Category Archives: Building

Building the Velocity.

2021-10-26. Maintenance

Posted on October 27, 2021 by Sieders Family

After arriving home after my work trip, I returned to the hangar and removed the cowling, and checked the transfer valve. It was not operated by the throttle movement at all. Maybe finally the eureka moment we all waited for. … Continue reading →

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2021-10-06. Building a RAM Air scoop.

Posted on October 16, 2021 by Sieders Family

I decided to take the airplane down to modify before I start flying my last 12 hours of testflying. It had become clear that the Turbo was not working as advertised. Lots of data crunching eventually let me to compare … Continue reading →

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2021-10-06. Maintenance and upgrade

Posted on October 9, 2021 by Sieders Family

As discussed earlier, through my 28,5 hours of flying I have come to the conclusion that the turbo is not working, and needs RAM Air to feed the turbo compressor inlet. So today I started with once more removing the … Continue reading →

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2021-04 Finishing Work

Posted on April 29, 2021 by Sieders Family

Started off with updating all Garmin Flitecharts, and taking pictures of the lighted fuel quantity indicators, also usable as passenger elbow area mood lighting. Worked a roll servo issue which doesn’t seem to be an issue at all. Ugh.. second … Continue reading →

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2021-04 Finishing Work

Posted on April 28, 2021 by Sieders Family

I started today reinstalling the returned transponder then Howard came in and assisted. He then went to work on the fuel quantity lights, which we hoped were just hooked up backwards. We were right and after a little reconnection action, … Continue reading →

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2021-04 Finishing Work

Posted on April 27, 2021 by Sieders Family

After a great day flying Buzz the trainer together with Ingrid, I am back at home working on my aircraft. First I picked up my dataplate from the shop. Nice job.. I installed it right away. Yes it is not … Continue reading →

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2021-04 Finishing Work

Posted on April 23, 2021 by Sieders Family

The last little bits.. except today we handled some big important items. First, I put more stickers on my plane, door close position etc. The inspector is apparently big on those. Then Howard came in and he tested the up … Continue reading →

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2021-04 Finishing work

Posted on April 20, 2021 by Sieders Family

Today I spend rerigging the ailerons to get required deflections. It’s at required settings now, except RH down, which is 1/8″ short. I am tempted to leave it as I don’t believe it will be a huge detrimental factor. I … Continue reading →

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2021-04 Finishing work

Posted on April 14, 2021 by Sieders Family

Today I renotarized paperwork, and sent it off to the inspector.. fingers crossed all is well now.. The I drove to the engraving shop.. and dropped off my dataplate. It will be ready next week. Good timing, I hope to … Continue reading →

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2021-04 Finishing Work

Posted on April 13, 2021 by Sieders Family

We started today with building the oil cooler airbox. It will fit in front of the intake cooler, and force air through the cooler. We build the walls from fiberglass and baffling material, with L shape aluminum brackets to fit … Continue reading →

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