@@PeteZoot I just went to see it yesterday. Beautiful plane and no corrosion! Is there any way I can contact you in private so you can help me? Thank you😁
@@trevordance3453 We have build an Europa. Started 1997 and have just finished the test-flight. Awaiting final certification during the next couple of months. Now we have a well build Europa, but unfortunately it's almost worthless. No factory back-up. Spare parts very hard to reach. The building cost was the same as for an RV-7, but the marked price is maybe 25% of an RV. But I enjoy flying it 🙂
@@johnkirkegaard2883 That is all that matters, you enjoy it ! have flown an RVs and it was like flying a coca-cola can very thin and "tinny". However, the design makes wiring really easy compared with the Europa - I have just finished my panel wiring and to fix the bugs in the wiring, my arms became scratched all over, trying to work through the small space available.. I hope to by flying next year...
yip - cuz it has a wing rigging discrepency, thus a heavy wing, and HB's will not come out of a spin. So I bought it for initial flight testing..... and just keep wearing it.
@@PeteZoot Pete that looks like so much fun. Some questions: -Performance; cruising speed 97 TAS? Rate of climb? Range? -Can you fly with the canopy off? -I'm no longer current but was a low time Cessna 152/172 pilot. I think I've seen that the Hummelbird has both tailwheel and nose wheel configurations. In the nosewheel would it be difficult to fly for a C152 pilot?
@@shevetlevi2821 ya about right…100mphish rate of climb= barely lol, range 300miles +1/2hr reserve. Canopy never tried it. Noeswheel, no, tailwheel ya, its very lively on the ground. Cockpit is smaaaaaall. 170lbs 5’8” max unless modded like mine for me at 6’
I went to Oshkosh this year specifically to see the Hummel, an H5 was there but had departed so I didn't see it. Still, I was impressed with the Part 103 version.
Most are! Including me, as i had to blow the bottom out of the bottom for more head and leg room. At 18” wide, it os a snug fit. No map unfolding in this one! :)
Nice video, but I wonder, with air and ground comm so critical to flight safety, why is everyone talking so fast (rather mumbling and slurirng so fast) and with the mic shoved half way down the throat? Nothing at all personal, just highlighting an aviation issue. I can not learn proper comm procedure and comply with instructions that cannot be understood. Anyone else?
Fair point….. thoughts: swallowed is due to the extremely noisy cockpits and noise cancelling mics, and if someone doesn’t understand, they will simply broadcast “say again” :) We are typically all locals, so the routines are repeated :). Oh, and when it gets busy, drawn out calls are a hazard as well.
Thank you soo much for the video; flew the entire trip with you by proxy. Received Pvt Cert. 1996, flew for 1 year and lost medical. Now 67 YOA. You have sparked my passion for Aviation. Wife getting nervous! Love that Hummelbird!
great to hear - it was originally put up for my late father for that express purpose! :-) Sorry to hear of your med, it's what all us pilots are in fear of. Gotta grab the airborne fun while we can! The HB is more fun than a barrel full of monkeys! I miss it after putting 550hrs on it, as it is currently hanging from the hangar beam until II can get around to (properly this time) welding up a new case for the engine which has a cracked main oil gallery as the original builder had designed the top right engine mount stud into the gallery :-( I just need life to stop throwing up road blocks.
Tested to 10,000 feet, should still climb past 13,000 feet, without turbo. With a turbo 914, 18,000feet is possible. I cruise at 150mph. Do not exceed speed is 200mph. There are no speed limits in the sky :)
Hey Pete do u have a heater in ur plane so for instance you fly in cold air let’s say ground temperature is -10c wat would the temperature of 5,000 feet would be?
Lol which part of Ottawa are you living in im in barrhaven and can you explain would your cellular work about 4000 feet can you see BELL OR ROGERS OR TELUS providers on ur phone when ur in sky?
Thx, i actually made it for my late father so he could “fly along with me”. As for the cockpit, snug as a bug in a rug….i could doze off if it weren’t so loud lol.
Thanks, I enjoyed the video but I had to look up where Bancroft was - Canada. Some of the call signs sounded like GGxx when I thought UK? Could I ask for next time you show some of the other aircraft on the ground as well, the others that had flown in? I like the Hummel btw and did consider building my own but it's not currently UK approved.
Ya, here in canuckstan we don’t verbalize the C :) I”ll keep that in mind next time. Thx! Not surprised , the HB has a very ineffective tail when slow.
