Working on installing the windshield and skylight. The windshield is a C172 windshield for LP Aero and has to be trimmed to fit. Pretty nerve racking job.


Finished making all the control cables. Nice to see things moving.


Fuel lines are done and I hope to flush the system this week, do some flow testing and maybe early next week we can see if this engine will run.

Some progress made. Our hangar is dark so it’s difficult to get any kind of decent picture and I know that’s really all we care about here[emoji16]

The interior is getting close. Yeah, it’s cheesy knockoff of Bigrenna.[emoji57] But it’s light, provides some insulation and should prevent the kids from poking a hole through the fabric.



Wish I hadn’t been so messy with the Stewart’s glue. I haven’t figured out how I’m going to clean that up so it looks better.

whee wrote:Wish I hadn’t been so messy with the Stewart’s glue. I haven’t figured out how I’m going to clean that up so it looks better.

Jon, take a sanding disc cleaning block and use it like a big eraser on the glue. It'll come off, but not easy.
John

hardtailjohn wrote:

whee wrote:Wish I hadn’t been so messy with the Stewart’s glue. I haven’t figured out how I’m going to clean that up so it looks better.

Jon, take a sanding disc cleaning block and use it like a big eraser on the glue. It'll come off, but not easy.
John

That. Or a big white eraser works too. Or just your finger, but that's good for causing lots of blisters...

Thanks for the ideas. I've tried my finger and a big eraser but neither worked. I think its because the roughness of the paint on the tubes. I'll give the sand paper cleaning disk a try.

whee wrote:

maules.com wrote:Sounds like that will be a rather noisy prop at the takeoff rpm of that engine. Might achieve more actual performance "thrust" with a shorter prop I would guess.

My noise footprint is high on the consideration list. We will be pull-testing this prop and a 82” prop to compare. Based on conversations with a guy in AK that has done field approvals for 82-86” versions of this prop on Maules I figure we’ll end up cutting this one down to 84”.

Even if left at 88” it won’t be as loud as a C185 with a long prop...but that’s not saying much[emoji57]

Yesterday morning it was 18F both inside the hangar and outside. A friend stopped by before going flying in his C180 which has a 88" prop. When he took off a few minutes later the noise literally rattled the siding on our hangar

I see no issue at all, proceed making sweet noise

Wish I could say that today went smoothly but it didn't. However, we did accomplish the desired task. Engine first start and initial runs were accomplished!

Sounds good Whee! Congrats!!

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Nice job... is your Bearhawk the second one to use the IO360 continental?

Great news! Sounds great, too!!

Way to go, Idaho!

Thanks guys!

m_moyle wrote:Nice job... is your Bearhawk the second one to use the IO360 continental?

I think it is the 3rd. First was in Brazil quite a long time ago. Second is in Canada and started flying this past summer. None of us knew about the others till after we had started installing the engine.

Awesome! Congrats on another major milestone!

whee wrote:Wish I could say that today went smoothly but it didn't. However, we did accomplish the desired task. Engine first start and initial runs were accomplished!

Congrats, Whee! That's awesome!

Seemed pretty smooth from the short video you posted. Guessing there was, like, 29 hours of prep leading up to that??

Haha. Very funny Mike

Here is the actual very first start. I have some things to investigate but I'm pretty happy with how it ran.

That's some sweet sounding pilot music

Congratulations! Sounds great!
What prop did you go with?

Bagarre wrote:Congratulations! Sounds great!
What prop did you go with?

We are using a McCauley C203. This one is a 88” C180 prop and is still setup for an O470. We need to determine the current max rpm so the prop shop can determine how much adjustment the fine pitch stops need.