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Casa 1.131 "Jungmann" F-AZPB for sale in France |
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Written by Henri Payre
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 |
Bücker CASA 1 131 E F-AZPB was built in 1995, has been carefully maintained and flown regularly.
French collectible CofA valid till 08/2012.
Airframe 360 hours since new. Ground power connector.
Engine ENMA Tigre G IV B2, 20 SMOH by Moto Bende (EASA Form 1 available), magnesium engine housing. Slick magnetos, CAT carburettor, starter motor overhauled.
Aerobatic and climb propeller (cruise 165 km/h, 100 mph) maintained and overhauled by Helivalex.
New shoulder harnesses. Strong parachutes maintained by Beda in Avignon.
Sold with lots of spare parts, special wrenches and tool kit, spare tires, oil supply,and comprehensive Spanish and French documentation. It also has an exhaustive address book with all useful contacts for the maintenance of this wonderful airplane.
Price : 110.000 €
Contact :
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Here is a video of the airplane as seen in an airshow in may 2010 :
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdrrbl_entre-quatre-aile-bucker-jungmann-a_sport
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Jungmeister control stick |
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Written by Administrator
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Monday, 26 July 2010 |
Tom Muller (
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) is looking for a control stick for a Jungmeister and would appreciate leads from anyone who might know of one for sale.
Tom would also like to find an original "rear view" mirror to moount on the cabane strut of his Jungmann.
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Written by Administrator
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Friday, 23 July 2010 |
Inspired by our recent trip to visit Albert and Elisabeth Zeller (which I will write about soon) I have been putting in a lot of time on the Jungmann. I had an idea about painting the wings: I emailed a local car paint distributor (Auto Body Supply of Columbus) and asked if I might put a note on thier notice board to ask if anyone in the area had a paint booth I could rent.
Within a couple of days, the manager emailed back to say his brother and his father were both pilots and that I would be welcome to use the paint booth in their training center. It had everything I needed. A huge compressor, a down-draft filtration system, a clean storage area and more. - Thank you Auto Body Supply 
Last week I got up very early for several days and with the help of my friend Joe Foley, went to the paint shop and painted before my working day began.
I am really pleased with the results:
I used one brushed coat and one sprayed coat of PolyBrush, one coat of PolySpray, one coat of PolyTone Insignia white (with UV additive) and one coat of Ranthane AN Orange Yellow. Deliberately flaunting the instructions, I applied the Ranthane within
20 minute of spraying the underlying PolyTone. This reduced the gloss
significantly and achieved exactly the appearance I was loooking for.
This is the lightest system I know of that provides adequate coverage. -
I weighed the wings after I painted them. Each bottom wing weighs 33
lbs and each aileron 5 lbs for a total of 38 lbs per wing. I thought I read that they were supposed to weigh 25 lbs, but I don't
think I could have added 50% in restoring them. I was pretty careful.
Our bathroom scales may not be too accurate though.
The red flags were painted in Tennessee Red and carefully duplicated from the data Larry Ernewein provided.
I like Ranthane paint a lot. It is less expensive than Aerothane (because when you buy a gallon, you get a gallon, not "enough to make a gallon of thinned, catalyzed paint" which is the case with Aerothane) It is also much easier to spray than Aerothane, which is prone to running (at least it is if you are as bad a painter as me). The coverage is amazing too. Believe it or not, I used only 1.3 gallons for the whole aircraft.
Update: I was able to weigh the entire aircraft for the first time this evening. It weighed 898 lbs (407 Kg), including a couple of gallons of fuel, but not including the flying and landing wires. I am so pleased all my weight savaing work resulted in such a low figure. Not bad for a CASA 2000 series Jungmann with a metalized belly, Cleveland wheels, a starter, radio and 17 AH, 28v Battery. I hope I don't have to add any weight to get the CG right!
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 29 June 2010 |
Very sadly, the pilot of the beautiful Jungmann G-JUNG died after an unexplained engine failure and subsequent collision with a telegraph line in Dorsetshire, England. His passenger was severly injured in the May 2009 accident.
The complete accident report has just been published and can be reviewed by clicking here. It makes very interesting reading. It would appear that the engine and its accessories were were in quite poor condition and may have shown signs of this before the accident flight.
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 29 June 2010 |
For sale: 1953 CASA 1.131 Jungmann
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Ceconite/ butyrate dope 1981
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Airframe: TTSN = 1030; SMOH = 810
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Engine Tigre G-IVB, TTSN = 910; SMOH = 450
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Prop Wooden Muhlbauer, TTSN = 910
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Annual due OCT. 1st
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No damage history
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Cleveland wheels & brakes
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Same owner past 26 years; flown regularly
Contact Ernest Streifthau
e-mail:
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937-855-6885
Germantown [Dayton] Ohio
$ 70,000
Ernie Streifthau
There are many pictures of Ernie's Jungmann on this website. All of the pictures in the Reference Pictures album named DSFC-something.
