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Re: X-Air Ultralight Aircraft Simonini 95 hp engine on H-model
X2 on Richard's post, friends don't let friends put?Simoninis on aircraft!
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-----Original Message----- From: Richard Stubbs richardstubbs@... [X-Air_Ultralight_Aircraft] To: X-Air_Ultralight_Aircraft Sent: Mon, Mar 7, 2016 11:26 am Subject: Re: X-Air Ultralight Aircraft Simonini 95 hp engine on H-model
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Hi Bob, I'd be very wary of the SIMONINI engine after 50 hours. The pressed & splined crank does not bode well for the claimed 500 hour TBO In my experience. It's a pity because up until then we had no problems with the additional power and I would have liked to have stuck it to Rotax for their excessive pricing - but I guess reputation costs!?
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On 07 Mar 2016, at 4:38 PM, rhsantom rhsantom@... [X-Air_Ultralight_Aircraft] <X-Air_Ultralight_Aircraft@...> wrote:
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Re: X-Air Ultralight Aircraft Simonini 95 hp engine on H-model
开云体育Hi Bob, I'd be very wary of the SIMONINI engine after 50 hours. The pressed & splined crank does not bode well for the claimed 500 hour TBO In my experience. It's a pity because up until then we had no problems with the additional power and I would have liked to have stuck it to Rotax for their excessive pricing - but I guess reputation costs!? BR Richard. On 07 Mar 2016, at 4:38 PM, rhsantom rhsantom@... [X-Air_Ultralight_Aircraft] <X-Air_Ultralight_Aircraft@...> wrote:
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Simonini 95 hp engine on H-model
开云体育Good morning all, It's been some time since I have posted, but I have kept up with everyone else's post, although recent posts appear to have been fewer in number than I'd like to see. A friend recently assisted an H-model owner with some "quality control" repairs, and this particular kit had been built with a Simonini 95 horsepower engine. Neither of us has had any experience with this powerplant, even though a Hanuman with 95 horsepower out front sounds like fun. Has any one out there any direct experience with this motor, and.... any thoughts on what impact, if any, this engine might have on resale value, vs a similar quality H-model example with the Jabiru 2200? Thanks in advance for any pearls of wisdom from the group, Bob Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone |
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Re: X-Air Ultralight Aircraft nyloc nuts
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Just buy 6mm stainless nylocs also get some stainless
washers, when I built mine I replaced the whole lot from the start - no more
rusty nuts !
get some 8mm ones as well for the larger
bolts
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Seamus
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nyloc nuts
I'm in the process of renewing some of the hardware on my recently acquired X-Air and was wondering if anyone has the spec of the nyloc nuts, used on the stabiliser/elevator? ?I presume they are standard 10mm ones, as can't see anything in the parts manual nor build manual? Cheers Darren Beaumont |
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Re: X-Air Ultralight Aircraft Pod removal question [1 Attachment]
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It is a piece of flattened tube with a 6mm hole in
it.
Looks like it is just pushed into the slot, normally we
would drill the pod and fit a bolt or sometimes just a cable tie but you would
see this from below.
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You should only need to just pull it out of the
slot
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Seamus
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Pod removal question
I am currently removing my pod to gain access to change the part of the frame where the suspension is mounted. Most of the ?pod it is easy to see how it comes apart but there is one part I ?cant see properly so I'm not sure the best way to tackle it. In the tail section there are two thin ( non structural ) aluminium tubes which come down and join a lip on the rear of the pod under the tanks. ?I need to disconnect these from the pod. I can see a rivet but otherwise have no access and cant see what's on the other side of the lip. ?Is there some sort of fitting on the other side which needs to be dissembled or is the tube fitted over a bonded in spiggot and held with the rivet I can see? Do I just drill the rivet ? Photo attached ( hopefully )? Regards, Jonathan |
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Re: X-Air Ultralight Aircraft New member says HOWDY
开云体育The XAIR-X, is a very nice ULM. Only a maintenance and gasolina. Best Regards. ? Enviado desde para Windows 10 ? De: taylorcraftbc65@... [X-Air_Ultralight_Aircraft] ? ? I just "pulled the trigger" on a deal for a 582 powered F model X-Air today. It will be several months before I travel up to the frozen lands in northern Indiana to bring it back to sunny Far West Texas, So I will use this time to learn what I can about a 582 powered X-Air. I'm guessing that it will fly, and "feel" like my 1940 Taylorcraft BC-65, but with a LOT better forward visibility, when on the ground. Right now, that's about all that I know. I'm glad to have been accepted as quickly as I was, and, one day, hope to be able to give advice, instead of just receive it as I will till I get some flight time in my new ship. ? |
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Re: New member says HOWDY
She is currently going for her PPL. She is a competent Ultralight pilot, but she wants to take it up a notch, and flying this as an ELSA, will fit the bill with her. We have a long (1.2 miles) and narrow (750 feet wide) 82 acres in far west Texas cattle country, with a 4,700 by 90 foot grass strip. This may be the perfect aircraft for her.
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Re: New member says HOWDY
Yep - obviously not a fast airplane but very stable and the undercart suspension is awesome for low time pilots or rough strips. The visibility is great. I am 6' 2" tall. The original seats had me sitting quite high in the cockpit and a bit short on legroom. I bought a pair of Hanuman seats and fitted them, giving me about 2" more headroom and the same for legroom. It made it a very comfortable aircraft to fly.
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Re: New member says HOWDY
I watched your full flap landing with the 720P camera, and she looks like a really sweet ship to fly.I'm 6 feet tall, but my sweetie is 5 feet tall, and has an impossible time trying to fly my Taylorcraft BC-65, and can just barely see where she is going with a Cessna 140, with her seat all the way forward. THIS looks like a "proper two seat Aircraft", that she can actually SEE out of, in all flight regimes.
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New member says HOWDY
I just "pulled the trigger" on a deal for a 582 powered F model X-Air today. It will be several months before I travel up to the frozen lands in northern Indiana to bring it back to sunny Far West Texas, So I will use this time to learn what I can about a 582 powered X-Air. I'm guessing that it will fly, and "feel" like my 1940 Taylorcraft BC-65, but with a LOT better forward visibility, when on the ground. Right now, that's about all that I know. I'm glad to have been accepted as quickly as I was, and, one day, hope to be able to give advice, instead of just receive it as I will till I get some flight time in my new ship. |
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Re: X-Air Ultralight Aircraft X-Air Standard
开云体育Thanks Seamus. The search begins!Bill On 3/01/2016 11:01 PM, 'Seamus
O'Donnell' etronics@... [X-Air_Ultralight_Aircraft] wrote:
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Re: X-Air Ultralight Aircraft X-Air Standard
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Its 28.5mm or 1 1/8"
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X-Air Standard
开云体育Anybody close enough to his/her X-Air Standard ( narrow-entry) to be able to measure the outside diameter of the cockpit front roll bar tube (or you may know it as the A-frame)? I? want to replace my splitter cable choke arrangement with two separate choke levers but need to know the diameter of that tube so I can order choke lever assemblies that will clamp to it. Unfortunately my aircraft is hangared two hours away and I forgot to measure the tube last weekend.Thanks Bill 19-3229 |
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