N201MKTurbo

OK, so a hart is a deer, so I'm going to die from a deer attack! Do you have that problem up there?

You just can't catch a brake around here! Or is that break? I should be working anyway instead of Mooneyspacing....

Maybe as pilots we just have another tool in our suicide toolbox. I guess it depends on weather you want to go quietly or in a blaze of glory! I personally plan on dying from a hart attack while riding my bicycle in a race when I'm 110 or so.

To get the curves they may use 2024-0 and heat treat it after forming. After heat treat it will be very close to 2024-T3. The heat treat consists of heating to 930F for 30 min then water quench withing 8 seconds then 4 hours of ageing at room temperature. It would be good to re-form it right after the quench to remove any distortion from the quench. It gets hard during the aging.

Call Mooney and ask them. I would assume it is 2024-T3. Just measure the thickness with a caliper.

By shooting down an airplane you are just making it crash then and there not somewhere else. If you knew the plane was hell bent on mass destruction it would make the decision easier, but when would you know that for sure? If they had enough inelegance to know that, I would hope they would stop it before the plane took off. And on 911, the planes were full of innocent people. Would you want to pull the trigger on that one?

Military commanders acknowledge that there are specific triggers for destroying civilian aircraft, but they will not disclose them. Presumably they involve several factors, from type of aircraft to flight path to behavior of the pilot. “There are very detailed rules of engagement to which we train on a routine basis,” Paul McHale, assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense, told the Defense Writers Group in 2005. He stressed that any decision to fire would not be made by the pursuing military pilots or their immediate handlers at Rome. “The authority to shoot down a civilian aircraft is delegated to a very small number of very senior officials, civilian and military, within the Department of Defense,” McHale said. The GAO’s D’Agostino assumes the circle is smaller still. “It would have to be the president or the Sec Def making the decision,” she says, employing Beltway-speak for the Secretary of Defense. “The U.S. military does not relish the thought of shooting down civilians.” Read more at: https://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/dont-cross-that-line-5841988/#glVYxvE4zohz8hgg.99

I believe it is illegal for the US military to shoot down a US civilian aircraft.

That’s about right. I can probably work it out. The instructors are glad to get free jet time. T-33, Jet Provost, MiG-15

I’ve rode in a few jet warbirds and been offered a type rating for fuel. Therein lies the problem! Most of the cheap ones burn about $1000/hour.

What makes you think bladders will last forever? I spent 2 hours in a seminar recently about how to fix leaky bladders.

When the fire starts, the nut will melt and vibrate loose, releasing 1/2 the hanger strap, dropping the tail pipe into the inferno. It isn't right, but I think he is going to live to fly another day!

That was assuming 50 Ohms of course. Watts, volts what ever... It looks like we are all in the same ball park. I'm anxious to see your data.

2uv = -101DBm

My wife likes to classify them as junk!

It worked great until I noticed that it didn't work at all.

The last time I flew to Cali a couple of weeks ago the Avidyne would not change to VLOC on the ILS and I had to complete the approach using the KX155. I figured I was doing something wrong. On a flight the other day I just tried to dial up a few VORs on the 550 and it wouldn't pick up any of them. So the NAV receiver wasn't working. I dusted off my old Cushman CE50A service monitor from the garage and took it to the hangar. I fired it up and confirmed that it was mostly working. I set it to 113.7 with a 5Khz tone at 50% and max output with an ELT antenna hooked to it. I could hear a solid quiet tone on the KX155 and a very weak and noisy signal on the Avidyne. Next I ran a cable from the generator to the antenna input on the NAV splitter. I could detect the signal on the KX155 at 0.5uv and it quieted to ~20db SINAD at 1.5uv. This is quite good. With the Avidyne I could detect the signal at 3mv and it got quiet at about 5mv. So the Avidyne was about 2000 times weaker then the KX155. Next I connected the generator directly to the Avidyne which caused my arm to bleed from a wayward ty-wrap tail. It was much better! I could detect the signal at 3uv and it quieted at 6uv. So it must be the splitter or the cable from the splitter to the radio. I replaced the cables and re-connected the generator to the splitter. Now I was getting the same performance as when jacked directly into the radio. No amount of connecting and disconnecting or bending the cables would make it quit! Stupid cables... I was still concerned that the sensitivity of the Avidyne was about 4 times worse than the KX155. I opened the install manual for the Avidyne and looked at the specs for the NAV receiver. It says the NAV flag will go off at 10uv. That is a pretty crappy spec. In reality it is quieting at ~6uv so it is performing better than its spec. The bottom line is the Avidyne has a crappy NAV receiver. But then again it is advertised as a GPSCOM not a NAVCOM. Just some radio porn for you radio geeks.

I can't find this adhesive. The St Clair company was acquired by Royal adhesives in 2004.

That sealant is tough stuff. Your only other choice Is nitrile rubber impregnated fabric. The same stuff that ancient hose is made of. You think a hose that got kind of hard after 50 years, is no good?

And I believe that’s what’s called out in the manual.

3M weather strip adhesive. https://www.amazon.com/3M-MMM8001-Weatherstrip-Gasket-Adhesive/dp/B002NXZ7NW/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1534109934&sr=8-4&keywords=3m+weatherstrip+adhesive

I know the Rocket is stupid fast, but my turbo J would have done it in in about 2:20 with ~22 gallons. That suits me just fine.

Spray it down with Tri-Flo. Work it up and down and wipe it off. Repeat until it is clean. The last step is to wipe as much of the lube off as you can.

That is old news. It only applies to heading reference, not the attitude reference.

Yes it does.