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Two buckers on barnstormers.com |
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 29 June 2010 |
BUCKER BU133R •
$75,000 • FOR SALE •
Professionally built by Jim Swick, Plano, Texas. Only 62 hrs TT eng and
airframe. M14P engine, 360HP, 5000 to 6000 ft per min climb. Built from
legendary Frank Price plans, 2 place, 32 gal main tank, 16 gal cross
country tank, 16 gal smoke, complete inverted fuel and oil system, KT 76
transponder, "will do performance of a quarter of a million dollar
airplane for under $100,000".
• Contact Greg
S. Fergus, Friend of Owner - located Frisco, TX USA
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BU 131 BUCKER JUNGMANN
• AVAILABLE FOR SALE •
1989 Replica, manufactured by Janusz Karasiewicz Historical Aircraft
Service of Poland, Serial Number 104, 150 Hours Total Time, 15 Hours on
140 HP full aerobatic Lom M332AK Engine, Hoffman Prop, Special
Experimental Catagory Certification, located in Poland, includes packing
for ocean freight to any location, $95,000.
• Contact Michael
Shults - EASTERN
SHORE HELICOPTERS, INC, Friend of Owner - located Labelle, FL USA
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863-612-1388 .
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Written by Administrator
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Friday, 25 June 2010 |
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The hotel internet connection is very slow so I will have to wait until next week to post the rest of the pictures, but here are a couple of teasers:
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 10 June 2010 |
Today is step daughter Lara's 19th birthday. What better way to celebrate than this ?
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Stearman comes to grief at Washingto DC National airport |
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 08 June 2010 |
The media are reporting that while making an IMAX film for the National Air and Space museum, a Stearman nosed over and closed the runway at Washington National airport (DCA) today. Avweb Link .
The moment I saw the video, I wondered if the author of this article from "Plane and Pilot" magazine had anything to do with it.
It is no joke, this letter was actually published, Click here to see page one , and here for page two .
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 08 June 2010 |
I may have said so before, but one of the fun things about reaching the completion stage of a project is counting the "lasts." I have already weleded the last weld, wired the last wire, stiched the last rib and so on.
Last week I painted the last Polyfiber product, white Polytone to form a base for the yellow Ranthane to come. It got up early when the air was still and the bugs were still sleeping so that I could use nature's paint booth. I will miss the sweet smell of PolySomething in the mornings
I am in the process of masking for the swiss markings, then its off to the auto paint store where they have kindly said I can use their paint booth for the final coats.
 
The good news is that i will not be able to do that for three more weeks. Why good news? Because we are off to Switzerlad for two weeks where we will be taking in the scenery and visiting some Bucker friends along the way. I expect to return inspired and rested, ready for the final push towards that first flight. (In my dreams at least)
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Arayan Lias' Jungmann flies again |
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Written by Administrator
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Friday, 04 June 2010 |
It is wonderful to see Arayan Lias' Jungmann back in the air again. D-ELEV was restored some time ago but had a number of non-Bucker components installed. Aeronca style landing gear, a Maule tailwheel etc.
Now, after several months at the Barnstormer's Workshop at Peach State airport in Georgia, the Bucker has new Joe Krybis gear, and many other improvement. Congratulations Arayan!
Brian Karli in the cockpit, and Arayan Lias ready for a test flight
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New High Def Jungmann Movies |
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 01 June 2010 |
Thanks to plane classics in Poland for sending these links to some spectacular Jungmann videos:
Thank you!
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Written by John Hopkins
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Tuesday, 01 June 2010 |
Guys,
Just a quick heads up on progress with production of new 150 hp Tigre piston sets. I have the first production set but have not had the time to fit them yet with work and all the other rectification work. Photos attached of the complete set.
They are machined from solid RR2618 (Rolls Royce aircraft spec alloy) bar which is used in almost all aircraft piston manufacture here now from Merlin to Genet. Machining from solid is far safer than casting or forging, its never going to break up in flight. They are as close a copy of the pistons made for the Spanish in 1971 by Borgo pistons which were forged as opposed to the earlier pistons made in late 40s/early 50s also by Borgo which were cast.
By 1971 they had deleted the undercut under the gudgeon pin bosses which is dissapproved of in modern thinking as there is prevalence to cracks here with undercuts. The interior pocket design is as close as possible to the original as maching from solid will allow. They weigh the same as the originals.The gudgeon pins, washers, circlips and compression rings are exact copies of the original Spanish, Joe Rosenberg lent some unused examples for copying.
The oil control ring is modified though the groove in the piston is the same size as the original. It is a conformal sprung ring ie without its spring it would hide in the groove and have no effect, this means the effect is variable by simply modifying the length of the spring. There is alot of experience with using sprung oil control rings in Gipsy Major engines and experience has shown that too harsh a spring can cause excessive bore wear.
