I have a problem. My RV4 only fits in my hangar
if I insert it straight in oriented at 45 degrees.
Getting quart into a pint pot.

Otherwise the wing span is too long to go straight
in. Dollies under the wheels work but you must jack
up the airplane some how to get it on the dollies.

Then I discovered the wheel pants cover so much of
the wheel that the dollies will not stay under the
wheels when moving the plane around. It is real easy for
them to kick out from under the wheels. The pants also
make it near impossible to jack it up in the first place.

I finally came to the conclusions I need a CC engine
host to get the plane in and out quickly. Harbor
Fright have them for relatively no real money.
Just U.S. dollars :)

Since it must be precisely done I put channel
rails on the floor to guide the CC engine hoist.

Next problem was how to find a hard point
on top of the airplane for the CC engine hoist to grab
when the cowl is on.

It is too time consuming to take the top
of the cowl off every time I move the plane in or
out of the hanger.

What I came up with is a bolted on block of
aluminum to Tracy PSRU adapter plate that
extends up to just inside the top cowl skin.
Screwed into that block will be a forged tie
down ring from the Vans catalog. It screws in and out
through a small hole in the top cowl skin.  I'll keep it in
the airplane when not needed.

The picture shows just a 3/8" hole in the PSRU adapter
plate with a swivel fitting and clevis right at the moment.
No block yet.

An unintended advantage is it is real easy to rock
the wings up and down and throughly mix the two cycle oil
with the fuel :)


Paul Lamar

--
David Leonard

Turbo Rotary RV-6 N4VY
http://N4VY.RotaryRoster.net
http://RotaryRoster.net


-- Or,

Sell the 182 and have $$$ in pocket while making plenty of cheap
room in the
hangar.  Robin can learn to fly in the RV4 after just a few hours in a
rented plane.

David


How? There are no rudder pedals, throttle, flaps handles or
instruments
in the  back seat for the instructor :) The instructor would
be a mere passenger in the crash :)

Nobody is buying any goods right at the moment. We are all waiting
to see
if the US is going to become the USSR  :) Gold is now $1600 dollars
per ounce.

Paul Lamar



Paul,

I thought you were saying that you solved the issue with your engine
hoist?  If you are still interested in entertaining more ideas, I saw
these teflon coated pads that can be slipped under car wheels or
furniture to make them easy to slide across CARPET.  But if carpet
is what is required, you could map the pathway the main gear make
across the floor, glue down carpet squares, and use those babies
to just sliiiiide you airplane in.

Gene Kahn

That might work if you had some way of locking the brakes.

Paul Lamar

Perhaps you could modify the pads by fabricating 'sleeves' that fit
around the pads, and which extend upwards, while still leaving a
'cut-out' [that lets you easily insert them under the wheels] but
which otherwise lets you engage the pads with a custom made
[wooden?] Y-shaped pusher handle that you can use to push on
the sleeve extenders to push both the pads at the same time,
whether or not you can lock the brakes...similar idea to the t-handle
that engages the nose gear normally.

Gene Kahn

I spent a lot of money on the rails and the engine hoist
so I'll stick with this system. I need to keep the hoist scheme
anyway to stick anything under the wheels.

Paul Lamar