No, haven't bought a time machine. Haven't been logging over past month or so because I got a new toy: a Little Machine Shop Mini-lathe. Forty hours is the (conservative) estimate for how long I've been designing and building an unheated pitot/AOA tube. modeled from the Dynon probe and discussions on VAF stating that the angle between pitot and AOA was about 60 deg.
Added 10 Sep 2011: Adding pictures of the pitot tube. Haven't been working on the plane most of the summer due to work busy-ness--taking some time off!
Image 1 has the tube taped up to fill in the back lower corner of the pitot tube where it meets the stub of streamlined tubing. Also cut a piece of rigid styrofoam and epoxied to the front upper corner to form a fairing. A layer of JB-Weld is curing and will be shaped and sanded smooth.
Image 2: the business end, turned from 6061 round bar stock.
Image 3: top of the mast (it has been primed). Welding the tube to the 0.032 6061 plate was tricky for Karl, but after a few trial runs and a jig to draw excess heat away, it came out great.
