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I examined it again closely yesterday, as I was upgrading some wiring on my instrument panel and battery power. I'm not as hesitant now, as I saw that the rocket will puch on the lower forward part of the cover, and the lanyard will come out easier than I though because the rivets on the windshield in that area have been clipped on the backside, and held in place by silicon caulking. There is one little area that will break, as the lanyard will still have to come outside the airframe, and the eyebrow will definately break away, as it has been riveted to the cross support. at that point, the rocket will be at full speed, and shouldn't be an issue. However it comes out, still is better than streaking straight to the ground nose first
I rest my case.

I'm also happy now that I have a genuine master solenoind up by the battery. The wiring done by the original builder was a hodgepodge of switches powering multible circuits, and the EIS switch as the master. I made a new side panel and cleaned up the switches to each one doing it's correct job, and new ones for nav lights, radio, GPS, landing light, taxi light, instrument panel light and dimmer. I also replaced the 18 gage black wire going to the battery positive from the regulator output with a 14 gage red wire, now that I have more electrical loads. Now to install the landing light and nav light on the right wingtip, as I have done with the LED taxi light and nav light on the left wingtip.

kb

Hi Kess,

you'll make a grand old pilot one day. the new BRS mounting sounds great,
best potential to minimize post red handle pulled recovery costs.

are there some pre flight procedures for the avionics instruments? i was
recently educated about a Northing procedure, like plane on ground, even
pitch, point north, set some dials. Just that my senior friend, he's like
old guard, defense r&d, big ruski planes. unsure what applies to our teeny
tiny ferrari Gulls today.

btw, just what did this guy pull off with 27hp pushing to 126mph!? wonder
what happened to him
http://delta.wtr.ru/files/Strojnik%20la ... 0magic.pdf

rc

In a message dated 2/17/2011 10:54:41 AM Pacific Standard Time,
rahul.chou@gmail.com writes:



you'll make a grand old pilot one day. the new BRS mounting sounds great,
best potential to minimize post red handle pulled recovery costs.


are there some pre flight procedures for the avionics instruments? i was
recently educated about a Northing procedure, like plane on ground, even
pitch, point north, set some dials. Just that my senior friend, he's like old
guard, defense r&d, big ruski planes. unsure what applies to our teeny tiny
ferrari Gulls today.


btw, just what did this guy pull off with 27hp pushing to 126mph!? wonder
what happened to him
_http://delta.wtr.ru/files/Strojnik%20laminar%20magic.pdf_ (http://delta.wtr.ru/files/Strojnik%20la ... 0magic.pdf)





nice article on the laminar Magic!
happy flying
Mark

RE: Alex Strojnik

If I remember right, Mr Stojnik passed a way a few years after that article from cancer...something like 1984-ish. He left behind a series of books documenting his years of research into low-drag/low powered aircraft... Spruce sells them I believe. Couple of folks followed his example...picture of one here

http://alpaero.free.fr/exel/english/index.htm


Jeremy

Now I know why Mark's efforts on the Gull 2000 and Odysey, with their smooth frontal areas, and wings with no struts, wires, hinges, etc make for a speedy airplane. I'm trying to see if my cowled 503 and other wing root clean-ups, together with my in-flight adjustable prop will allow me to keep up with my friends who have higher powered similar looking airplanes that don't have the drag reduction. We will see real soon, and I will keep you posted.

kb

Thank you. Sad to hear this, Mr Strojnik must have been barely 70ish.. can
only imagine how Mark feels about it when the eGull soars at 4.3kW once in a
cruze

Rahul