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N486K
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2006
What's this channel about? Not much, really. You'll see a lot of videos or my flying, mostly in my previous plane, the Suberai (Subaru powered Sonerai), some in my first plane, a Cessna 172H and now I'll be making more in my Lancair. You might also find some videos of avionics, I test equipment. And anything else I might happen to take video of. No real rhyme or reason.
Lots of Landings at KTUS
8 minutes of landings at Tucson Internation Airport. Not exciting, but interesting if you're into that kind of thing.
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4 Minutes to Bisbee-Douglas International
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More test flights. This time to KDUG (Bisbee-Douglas International). There really is a whole lot of nothing out there. 7am on a Saturday and the airport was dead. One plane on the field, no one on ADS-B within 20 miles of me.
N486K talking to me during landing
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Yes, my bird talks. Here's some of what it says to me when I'm landing.
Test flight and breakfast at KAVQ
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First test flight after 2 months of down time for maintenance. I discovered that one of my gear doors is having an issue. Should be an easy repair.
Now Arriving, 2024 AOPA / Buckeye Air Fair
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Arrival and landing at KBXK for the 2024 AOPA Fly-In / Buckeye Air Fair. It was about 9am. They were bringing us in both left and right downwind for Rwy 17. This part of the event was pretty well organized. Other parts, not so much.
02-03-2024 How fast is a Lancair and what not to do when landing
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Heading to P08 (Coolidge, AZ) for breakfast this morning. I passed my friends flying a Piper Archer. It really shows just how fas the Lancair truly is. And someone in a Hummelbird flying the wrong way in the pattern. No lights, no radio, no cares about proper procedures or safety. Shows why you need to stay vigilant when landing at non-towered airports.
01-26-2024 KTUS Loop around Mt. Lemmon
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A test flight: You've gotta love experimental aircraft. You can pretty much do what you want to them ... experiment! I've always had an issue cooling cylinder 3. So I modified the baffles. This flight was just to see how well the modification helped with cooling, if at all. Well, it worked!
Last and First - Takeoffs and landings - KTUS / KHII / KSEZ
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My last flight of 2023 and my first flight of 2024 12-30-2023 - KTUS to KHII (Tucson to Lake Havasu) 01-01-2024 - KTUS to KSEZ (Tucson to Sedona) for breakfast with the wife
12-23-2023 KTUS to E95 and back
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After a 2 month break, fixing things on the plane, and around the house, I finally got to fly again. Just a short test flight over to Benson, AZ to get fuel and do a systems check.
Gear Swing Nov 26, 2023
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After completing repair, which took longer than I expected because of ... well, life ... it's time to test the gear by swinging it on the ground. Thanks to Chris Z. for the new pump which cut my swing time almost in half.
Nose Gear Hydraulic Cylinder Failure
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The builder did not properly adjust my nose gear hydraulic cylinder. This caused a failure of the upper mount. Fortunately, fiberglass is typically easy to repair.
KTUS to KSAD and return
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My wife and I flew to Safford, AZ for breakfast, Air Fair 2023 and the eclipse. About 80nm as the crow flies. We had to take the long way around as there is Mt. Graham in the way.
Loop around Mt. Rincon
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A quick flight this morning around Mt. Rincon just to stretch the plane's legs and test a couple of things.
Flying into KDMA
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March 2023: I was invited to put my plane on display at Thunder and Lightning over Arizona 2023. Here's the 23nm flight from Marana to Davis-Monthan AFB
The Incident - fixed the audio at 3:12
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This is what happened to my Lancair back in 2019. This incident caused me to learn a lot about the design, and its evolution
All about my Lancair 320 (well, sort of ...)
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All about my Lancair 320 (well, sort of ...)
1 quick loop around the pattern at KTUS in the Lancair
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1 quick loop around the pattern at KTUS in the Lancair
I don’t see how the original owner was scared to fly if ! Don’t make sense !
Home builds. Meh.
These days some people would call that AI. Its not of course
very cool - thanks for sharing!
Are you a left lane camper?
The oncoming pilot later sat and ate breakfast with you? How did he explain not watching adsb traffic flow?
Where did you find the replacement prop? I bought a Lancair 320 with collapsed gear and prop strike. Can’t find a new prop. Also, how did you determine if engine needed disassembly & inspection?
The prop is a Whirlwind RV200. It’s designed for Van’s RV aircraft. If it works for them, it’ll work better on a Lancair, and it performs beautifully. Beats the old Hartzell hands down. As for the tear down, I spoke with several A&P/IA mechanics. They had the same opinion: the flange on the crankshaft is the weakest point on the drive train. It is virtually impossible to damage the internals of the engine without damaging the flange. Therefore, check the runout on the flange, if it’s in specs the rest of the engine is fine. Lycoming engines have a runout of 0.005 inches. I checked the runout on mine 6 times to be absolutely sure. The worst reading I got was 0.003 inches, the best was 0.002 inches, well within limits. Since it’s experimental I made the call to not tear it down. Over a hundred hours later and it’s still performing wonderfully.
