Willa Harper Meanor

Open-minded Americans🇺🇸🇺🇸 guns and precision shooting; mechanical thinking, active travel enthusiasts, chasing the road and the horizon.

[Eric Welch Ph.D. @EricWelch42]

Wednesday wings quiz. What is this airplane? Bonus points for who made it.

[Frank macdermot @MacdermottDave]

@BrittenNorman Good news,I visited the factory at Bembridge years ago,bought a couple of BN pens! Gave one to the pilot of this:

[JBTheExplorer🏎️ @ExplorerJB]

FedEx Cessna Caravan. #OSH26

[John K @johnk6v92]

Cool moon over Mackinac!

[Britten-Norman @BrittenNorman]

POWER ON!

First UK-built Islander in almost six decades is out of the hangar at Bembridge and into final preparation for ground testing.

[Kenneth Cassel @KennethCassel]

Full moon night shift at RMFG

[Willa Harper Meanor @WHMeanor]

It's trapped, lol🤣🤣

[The Greatest Degeneration @1Aerosavant]

IO 540 OH. Bear with me here, this explanation is a little long, but worth the read. I discovered a problem with the new cylinders after installing a couple. The fuel injector thread insert was not installed correctly. The manufacturer is replacing all 6 cylinders, good on them.
Although doing a Top OH is an option, another door has opened and I'm changing plans. A friend referred me to a full NDT lab. It's local (ish) and is qualified in each form of NDT specified by Lycoming in the OH manual. They have specific experience with Lycoming engines.
FAA classifies an aircraft piston engine overhaul as a minor repair. Technically, any AP can do it. Practically, no normally equipped AP can do it because of the specialized insp. processes and qualifications called out in the OH manual. This usually results in AP's doing IRAN (Insp. repair as necessary) maintenance to the engine. I'm no stranger to engine OH, including aircraft, Porsche and American Muscle. I also understand my limitations, that's where this specialized inspection service fits in.
The IO 540 contains no life limited parts. The path we will follow will result in an engine which has met the requirements of a Major OH. Of course, anything requiring specialized repair still gets sent out. There's no avoiding that. The end product should reflect significant savings versus the conventional SMOH route. $75K for OH of this engine is ballpark. I'm convinced that we can come in under that and have the same level of quality in the finished product.
I intend to Post on it and also summarize the cost. Coming soon, the teardown on the table. @BowTiedCFI @jbransonx @thestinkeye

[F*ghting F*lcon @taiwaneseprick]

The American Air Museum at IWM Duxford is a cathedral to American air power. Right when you walk in, a B-52 asks if you have games on your phone while a Bittburg Eagle mogs your stupid face.

Didn't think I'd be moved by planes I've seen before but this was nuts.

[Cornelius Schmitt @Zellerfella]

What a great day to reindustrialize America!

[Trooper @AirborneJM]

Gulf of America
#RoyalCaribbean

[Plati Daddy @muffgangV2]

This things completely remodeled and repowered for 599. 78 foot

[ＤＡＮ_ＡＮＴＯＮＥＬＬＩ @__el__toro__]

Elegant. Refined. Handcrafted. Gorgeous.

Oh yeah, and it sounds like this:

[Brad Pierce @BradinMotion]

A quick homecoming of sorts, flying 8K into Grand Forks, the birthplace of Cirrus Aircraft’s composite manufacturing facility. This is where the fuselage and wings were built prior to final assembly in Duluth. ✈️

[Ingram Marine Group @ingrammarine1]

Another week, another stunning rainbow pic from the river, and this one's a double!

Taken from the M/V Dennis T. Delaney on the Upper Mississippi River just below Lock 24. Thanks to Pilot Trainee Guy Farnsworth for sending these in.

[Gary Moore @GaryMooreCA]

@zanehengsperger This company in South Carolina refurbishes transformers and they end up new again. Pretty cool. https://t.co/RhJeRun6sT

[Zane Hengsperger @zanehengsperger]

Was a customer to 1 of the remaining American transformer manufacturers today

I needed a transformer in 30 mins and they had one ready. 0.4 miles away

This is the true beauty of American industrial abundance

Without this, we’d be making no metal

Top 3 reindustrialize moments

Their biggest problem was chinese competitor prices and finding talented young technicians

[Crystal Bentley @CrystalEBentley]

Tomorrow we head to the desert to film a helicopter dropping a payload of supplies to earth. A paraglider will then, hopefully, deploy and be guided by an autonomous robot named Gizmo to a target. One day, the payloads will be dropped from space.

So, that's new.

[Stewartmolander @Stewartmolander]

A sailboat anchored in front of the Antioch Marina

[Jordan Bramble @jordanbramble]

We won the race to criticality, but the most important race is the race to commercialization. We’ve always sought to build WITH customers and not simply for them. We've raised $470M of capital in our Series C led by @paradigm and @caffeinatedcap, to invest alongside the U.S. Military to bring this technology to scaled deployment.