Dave

I followed your troubles on other forums and tried just about everything as you did. Found the problem and got it fixed. Now fine tuning. I will also do the light weight flywheel soon with rebalancing. So far so good though. Amazing what a proper crank flange will do. I’m at 1030lbs empty but...

From my work on Pitts I’ve fround the combination pitot static tubes don’t do well giving acturate indications. The culprit is the static source. With a Pitts you crack open the alternate static source and the indicated speed comes really close to what it should do. On the Laser’s pitot static tube...

Hi

Your cowling looks great!

I've just started looking at the cowl that i have but have spotted a few issues.

The cowling is not symmetrical at all. Most noticeable at the firewall end where one of the cheeks protrudes further than than the other.

The engine mounting has the 1.5 degree...

Nice looking Laser you have there!
It think I'm seeing 2 mods: Low wing and Whitman rod landing gear.
To my thinking, the Laser is more of a concept than a fixed aircraft design. No two are exactly the same.
They started as a mod to the Stephen's Akro? and have moved on in the form of Extra,...

If you overlay profiles of the 0012 and the 21012 you will not see much difference. We bought a wing kit with ribs already cut but modified them by shaving a couple of mm (from memory that's all it was) off to give us a symmetrical wing although not exactly a 0012 (also note that near the root the...

I'm pretty sure it's because I tried to learn to weld with a welder that had lift start and had a thumb wheel for amp control instead of HF start and a foot pedal. It made controlling the arc very difficult and made it nearly impossible to get the right amperage for the thin tail ribs

Very nice, thanks for this. This will certainly help someone out there. Also it will help me as we are discussing canopy options on my build.

Thanks Dave
The cowlings/canopy/instrument panel I have are smaller, basically inside the fuselage longerons and I think I will keep them as they are now otherwise there are too many things to change
Ciao
Alberto

There is a Laser 200 low wing out there flying and I've heard of low wing 2300 under construction.

Dave

Excellent
Congrats and post more videos

Alberto

Hi
I started the restoration of a Stephen Akro and I plan to cover the wing with a bidirectional cloth of fiberglass in order to increase the stiffness particularly in torsion (you know the flutter problem of the Akro)
I didn't perform any assessment yet but according to a friend of mine who did...

It might make a difference if you operate off of hard surface or grass.

My Laser went from hard surface to sandy grass. I felt the < 4 tailwheel on the Haigh would be more of a plow on our runway.
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I didn't like the locking tailwheel, I prefer a steerable...

I've seen Lasers with different main landing gear lengths. Ours had tall gear, one I flew a little while back was much shallower deck angle.

The longer gear for the S-2A was to provide ground clearance for the aileron spades under the lower wing. My S-2A was an earlier SN to which the previous...

Yes you are.... I have to drive 100 km from my house to stay away from Madrid TMA. I laught when I ear poeple complaining of the 30 nm radius class B restrictions in USA and look at my regional and see that basically all the way to 50 nm only 1000' agl is allowed and no vfr inside 10 nm... By the...