@@Lancair320 Awesome info, thanks for the quick reply. I also dialed my crank many times to be sure and most common reading was less than .001”. I will check Whirlwind props, although the price willl likely go up since Hartzell bought them. Love your Lancair videos. Thanks again!
Just wondering if it was a good thing that this was the weak point to fail instead of a more significant component??? Just a thought if this sub-designed part would not have failed would something more serious might have occurred?
The early A/P was a Navaid unit, I had one, useless junk! Trio took them over and produced the EZ-2 and 3, then the Pro. Trio in my option are at the bottom of the list with Garmin being the best.
I recognize where you parked but didn’t see your Lancair. We arrived about 9:30 am on Saturday and left by 2:00 pm. Sure was a beautiful day and the prevailing attitude was typical of our excellent aviation community. Knowing (and seeing) how well Buckeye promotes and supports their little airport and events there, makes me want to live and base my plane there. I live 8 minutes from my hangar at Mesa Falcon Field and am proud of KFFZ but I would love the GREATLY reduced stress of KBXK’s lower traffic density.
That will certainly get your attention....
I had an incident like that happen to me over 35 years ago at my local airport. The other pilot was flying upwind in a downwind leg. I was counting rivets when he passed, and I was tempted to tell the other pilot that he needed to brush his teeth. We were close!
Coolidge can get a bit confusing, with some pilots choosing a runway based on a 3-knot, 4-degree crosswind, with little regard for the calm-wind preferred runway or what the last 4 pilots just did. I enjoy how well attended the breakfast is there and how many interesting pilots and aircraft show up, but one has to be very alert to deal with some days into and out of there. Thanks for the quick and fun video.
Many thanks..
Can you be any more boring
It would be interesting to see how this airplane would peform with a ROTAX 916is. Fuel efficiency would go trough the roof I guess. Thanks for sharing your plane with us. I‘m a big fan of these little rockets. Wish you nice X-mas! Greetings from Switzerland
CS prop on a 320? I don't know much about experimental stuff but how is this accomplished? Electric or hydraulic? Freakin sweet though!
Looks electric to me. I have an IO-320 with a hydraulic cs prop though
A thing of beauty ♠️
15:50 most times, doing the plenum isn’t as cool CHTs as well sealed baffles.. and changing spark plugs is more difficult.. as for that Rotec throttle body thing, DONT do it! Everyone that I know who did it has had nothing but problems with them.. junk! Either call Don at Airflow Performance for a fuel injection conversion, or stay with the carb.. which model carb do you have? The 3678-12 runs a little richer than the others, which should help your CHTs..
I've made this repair to 2 airplanes. It can also fail from the extended length being incorrect also. Meaning, the actuator is too long. It blows the mounting plate out the top, just like pulling it down out the bottom. Make sure that with hydraulics powered up, the bolt should just slip into the rod end on the over center link.
Thanks, Tom! I actually had to grind off about 1/16" of the thread to get it to be proper, but it's good now. The bolt slides in when down, and when it's retracted there is just a tad of wiggle left in the gear going up so I know the cylinder isn't pulling on anything but itself when closed.
Lancair 300 series airplanes are the absolute easiest airplanes to work on. Remove top engine cowl, canopy, and header tank (45 min.) and its like working on s workbench. From engine to avionics, brakes, controls… It is an hobbyists dream…
I've become quite proficient at lifting the canopy / header tank up by myself. I can raise it up about about foot and flip the header up. Gives me plenty of room to work on things up there, and only takes me about 30 minutes to do it.
I have yet to make Gila Bend airport a flying destination but back in about 1989 through early 90s, I flew a hang glider over it twice, on my way East from Oatman Mountain, North of I-8 and Painted Rocks/Petriglyphs. I want to fly out and land there soon though.
Another fun (and purposeful) flight in the logbook 😎🎩♠️
That was fun Larry. Thanks for bringing us along. And we all know, that landing was fine. Could it have been better? Yeah, a little- but it was fine 😎🎩♠️
What a very cool privilege to feature your plane there! And add to that, having scattered cumulus clouds decorating your flight there. A fairly rare occurrence in Central and Southern Arizona 😎🎩♠️
Larry your Golden Lancair looks good! E60 sure can be a flurry of activity during peak skydiving times. Looks like this was a good day to be there 😎🎩♠️
I almost flew to this Safford Air Fair. Would have been my first time landing there. But several friends wanted breakfast at KAVQ. I’m enjoying your video of flying over the geography I’m familiar with. Glad I found your channel 😎🎩♠️
So glad I found your channel. There is not enough content on Lancair planes. I (kinda) have two things in common with you. I’m in Arizona (base at Mesa Falcon Field), flying often to the airports between Phoenix and Tucson. And I own what I like to call my Baby Lancair 320- a Skystar Pulsar III with 120 hp. I’m subscribed and will look at your whole content library 😎🎩♠️
Welcome! I'm sure I'll see you at the various fly-ins. I'm planning on going to Coolidge on Dec 2.
did you open the engine to check the crankshaft or just looked/measured the prop flange?
