Hello, Everyone.
I thought that I should jump in here just for a minute to let everyone know
that I still exist, and even though I have not been posting much at all, I
still read the list daily.
Bob is dead on. The ride I had in the Smith Rebel was super. I continue to
be grateful. I wanted to return the favor to Matt the next morning by giving
him a ride in my Zenith, but the early birds got up way before me and left
for home. I still want to get up to Brodhead in Wisconsin one time before
the cold weather sets in.
The Rebel project sits in the garage waiting for someone to come out and
work on it. I have been spending all summer: Building two decks for the
house: finishing the bathroom in the basement including the 4 foot x 6 foot
ceramic tile shower, build the walls, hanging doors, installing sheetrock,
priming, texturing, running plumbing for the wet bar, ordering cabinets for
the same, planning the end wall to house the big screen TV, and..etc.
I also lost my mother this year in April, and with my brother and I being
co-executors of her estate lots of time went into that. But we have finished
up 98% of what needs to be done there, and only have some small detail to
wrap up.
I hope to finish up this carpentry work so I can become an Rebel Constructor
( not the same as a boa constrictor) in the next month or two. Then I
suppose the questions will start to flow from this key board.
But in the near term, it is back to the house project. I have some suspended
ceiling to hang, and about 100 lineal feet of drywall to seam and finish,
and as they say, Yada, yada, yada.
Tim Hickey
R808
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Patterson" <
beep@sympatico.ca>
To: <
rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: [rebel-builders] Rebel empty weight with Rotax
Hi Keith !
If you'd caught us at Ashland, WI, you could have had a ride
in a real nice hot-rod Rebel ! Tim certainly enjoyed it .... ;-)
The 1800 amphibs are only about 23 lb. heavier than the
1500's ... If you already have them, it'd be worth trying !
There's certainly a good resale market for the 1800's ....
so you can sell them if they do turn out to be too heavy ---
but who knows, maybe the extra flotation might work out
great .... :-)
--
......bobp
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On Friday 19 October 2007 20:07, Keith Leitch wrote:
Jim,
Sounds great!! Kind of what I am looking for as far as performance. I
will be going on amphibs if I can. I already have the Murphy 1800 Amphibs
sitting in my hangar, but will need to get the 1500 if I go with the
Rotax.
It is looking better all the time. I should have flown up and met you
guys
when you came through Theif River Falls,MN. I have yet to even ride in a
Rebel. One of these days maybe I can find someone within a few hundred
miles that'll give me one. Where are you located?
Keith
Jim Cole <
jcole@rangroup.com> wrote:
Hi Keith, I haven't had any experience with a Lycoming but I do have
about 200 hours behind a 912 in both a SportStar and now the Rebel.
I did have a 65 HP Continental in my Chief and a 150 HP Continental in my
old 172.
In any case the Rotax is very quite and smooth as far as I'm concerned.
The
load that I carried on the Ramble was quite substantial and yes every
once
in a while a few more horses might have been nice, but really for the
cost
savings on fuel etc I'm quite pleased. I think eventually I will want a
variable pitch prop when I put it on floats but for now I just stuck with
the old saying - "just get it flying!" I flew with variable pitch props
on
the SportStar and it really helped to get the cruise speed up.
I know I carried lots of extra fuel on the trip but I might try the idea
of
working off of one tank. I will have to experiment, maybe with the idea
of
just leaving a few gallons in reserve on the other tank.
I have noticed that when I have a light fuel load and flying by myself -
it
becomes a Jack Rabbit!
Cheers
Jim
Rebel 333
On 10/17/2007 2:32 PM, "Keith Leitch" wrote:
Jim,
Unfortunately I have already done the 3-bays fuel tank. Is it that much
of a con to using the 44 gallon wings. I understand that there would be
WAY more fuel than a guy needs but other than that is there much
problem?
How do you like the performance with the Rotax?
If you want to mail my home email that is ok im_planecrazy at yahoo dot
com.
Keith
Jim Cole wrote:
Hi Keith, my Rebel came in at 821 empty weight with the 912ULS
installed.
I used the Fife wing tips but do not have the cuffs. I also have the 44
gal tanks and if I was doing it over again I wouldn't go three bays I
would use only two.
Cheers
Jim
Rebel 333
On 10/17/2007 12:58 PM, "Mike Davis" wrote:
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