Category Archives: Cowling

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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Wandering MP.. Let’s look at the Data.

Posted on September 26, 2021 by Sieders Family

After collecting lots of data, and a turbo problem still present, it was time to really look at the graphs that I have been producing with the help of http://www.flightdata.com, a free graphing service. All my flight data can be … 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 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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2020-10 Final Hardware install Upper Engine cowling.

Posted on October 20, 2020 by Sieders Family

Howard Kohnstamm and I took the top cowling off and put on the fasteners. We also took the engine inlet cooling off to drill and rivet the fasteners to them so we can totally have the topcowling ready for fasteners. … Continue reading →

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2020-09 Engine Cowling Louvers

Posted on September 25, 2020 by Sieders Family

I measured the louvers on top to replace them with aluminum ones, custom made and ordered them. on October 6th, we started with putting a new set of louvers on the engine cowling. Aluminum custom-made, it is close to the … Continue reading →

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2020-09 Oil Door Cutout.

Posted on September 22, 2020 by Sieders Family

Howard Kohnstamm and I started to figure out how to cut the oil door out, with straight lines and nice curves. After many tryouts on leftover pieces of fiberglass, we finally decided to cut with the dremel and a diamond … Continue reading →

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2019-03 Finally back at it again..

Posted on March 6, 2019 by Sieders Family

After a busy month with all kinds of other projects, I am back again in my Velocity hangar. It was about time as I am really wanting to finish this project this year. Still quite some items on the list … Continue reading →

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2019-01 More cowling work

Posted on February 9, 2019 by Sieders Family

Today I drilled the upper cowling for four screws in regular intervals. I then installed nut plates on the inner lip on both sides and reinstalled the cowling, this time with screws. It looks pretty awesome. And it is sturdy! … Continue reading →

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2019-01 Cowling work

Posted on January 4, 2019 by Sieders Family

To start the new year with, is engine cowling work ! I added another layer of BID to the two lips, which makes per the manual, 5 BID layers. I then cut those a day later to 1,5 inches and … Continue reading →

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