As there seems to be a bit of a pause in group correspondence I thought I'd raise an idea sparked by a comment in March 2018 from David Frobe re. a possibly of a structure able to provide protection i

Great, congratulations Steve, Like finding an old flame - as pretty as ever! Your spec. looks good, resisted the starter, etc.. Is /will be fun. With the shutdown I have been thinking of bringing mine

Hi Ion, All, After I replied to you I looked up the RAM Mount site - very confusing if visiting for the first time!" I therefore thought to copy the group with this. I looked up the RAM Mount part num

As there was some interest in my original post I subsequently found my spare mounting ball! Still not at my Vari, attached is a picture of the whole assembly annotated with the main dims. Mike T

Ion, Izzy, All, I moved from Biggin over a year ago, too concerned with their exec. jets and ripping up protected woodland AND £50+ (c. $60) landing fees for little guys! The UK, concerned about comme

Ion, Due to the virus situation we can only ground-run engines at the moment. This is changing about now to 'test flights' but I still will not be visiting my field for a week or more. Thus no timely

Hi Joe, I didn't want to obscure or change anything of my existing instrument panel. (And absolutely not the idea of a loose iPad!) Also the alphanumerics of the mini iPad are quite small so that, for

'Canopy release from outside.' By all means you could add that to your Requirements list. At the time I did consider adding it. With my arrangement it just means running a second cable in parallel wit

With my arrangement the cam shape on the latch requires more energy, a hard push on the handle, to release the latch (which additionally had to be pulled back to release.). The cam (and spring) tends

PS, While on the subject of canopy latches etc. While there have been no failures of Burt's (VE) canopy latch spigots, I did not like to have screws in bending mode at the base of their threads. My sp

Hi Mike, My handle pivot runs in a plain bearing floxed into the longeron. See first photo. It is (unnecessarily) accessed via the hole just visible top left in the, last, outside fuselage shot. The l

Ron makes some good points. A Requirement is needed before designing anything. For the Vari Eze /Long Eze canopy latch/lock system. An example that is probably incomplete/can be improved:- Latch Secur