Smoke planning – Part 2

Got up to a very windy hangar today .. force 8 outside .. and the time to offer up the oil tank to the front seat

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Then .. try it with stick full back

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Then to offer up the injectors .. these are high quality parts with all the fittings provided by Smokin Airplanes …

Making sure that the braided oil lines are placed to offer the line of least resistance and sit nicely against the exhausts

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Running PTFE tape around the threads

Good chance to have a look around the engine after the last 15 hours or so .

Paul from TLAC has kindly provided some useful input figures that I didn’t have for this MOD .. to aid calculating the ‘G’ factors in respect of ‘crash load’ I need the following

Forward and Rearward load = x 9

Vertical up and down load = x 6

Side to side load = x 4.5

So .. with a tank and pump combined weigh of 19.7kg

Forward = 19.7 x 9 = 177.3

Vertical = 19.7 x 6 = 118.2

Side = 19.7 x 4.5 = 88.65