The Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency (CAFE) Foundation has been selected by NASA to conduct an annual flight competition – The Personal Air Vehicle (PAV) Centennial Challenge. This $250,000 technology prize competition is a 5-part flight contest, designed to bring forth a new class of quiet, efficient, environmentally friendly and easy-to-operate personal air vehicles that will extend convenient air travel to a greatly expanded segment of the American public. The 2007 PAV Challenge will be staged August 4 — August 11 at the CAFE Flight Test Center at Sonoma County’s Charles M. Schulz Airport.

Duration : 0:1:47

Read the rest of this entry »

http://www.pedatarvcenter.com — A walk through on how to fix your motorhome refrigerator. Learn what to look for when fixing your RV refrigerator along with simple steps to keep your RV out of the dealership repair bays. A few simple do it your self repairs that just might save you thousands.

What you want to look for is a small compartment that looks like a vent on the outside of the unit. Turn the screws and the door comes off and you will be able to see the back side of your refrigerator. Common problems with your refrigerator are improper cooling. This is caused by a “Dirty Burner embly”. Looks like a small metal box usually to the bottom right hand corner. Before you start repairing on this you need to be sure that the power is unplugged, that there’s no 12 volt power and that the gas is unplugged. The gas can be turned off by a knob on the bottom left hand side, turn it so that it’s up and down. Next thing you want to do is go back to the Burner and take out the screw and slide the box out. The burner is located all the way to the back. What happens is that when it burns rust fills up inside the fluid, and it falls down on top of the burner embly. Even though it is lit and still produces heat, it’s not enough heat to keep the cooling unit cooling all the way it needs to be. So what you need to do is take some canned air and blow out all the dust and rust in that compartment, tap on the compartment above a few times to get all the excess out as well. Keep repeating that until you see it is all out. Then you can re-assemble the compartment by sliding the cover back up and screw it back on, plug it back in and turn your gas back on, turn on your 12 volt and then test. You can check the flame by turning the knob on the compartment and looking in the little hole to see if it is on. The most important problem that can occur is nothing that you can do to fix or maintain it yourself. The black tubes are filled with ammonia, if you start to smell ammonia or see yellow seepage around the tubes, you must disconnect power and turn off the gas immediately! This is a very- very high fire hazard and has been occurring a lot recently which has caused a lot of recalls on refrigerators. You can call and check with the serial number located on the back of the chlorine unit to see if your refrigerator is under that recall. http://www.pedatarvcenter.com

Don’t forget to watch all the other RV maintenance videos in this series on Youtube. http://www.pedatarvcenter.com

Duration : 0:5:1

Read the rest of this entry »

The complete press conference. Fleetwood Enterprises’ RV Group announced the launch of its 2009 American Allegiance diesel luxury motor coach during RVIA’s 45th Annual National RV Trade Show on November 27th. This was the first American Coach introduction since 1999. Fleetwood also introduced two new folding trailers.

Duration : 0:15:28

Read the rest of this entry »