So with this stronger nose wheel fork where will energy be transferred to next in a hard landing? Would entire nose gear now go up into airframe?
At 18:30 is the flap alignment correct? thx for new lancair content.
Yes, it's correct. Lancair have a 10 degree reflexed flap. When the flaps are aligned with the fairing, that's 0 degrees, she when they're reflexed they pull up above. Reflexed flaps, for those that don't know, help a plane fly faster.
@@Lancair320 i like lancairs even more now :-).
Amazing walkthrough. Looking forward to hear more about what you do with it!
Did you measure the hardness of the original fork? If not and you still have it, I would be happy to measure it. One benefit to a softer fork is that it will absorb more energy and transfer less to more expensive parts like the strut and the engine mount. The trick is to find the right strength level to break the cheaper parts first. That replacement fork is what they use on the Legacy just drilled with smaller holes, 1/4" vs 5/16".
Hi Chris. My mechanic had it. I'll have to ask him if he's still got it. The biggest thing that got me was just how much the new fork was beefed up. I'd say it's a good 30% bigger in just about every dimension. On a somewhat related note, the nose hydraulic cylinder ripped out of the top of the well last weekend. I'll have to make a video about it, but the short version is it appears the builder didn't properly adjust the closed stop travel. Just off enough to slowly break the glass over a couple of hundred cycles.
@@Lancair320 yeah saw the vid last night. Bummer. The new fork is beafier because Lancair simply took the Legacy fork and drilled it for the 360. They didn't want to stock two different parts. If you find the old one, I would be glad to measure it for hardness.
How long did it take to get back in the air?
About 6 months. I wasn't in any hurry, wanted to make sure it was fixed properly and the plane was safe.
Just curious - what was the METAR at the time of that landing? Glad you're ok.
That was so long ago that I honestly don't remember. It was nothing of any concern, that's for sure. And the FAA agreed. If the fork hadn't been the way it was, it just would have been a hard landing and no big deal.
Nose fork issues? Made of 2024 ? Heat it to 440 C for 30 minutes, dip it in water after that. It has a low yield strength for say 1hour increasing to the full strength in three hours. Bend it back. Check for cracks after that. Another possibility for a skilled home builder is to laminate the same design to a 1.5 more plate thickness in carbon fibre. Use a substantial amount of UD in vertical direction and a large radius.
I'm no expert on heat treating, but I will say that Lancair Uvalde had to work out how to properly treat the new forks. The instructions they had from Oregon didn't work. Or at least they weren't happy with the results.
Very interesting but surely you have more audio to add to the report.... you were almost too low in level to be able to hear.
Hmm, it’s fine when played here. I’ll look into it, see if there is something I can do. A compatibility setting or something. Thanks for letting me know.
Audio was fine for me. Nice lancair and love your changes & upgrades. I had a 360 years ago I bought from the builder and it always ran hot until I got the speed up in cruise climb...nature of the beast to some degree I believe with the tight cowling.
Great info, even for virtual Aerobask fliers like me.
Hello, glad I found the channel! I came across a 320 and am wondering what to do with it. I also have a Bonanza so pressure to fly it is not great. One problem is the panel is way too short and my shins hit making it very difficult to put my feet on the pedals. It’s a 97 so it has some upgrades but I’m not sure about putting the effort into it. Thanks for the videos and information. Curt
Hi Curt! I'm 6'2" and haven't had any issues with the panel since I pulled out all the padding. If I sit on the passenger side I hit, so I know what you mean. I'm not sure if the panel on a 97 is identical to mine. From the looks of others, it appears that the panel changed over time, or pilots make changes during the build. At any rate, glad you found me, if you have any questions, I'm here.
How much did you snatch the plane up for?
Well below what it is worth, and less than the price of an average new car. :)
Nice history; thanks for sharing. I'm sure that it was purely accidental that you zoomed in on that Cessna that you're dusting off at about 16:10. 😏
Yeah, it's not often that I'm close enough to another plane in cruise to get a shot like that. I need to capture me taking off on the parallel next to a Cessna. Even though I'm climbing out relatively slowly, I still smoke them on takeoff too.
Ty for your detailed explanation of your super beautiful plane 🛬🛫✈️ truly a great job ☝🏻
Love the plane. Great job
Thanks for the info. Sorry about the incident, but glad you are ok, and that this has allowed you and mfr to discover some “opportunities for improvement” to the design. Wonderful airplane.
great video, thanks!
What implications ie: the prop strike?
My last reply got corrupted, weird. Anyway, short version: engine was good, didn’t need to be rebuilt. Rear bolt and gear was replaced, runout is well within specs. Half a dozen oil changes / analysis and 200+ hrs later and it’s running great.
@@Lancair320 just curious the picture of the nose wheel at the end of the video is that with the new fork or is that the old fork?
@@1jagman That's the new fork. Much larger than the old fork.
Thank you!@@Lancair320