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Good Morning,
I need some advice on cabin heat.  Per the picture below a gentleman made a diverter that strapped to the muffler.  My question is if it would be okay to welding one together and weld it to the muffler or should I should strap it to muffler.  Pros and cons please.  The only reason I would weld is to keep vibration from wearing a hole in muffler where the diverter touches and to seal off any cracks where the diverter touches muffler.  What's your thoughts?
 

I finished all the modifications to mount a t3 tailwheel.  Added some reinforcing while I was at it .  This summer I was thinking about how much force is on the rudder cables to stop the plane short.  Decided to reinforce the rudder attach point and the brake peddle attach point just for piece of mind  
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Good Afternoon,
I am thinking of buying the bubble doors for my Avid C model and am wondering if the doors are the same as the Mark IV doors.
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I love gravel bar landings on the Susitna.  Makes for a practice paradise. 
 

Tried my luck water skipping on the Susitna River.  First touch down was like tires skidding on pavement.  Once the tires get rolling its a piece of cake.
 

I don't know if you realize but the current trend in California to do away with all fossil fuels by 2045 will completely destroy private aviation.  This will spread across the U.S.  There is no way to produce an electric plane that has enough batteries to power it for 2 hours and light enough to haul two people and cargo unless of course you build it with balsa wood and fly only on zero wind days.  If we continue to follow U.N. trends the U.S. will be completely annihilated along with all the vehicles.  The state of California is following the false science of the U.N. that claims CO2 is causing global warming.  CO2 makes up .0004 percent of the atmosphere along with hundreds of other naturally occurring gases.  Climate change is happening but climate change has always happened.  They are suggesting that glaciers are melting because of CO2.  This is false as well.  Underneath the Swiss Alps glaciers are entire forests.  Underneath the Mendenhall glacier in Alaska are trees with roots still in the ground.  This means the glaciers were not there in the past when cars did not even exist.  Also trees need CO2 to survive.  .0004 percent of CO2 is very low and it was much higher in the past before the industrialized revolution.  Dozens of U.N. scientists have quit because they see the falsehood of the science that is purely a political agenda to suck the U.S. into a new world order.  The only way to stop this progressive movement is at the ballot box.  The U.N. has ingeniously integrated immigration and climate change into the left philosophy to secure their path forward.  If you don't stop it at the ballot box we will wake up one day and private aviation will be over. That is not far fetched.  Most of the population could care less because they don't have a plane but our vote does count.
So the main point of all my rhetoric is to suggest that many voters in our country are out of balance with false information.  We need to bring balance back to our states at the ballot box.  Remember that November is a referendum against Trump.  He may be an idiot speaker but His policies are pro freedom and Anti-globalists. 
Please watch the attached link regarding climate change.
 

Howdy.  Curious how the Avid Flyers handle water skimming.  Because of the short fuselage I worry about to much drag when the tire touches the water.  Have any of you attempted it?  What speed, flap config, etc did you use?  How did the plane feel when you first touched the water?
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