[snip] ..Wil always had time to answer my stupid questions about how to configure one of his "Schuemann boxes" for odd situations. His guides for leak checking glider pneumatic plumbing systems and tuning varios as well as the syringes and connectorsneeded remain in my toolkit today.
Chip BeardenThanks, Chip, for these remembrances. A long time ago I was looking at a Ka6E whose owner thought its having a "Schuemann Box" was a clincher selling point. "Pure magic". As I recall this one appeared to be sealed so the innards were inaccessible for
JB
needed remain in my toolkit today.[snip] ..Wil always had time to answer my stupid questions about how to configure one of his "Schuemann boxes" for odd situations. His guides for leak checking glider pneumatic plumbing systems and tuning varios as well as the syringes and connectors
some reason. Just what was in that box and was it fine-tunable at all? If anyone doubts his influence, just go to the Soaring Mag site, open one of the archived issues from say any month in 1983 and run a "find Schuemann" search. Amazing the number ofChip BeardenThanks, Chip, for these remembrances. A long time ago I was looking at a Ka6E whose owner thought its having a "Schuemann Box" was a clincher selling point. "Pure magic". As I recall this one appeared to be sealed so the innards were inaccessible for
JB
Phyllis Dee
On Sunday, April 10, 2022 at 7:03:09 PM UTC-4, phlyi...@gmail.com wrote:connectors needed remain in my toolkit today.
[snip] ..Wil always had time to answer my stupid questions about how to configure one of his "Schuemann boxes" for odd situations. His guides for leak checking glider pneumatic plumbing systems and tuning varios as well as the syringes and
some reason. Just what was in that box and was it fine-tunable at all? If anyone doubts his influence, just go to the Soaring Mag site, open one of the archived issues from say any month in 1983 and run a "find Schuemann" search. Amazing the number ofChip BeardenThanks, Chip, for these remembrances. A long time ago I was looking at a Ka6E whose owner thought its having a "Schuemann Box" was a clincher selling point. "Pure magic". As I recall this one appeared to be sealed so the innards were inaccessible for
JB
actually managed to find a local, very elderly clock maker who took on the repairs as a project. It worked, but soon after the newer electronic gizmos including the ubiquitous M-Nav began to take over. Tony religiously hung on to the Schueman Box untilPhyllis DeeMany older East Coast pilots will remember Tony (P4) Benson. He had a Schuemann Box in his ASW-20. In his words, it was "designed by a frustrated Swiss cuckoo clock maker, but it was magic to behold in the air." When it was giving him trouble, he
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