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  1. Moneybox
    A very interesting prototype but perhaps a little late to the market. Time will tell but with innovation like the Donut engine (as posted by Kyle Communications) combined with the Donut solid state battery it seems electric power is likely to soon become efficient enough to be the norm in many vehicles including aircraft.
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    In my RAAus training in the Harmony with a Rotax 912 we only ever tested carby heat operation at run-up. Carby heat was never used in flight.
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    I've found it better to buy the multi layered heat shrink from someone like MM Electrical, an electrical wholesaler. It seems to have a resin or something in there so it not only shrinks but seals and bonds as well. Not easy to remove but I don't usually want to pull my soldered joins apart. It stays tubular as well unlike some of the cheap stuff that flattens and kinks easily.
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    I've lagged my exhaust manifolds and muffler mainly to protect the many hoses. Since I had to rebuild No.2 pipe it has a slight dogleg too so that the filter can be removed. Neither of these is an allowable modification but necessary in my opinion.
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    34 years ago we did a trip to Ayres Rock and took the aboriginal tour around the base. The old gin showed us how they extracted the resin from the base of the spinifex grass by placing it into a coolamon and belting it with a stick. The resin mixed with fragments of grass, then she heated the coolamon over an open fire melting the contents into a bitumen like goo. She then demonstrated its use for holding stone spear tips and axe heads in place forming the hot solution with her bare hands. Each of the children received a stick with a ball of resin on the end, like a lolly pop. She (or the translator) said to reuse it just reheat it and that's all they had to do to change a spear tip or axe head. My son still has his memento that he received at 8yrs of age.
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    It wouldn't matter if the spinifex was green or dry, I've seen green patches of spinifex sending flames 6m into the air. We often camp in spinifex country and take a lot of care to contain the fire because once ignited there's no stopping it. It would make a very bumpy landing area too.
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    Maybe we need to concentrate on the reason for the fire. Why do planes burn so often when crashed? Road vehicles regularly crash with a very small percentage of those catching fire. Surely some preventative measures could be taken to reduce the risk of fire. He walked away from the crash so the plane may have only had minor damage before going up in a cloud of smoke.
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    He could have just been awfully unlucky. I had one attempt at landing at Jandakot where we dropped dramatically just after crossing the fence. We pulled up in ground effect over the grass. My instructor slammed the panic button and shouted go-around but it was too late to panic because we were setup for a perfect landing, just about 100m too early. We executed a go-around but I'd have just applied enough throttle to reach the runway. It all happened to quickly for either of us to react in time to prevent to rapid decent.
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    I've been told any landing you walk away from is a good one. Did he pass?
  10. Moneybox
    Very lucky you had your seat belt well fastened.
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    It looks just like the wetlands we flew over in Botswana but there we could see herds of large grazing animals, elephants, hippos, buffalo, zebras, impalas, giraffes and many more. Apart from Kangaroos we seemed to be a bit short of large plant eaters. Did the aboriginals wipe the out?
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    It was built by my father-in-law. He flew competitions across Australia and in the US. Dick Gibbs: Started control line modelling with a Mills 1.3 installed in a "Junior Cham-peen" then progressed to teamracing and scale. Somehow he became addicted to scale modeling and still has an Albatross DVA control liner that has placed twice at National championships. His favourite was the APS free flight Tiger Moth that won the State Free Flight Scale Champs five years in a row. Dick has flown Radio models since the 60s and is currently dabbling with Vintage C/L stunt.
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    Mrs M has an Albatros D1-D111 1917 German fighter tucked away somewhere. She won't let me fly it without a tail-dragger endorsement... 😒
  14. Moneybox
    I take it everybody walked away safely, tissue not needed?
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    If you're unlucky enough for one of your many lithium battery devices to burst into flames you're unlikely to survive to fight the fire anyway. LithiumRust.mp4 This is rust on all untreated steel under the Hyundai iLoad dash. The corrosion is only evident since the lithium fire a few weeks back. There was no fire in this area so it has to be chemicals released in the battery explosion.
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    You can't exactly stand outside and give it a squirt. Whatever it releases you're going to be breathing. Perhaps CO2 is the safest.
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    Nearly fixed... Still a bit of underbody to fit... I'll regas to air conditioning first thing in the morning. The dirty panels are off the doner vehicle.
  18. Moneybox
    Perhaps too late, never got over the attraction and feel....
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    After a quick trip out to the station I started on the van work. The vinyl job was stuck well but left nice shiny paint underneath. It's a long way from finished the 38°C day helped soften the plastic wrap.
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    Yes thank you. We’ve done quite a few signs. Mrs M’s van is ex-RAC and my old one was our Toll van. She already told me it’s my job before I bought it.
  21. Moneybox
    Something to do with the weather or the season, no more than a dozen bugs hit the screen on the trip home. Got two birds unfortunately. The wife warned me to not hit on any birds while I was away.
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    I did take a peek under the bonnet before I strapped it down. Pumped the tyres to 50psi while hot too. It ran so well no more checks were necessary for the rest of the trip. The windscreen sticker said it was due for a service as I left, it’ll get one now.
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    It’s a very long way from Caiguna to Cue but I’m home.
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    The racks don’t slow it down but they help chew the fuel, 11.5 L/100km. Another milestone. A poor unlucky bustard so it was time to look for a camp. I at Caiguna Blowhole waiting for sunrise.
  25. Moneybox
    I’m halfway, just 2/3rd to go. With 2340km left I should get there just after Rudolph.
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