WHO: The Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum

WHAT: is sponsoring Open Cockpit Days with the World War II strategic
bomber the B-29 Superfortress. These Open Cockpit Days will be held
over two weekends in August.

WHERE: at the Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum located on the grounds
of the Pueblo Memorial Airport (PUB). The museum is located 6 miles
east of Pueblo Colorado on US Highway 96/US Highway 50 East.

WHEN: 2 August 10 AM to 4 PM, 3 August 1 PM to 4 PM, 9 August from 10
AM to 4 PM and 10 August from 1 PM to 4 PM.

COST: $7 for persons aged 10 years of age and over. Active duty
military admitted free with valid military ID. There is no additional
cost to sit in the cockpit of the aircraft.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The B-29 Superfortress carried out the
strategic bombing campaign against the Empire of Japan during World
War II. The B-29 also carried out the world's first attacks with
nuclear weapons against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The
museum opens the B-29 to the public on this date to mark the 63rd
anniversary of the atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.

Someone wrote:
"Or even hot rod "kiddie" (after market) stuff"

The term 'kiddie trade' was coined by after-market VW retailers to
describe customers who act in a foolish or immature fashion, such as
buying a chromed part to make their bug go faster, wrapping magnets
around the fuel pipe to increase their mileage and so forth.

Since the role of the retailer is to fulfill the demands of their
customers, they are quite happy to sell even items they know to be
decremental to the vehicle or engine. And yes, they are present even
within the aviation community, offering engines that will rust out
before they wear out, and so forth.

The term has nothing to do with age but with technologically naive
buyers, as in the taking advantage of.

-R.S.Hoover

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VW Engine Wear Factors

The exhaust valves are the weak link in any air cooled Otto Cycle
engine using poppet valves. The service manuals for Pratt-Whitney and
Wright provide the best examples of how the exhaust valves should be
designed for optimum wear. Valve stems of large diameter and sealing
surfaces of generous width provide the path for heat to flow out of
the head of the valve and into the body of the cylinder head.

The Volkswagen engine compromises most of these design factors in
order to keep the cost as low as possible although some features, such
as fatter valve stems, may be seen on Porsche engines.

I'm trying to use a ratcheting tie-down as a comealong to move an
aircompressor to a trailer.

I'm finding that as the webbing builds up on the ratcheting barrel, it
will eventually interfer with the prawling mechanism. This limits the
distance the tie-down can pull to about 3 feet. Useless.

I've taken up as much excess as I can at the load end, but the barrel
still fills too quickly.

Any suggestions or am I using the wrong tool for the job? - MIke

Most Experts Aren’t. That's something the late Smokey Yunick said
back when I was a seaman deuce. Every month my mail delivers one or
two messages saying it's still true. The messages usually come from
some superbly experienced fellow who has literally spent his life
working on cars or trucks. He is the Local Guru when it comes to
engines for homebuilts and he's taking the time to let me know that
the automotive engineers I like to cite in my articles aren't quite as
bright as I seem to think they are, offering an experience-based
example to prove his point.

Unfortunately, the offered example invariably deals with cars or
trucks, things in which the fellow has a life-time of experience,
whereas automotive in the sense used here, does not, although it could
include them. To an engineer, automotive means something that can move
under its own power. Like an oil tanker, the Space Shuttle, or a gold
dredger.

At www.rstengineering.com you will find a link to the Oshkosh Bound 2008
files. These files have the "Oshkosh Bound" posters for your windows, the
frequency chart for the Oshkosh area (aviation, public safety, EAA & UW-O
operations, and the like) and the Ripon-Fisk graphics. Please download them
and use them with our compliments.

Sorry I won't make it this year. See you next year.

Jim

I'm working with 4130.
I have a piece of tubing with a series of rust holes which do not
cover an area greater than 1/2 ", so it appears a welded patch repair
would be appropriate.
Reading 43.13,, Figure 4-36, it appears the patch tube will have to be
expanded in diameter in order to fit over the injured tube (can't slip
the patch over the injured tubefrom an end).
Will there be any problem if I heat the patch so I can open open it
and slip it over the injured tubing? - Mike

some interesting points came out of one guy's query re servicing some
old brake master cylinders.

gringomasloco commented regarding broken brake lines spraying brake
fluid over hot calipers and setting the wheels on fire. hmmmmm.

I am talking about light private aircraft here...

as I put it in the subject line aircraft brakes were never designed
for stopping aircraft. they were designed to hold aircraft.
now that may sound like semantic nonsense but it is true.

aircraft brakes were designed for use in holding the aircraft still
while the engine was started. after the taxy out and the engine has
warmed you do a run up check to make sure that the magneto circuits
are up to the bit of work that lies ahead for them. the brakes are
applied to hold the aircraft while the revs are bought up and each
maggy checked in turn.

from a design aspect that is the end of the use of a light aircraft's
brakes until after landing and we wish to hold the aircraft still for
shutdown and disembarkation.