I am back from holiday and I have some pictures of oom Carel I will dig them out and will post them.

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It is sad to announce that Carel van Aswegen builder and the designer of the Vansin passed away this morning. This closes a chapter in the history of aviation, I regard myself very privileged to be the owner of this wonderful aircraft.

Carel rest in peace

We all honor you in admiration

Oupa-G

Hi Mac The BMW is very smooth almost turbine smooth but a two cylinder will always be more impulse prone then a four cyl and the flat apposed 6 cyl is the smoothest of them all. Then if you change the silencer you have a new resonance box like a guitar box and for us privateers we can only build and...

Have test flown the new exhaust , viewing the test results on the MGL Black Box Viewer I had no loss in power changing to the new silencer I also added the tailpipe ad on . I will have to check the exhaust for cracking with more hours to come. The resonances and vibrations are high and the proof of ...

Wonderful having papers and some free time I'm really enjoying this plane she flies well climbs very well . Today finished the finer details on the exhaust also made an ad-on tailpipe removable all to make this quiet I will see if the performance is affected just some foties.

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Nico wonderful she has a tailwheel and that is the most important. The issue of red or yellow is a personal taste. Many happy hours the Safari has its papers and is also a dream. Drill holes in the sky.

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Having some free time to play and also play with ZU-OTT. I'm having a wonderful time fine tuning the Stratomaster . The Aerie is turbine smooth and I can come home and study on the SD card all the parameters of the flight. I have tried to group the oil temps together and also the power graphs. The M...

Thanks you all. I had a wonderful day surrounded by my kids grand children and dogs and they spoiled me rotten. It is wonderful this time of life there are experiences you cannot have at 30 and I would not like to miss them. So I'm taking it year by year so next year I will be aiming for the big 70....

Hi eagletrike the EboXi is available and we make them on request. The paperwork has now been more formalized so that in field installations can be done more easily. We have had a lot of feedback from users and we could see where people not deeply involved with the wiring etc have a mis conception. B...

The official document arrived today, so Braam did his thing and I'm pleased. This project will now move at lightning speed. Today after work I quickly went and loaded the airframe and under carriage to 2.5 G pos and took all the measurements. Tyre's were pumped 2.5 Bar. I had all the bricks ready fr...

After picking up the Vansin from Ysterplaat I met the Global Aviators in their Sling 4 in the air, they were on their way to Gauteng enclosed a fotie a brand new aerie and the foto was taken from the Vansin which first flew in 1979 that is 32years ago. Very advanced homebuilt for its time. A wonderf...

Thanks Andy

The value of a club get together and exchanging ideas always enhances aviation and safety. It is also wonderful to hear these Global aviators and the extreme efforts they put into their projects. They Mike and James and Jean, and their team are special.

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Mic it is an absolute pleasure it will help to keep a finger on the motion lotion.

Now that I have the long sought after papers you can join me on a test flight.

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Thanks Boet and to all sharing in my long stretched out paperwork. I must say that although the loading of the wing was unnecessary because it was done in Komatipoort actually witnessing such a load gives a lot of respect for the original design and I can see the reason why no aircraft of this famil...

Today was a good day it all started when Braam arrived as arranged at 1 O'Clock we had a bite to eat and then did a tour of my workshop and proceeded to the hangar and there we measured the wing and then packed 123 4.1kg bricks on top of the foam mattresses which had a hardboard layer on top there w...