The prototypes have been set by the manufacturers FJ Engineering to give what they think will be optimum oil control with minimal wear but this can be adjusted depending on experience. A conformal sprung ring will apparently accommodate uneven variations in the bore most effectively which should be useful in older engines.
Experience with Gipsy Majors has shown that when modern oil control rings are fitted to standard pistons, due to the reduced oil quantity reaching the compression rings there is less impact absorption by the oil film of the ring movement against the ring groove wall and therefore the grooves get worn oversize very quickly. The pistons were made originally with very wide ring grooves even for an air cooled engine so that the rings would remain highly mobile to break out the carbon formation caused by the excessive amounts of oil reaching the compression rings (and your combustion chamber). For this reason the compression ring grooves have been very slightly reduced in width in the new pistons by betweem 0.10 to 0.07 of a mm to compensate. A standard original oil ring could be fitted but the compression ring grooves would need to be opened out again.
The other mod is a small waist around the piston land which is a way to try and avoid damage to the land due to lead build up in the combustion chamber. This should cause the lead deposits to be less compacted by the piston action and more able to break off. The loss of material is compensated for by a 1mm increase in the height of the crown. It would be easy to delete this from the CNC program if it does not work but its worth a try on the prototype.
The whole set has been made by FJ Engineering (http://www.fj-engineering.co.uk ) who have alot of experience with all sorts of piston manufacture and the company has its origins with Wellworthy Engineering who were the manufacturers for numerous aircraft pistons including the DH Gipsy Major etc. Some of the staff date from the Wellworthy days and so have first hand experience of aircraft work. They have made pistons for several aircraft over the last few years including Gipsy, Renault, Cirrus Bombardier, Genet, Merlin and are currently making ring sets for the Centaurus engines in the Royal Navy Historic Flight Sea Furies. They make pistons for many classic and vintage car clubs and also for various military engines in armoured cars etc which have worn out their entire spares stock in the dust of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Unfortunately this does mean that nothing happens quickly as they are always 'up to here' with the latest order. The Tigre pistons are machined from solid on CNC and the finished on a piston lathe to give them the beer barrel shape and round crown/oval skirt which is impossible to do any other way (piston lathes are somewhat rare in ther UK as are the lathe cams to go with it).
The plans have been approved by the UK Light Aviation Association, the airworthiness authority for UK registered Jungmanns. Once I have rebuilt my engine I wiil need to do a test flying program of about 15 hours before they are fully approved by the LAA, subject to any problems and mods/demods that become necessary.
There have been 2 Jungmann engine failures in Europe in the last few months due to a gudgeon pin circlip coming adrift complete with its washer. The new circlips are already therefore finding a home as the fit of the originals is often poor due to them having been used so many times.
Plans are also in hand to make a modern copy of the original split duct Tigre induction manifold which we think will benefit Ellison TBI fitted aircraft alongside the existing plenum chamber mod (photo of orginal attached)
Regards
John Hopkins G-BWHP (S4-A-07)
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Written by Administrator
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Saturday, 29 May 2010 |
The first Bu & BBQ to be held at Mountain Airpark in Georgia was held during a spell of very changeable weather! After weeks of looking forward to the event, a pressing project at work made it difficult for me to attend, but in the end, the weather made it impossible. My route of flight looked like this on the day.
Happily, a lot of people were able to make it, and by the looks of it they had a very good time indeed.
You will find many more spectcular pictures of the fly-in in a new album. Click here or on the picture above. (Or just visit the Gallery section) Thank you to everyone who took pictures and sent them to me for the website.
John LaBarre has posed some more pictures in hte Gallery. Please look in John's album .
Thanks John!
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Written by Administrator
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Wednesday, 19 May 2010 |
Thanks to Gordon Vlement for these pictures from the Joe Nalls radio controlled model fly-in, held recently at the Tripple Tree Aerodrome in South Carolina.
Zak Clement is seen here with Matt Chapman's newly completed Jungmann, and an even larger Jungmeister.
Thanks for the picture Gordon and Zak.
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Written by Administrator
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Monday, 17 May 2010 |
This year there will be an even bigger reason to visit the Oshkosh/Airventure fly-in that usual: David Martin will be performing in the airshow in his Bitz/Siemens Jungmeister!
David flying anything is a priviledge to watch, a Jungmeister flown by anyone is a joy to behold, but David Martin AND the Jungmeister together!!!!! That will be quite something. One way or another, you need to be there.
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2010 Bucker BBQ and fly-in |
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Written by Administrator
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Monday, 10 May 2010 |
The fly in is less than two weeks away!
Please check the dedicated web page by clicking Bu & BBQ 2010 link in the main menu top left of this page.
See you there?
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