over the right wing tip while lake Winnebago fills the left part of the image.
#flying#pilot#aviation
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