Wild West Aircraft

[kenryan]

Steve, it's really easy to make your pictures smaller using this link https://pixlr.com. Like all this computer stuff, it's not necessarily easy until someone shows you. Here are some instructions if you are inclined to try it:

1. Go to above link and scroll down to "Pixlr Express" -- click on "Launch Web App"

2. Click on "Browse" - this will open a window showing your computer file system. Click on the file (picture) you want to make smaller and then click "Open."

3. Now you have the picture you want to modify loaded into the program. Click on "Adjustment" and then click on "Resize."

4. Now you will see a little tool for resizing your picture. Notice that there is a little slider bar called "Keep Proportions." Make sure that is slid over to the right. If you don't have that slider bar in the correct position, it is possible to distort your pictures. But if it is in the correct position, you can just change one dimension (height or width) and the other will automatically change to the correct number.

5. With the slider bar in the correct position, change the width to 1020 (example) and notice that the height automatically adjusts to 680 (example). Click "Apply." The picture is now resized and all that's left is to save it to your computer.

6. Click "Save." A window pops up that will allow you to give it a name and adjust the quality. For naming it, you might just want to add "-small" to the original file name. For quality, it is usually fine to just leave the slider bar where it is. Once you have named it and set the quality, click "Save" again.

7. Now the window showing your computer file system pops up again. This will allow you to control which folder you want to put the -small file in. By default it will put it in the same folder as the original, which might be where you want it. When you have it where you want it, click "Save" one more time and you're done.

8. As long as you give the file a different name (by adding -small to the original name) the original file will remain unaltered. But if you don't change the name AND you save it to the same folder as the original, the original file will be written over and you will lose your high quality original photo.

It's a piece of cake once you've done it a couple of times. Takes less than a minute and the size of your pictures will be reduced from megabytes to kilobytes with no reduction in quality (when viewed on this forum).

Once you have that mastered, you might want to look at the "crop" feature. That one allows you to cut out just a portion of a picture and make it the same size as a full picture (for showing a detail).

[BDA]

Or email picture to yourself - choose "small size".( Iphone )
it will work then.

[taildrgfun]

I got my cowling pretty much finished up today including glassing in the scoop in the bottom of it for the radiator.

[moving2time]

Steve, A fellow pilot I know built a Glastar and put a Subaru in it. The cowling is quite stuffed so he built some very intricate ducting to get the air to his radiator which is located between the engine and the firewall. The whole assembly is quite complicated. He found that he was not getting the air movement through the system for sufficient cooling and struggled with it for a while. Specially since everything was so tight he couldn't really make the ducting larger in volume. Then he talked to someone that told him to build a small down turned lip on the bottom exit edge of his exit duct below the firewall where the air exited the cowling. Apparently the down turned lip causes low air pressure behind the exit duct which helps pull the air through the scoop. Do you find that you ever have an issue cooling your engines? Do you incorporate anything like this to maximize the air moving through the radiator? I assume that the scoop directs air through your radiator. Jan is mounting the radiator for his Viking installations basically below the bottom of the cowling and adding a scoop to direct the air through his radiator. Sometimes it is hard to get the air to flow the way you want. The down turned lip is a trick I always remembered. As I recall he experimented with the size and angle of a temporary lip to find out what worked best. Through that testing he determined an optimum angle which I don't remember but I can always ask him again. Joe B

[taildrgfun]

Joe, yes I have been using the downturned lip trick for a long time. It makes a huge difference.

[taildrgfun]

My newest Highlander is pretty much ready to fly, I just have to get all the legal stuff done with the DAR and that. It has the 150 hp fuel injected Yamaha Apex engine, Beringer landing gear, Superstol tail wheel shock assembly, covered in yellow Oratex, and it’s gonna smoke those Carbon Cubs in a stol contest or a stol drag race either one. I don’t say that to just everybody but I guess I can say it on here. Oh yeah, it has Nitrous too, 40 hp boost.

A lot of my friends fly Carbon Cubs and they really do like them. Most of these guys are really good pilots too, and when you have a Carbon Cub with a guy that really knows how to fly it they are definitely a tough competitor.

[av8rps]

Yes, Carbon Cubs are pretty impressive planes. But it sounds like you've just created their nemesis. (hmm? I'm sure you've already planned to name it "Hee Haw --", but with up to a 190 hp in a Highlander maybe you need to sneak a little moniker on it somewhere that says "CC Nemesis" just to psyche them out (LOL).

I can hardly wait to hear more once you get some hours on it.

I will admit that I know little about the Beringer gear, but I'm curious why you prefer that gear?

Paul

[BucF16]

Geez Steve, She'll takeoff straight up from a sit. May I ask why you changes to the Super Stol tailwheel from your airshock tail wheel on your last Yee Haw. I haven't welded my mount yet and could change over if you feel the SS is a better choice.

Paul, if you look at page 10 of the "tacked picture" thread on page one above, you will find a picture of Coltin Brown's Highlander sitting next to a Super Stol. You will see that with the Beringer Gear Struts, the Highlander is sitting at a much higher angle of attack. And if I'm correct, it is very near the critical aoa, therefore an earlier opportunity to get airborne in a three point attitude.

Cheers Bruce

[taildrgfun]

Bruce I use the Superstol tail wheel assembly because it’s just easy to get it that way from the factory when ordering a new kit. My TK 1/Shock Monster tail wheel assembly has been working great for 340 some hours now with the Tundra-lite tail wheel on it. The new one will also have the Tundra lite tail wheel, they are the best!!

Shock Monster front suspension works very well too. I’ve used them for thousands of landings and I really like them. The Beringer people approached me about trying their landing gear and they gave me too good of a deal to refuse. At this point after using it for about a year I think I do like it a little better than the Shock Monster but it also cost a lot more. Shock Monster is also starting to build gear legs for the Highlander which I think will be better quality gear legs than what the factory makes for the same price. They are using heavier wall tubing and it’s tig welded and heat treated and several things that I think make it a better unit. I know that the main front tube is the one that takes the brunt of all of the landings and they are going to be .058 whereas the factory tube is 035 I believe. I went upside down once because of a failed gear leg and it cost me about $10,000 and two months labor because of it. I realize that I land probably thousands of times more than most people and that it would probably never happen to someone else but I sure don’t want it happening to me again.

[BucF16]

Steve, Thank you so much for the quick reply. I'll weld the Monster Shock tail wheel mount next week. Next question,,,, Will the new Highlander main landing gear boost the sitting AOA like the Beringer shocks? If so, and Tony can do it for the price he usually does, I'm in for a new set.

Thanks, again!
Bruce

[TD1]

Curious as to the weight of the Beringer gear to the Just HD gear with the TK1 shock, or possibly the TK1 new gear? Hard to find a weight on the Beringer gear.

[TD1]

Word is Yee Haw 6 is out of the workshop and at the airport hanger. In what, like 4 months? Wow.

Can't wait for some first flight reports. Hoping for smooth sailing.....

[BucF16]

I used my wife's Facebook to view WWA (Wild West Aircraft"s) FB page. It looks like Steve has flown it in fits and starts over the runway. Amazing short T/O an Ldg!

Bruce

[BucF16]

Ok, now I'm questioning myself! I thought "LATE" last night I saw a video of Steve on FB doing shorts TO&LDGs on Yee Haw 6... Maybe it was an earlier Yee Haw.

Bruce

[SheepdogRD]

You weren't dreaming. Here's the post: https://www.facebook.com/cathyhenry58/p ... nref=story