Building Ribs without pain

I was talking to Leonard the other day and he mentioned a great way to keep the glue from sticking to the rib building fixture. Mark out where the gluing will take place on the board and then cover these areas with 2″ wide clear package ceiling tape. The glue does not stick to this tape. I have not tried this process yet but will so do in near future.

Ultralight Fly In

Ultralight Fly-In at Aero Estates, T25 in Frankston, Texas, this is east texas, about 20 miles south west of Tyler Texas and 100  miles South East of Dallas.  There will be at least 2 Legal Eagles present.  Event starts at 9:00 a.m. We are having a Gumbo feed between 11:00 and 1:00. Event sponsored by EAA chapter 972 here on the Field. Our Field is 3100 ft x 60 ft grass strip.

FLY IN DATE SATURDAY JUNE 1st.

Legal Eagle Support Parts

This is what I have been busy on for last few weeks. Setting up business, getting stock of materials and building up stock of for sale components. Now it is time to let the world know what is available. More parts and more good things to come.

Good Morning from ORV in East Texas

It has been a while since I have posted so getting things going again. I have finally been able to easily get in and out of ORV since getting Knee replaced in early December. Before Knee replacement the pain would get so bad i could hardly get ORV back in the hanger. Afterwards had to recoup and then get to where my knee movement was better and finally had to make some changes to ORV. A video will be forthcoming explaining and showing what has happened.

Oil tank change on Legal Eagle XL 7-1/2 to eliminate oil blowing overboard and maintain constant oil pressure.

I placed the oil tank with minimum weight in mind, used a round tank attached to engine and close to engine. This maximized weight savings but has been a problem in that we are constantly blowing oil overboard and loose oil pressure at times. Finally determined the problem to being air oil from engine, the Verner 3V is a dry sump oil system, oil and air was not separating resulting in foaming in tank. This resulted in oil air being blown overboard and pumping foam in place of oil resulted in lose of oil pressure. We changed the tank to one like on Legal Eagle XL ORV and it seems to be working as desired now.

First Flight of Legal Eagle XL SR 7-1/2 since back in March. Had a lot of things on our plate and Needed some work on this one.

I have had a problem every since first flying SR 7-1/2 with the Verner 3V. The Verner is a dry sump type of system and I mounted to oil tank on engine close up to crankcase to save weight. This was not the way to do it. After considerable study we believe the oil/air combing back out of engine did not have enough time and distance to separate resulting in pressure in oil tank and loss of oil pressure at times. The new tank is similar to one on ORV and seems to be working great. No blow out of overflow and oil pressure did not fluctuate.