Wow Justin you have my sympathy. Only by reading this I'm getting frustrated!! I have always liked the idea of going for a VW (or other car) engine in a homebuilt but it seems to be way toomuch hassle. (Perhaps except for oupa's BMW). I think you should perhaps do more ground running with the engine...

Hey Oupa this thread has slowed down considerably.... is that as a result of using the wrong prop? :twisted: Sorry could not resist!! Can you share what the reduction on performance was with the loaned prop? I assume somewhere there is a trade-off? Or was the Beemer under propped? It would be very i...

Hey Justin. Long time no hear.......?

Thanks for the feedback! Good luck with the Engine rebuild!

Any news Justin?

In hindsight and withyour experience withall the engine rebuilds for this project, would you still have gone with VW/aerovee ? Seems like you were very close to having a good running engine?

Wow this is really exciting Justin! Must be really surreal to be so close do realising your dream! I suppose now it really takes discipline to get everything 100%. She really looks beautiiful!

BTW is the reg FSR a legacy from the OS FSR model engines form the '80s ? If so it should be a very reliable plane

Hey Justin. What's up? Are we going to see a first flight this weekend ?
No pressure - just excited for your part :D

Great to hear from you again Justin. Hope you had success over the weekend! Keep us posted

Strongs man! Hang in there

Hey Justin how's things going? Have you had any time to do some building this year?

Congrats on your first solo Juan! There is only one first time :)! Regarding the windows. Firstly its generally a good idea not to leave right angle corners in your cutouts in aluminium. Rather leave a radius on each corner to prevent stress concentrations in the corners creating cracks in the Alumi...

Wow Rudi! Thanks so much for sharing your scary event with us. This could so easily have ended in tragedy! Well done on keeping your cool and executing a perfect forced landing. Your actions were quick and decisive and that's what saved your life. Even closing the throttle saved your life. Can you i...

Hi OupaG it was great chatting you again on Friday evening at Morningstar. I was SO happy to hear that the paper war has been won!! Its not just a victory for you but a big victory for NTCA! Great to hear there are people like Braam at the CAA. We need more of them! Hope you enjoy your yellow piglet...

This is really great news!! (^^) Flybynite can you/Stephan elaborate a bit about the problems that have been resolved with this plane? I recall Stephan having significant problems with stability or something that almost seemed as if it was doomed to the scrap heap. I also recall that there were issu...