planedriver

Bonjouer Piere. You look great!

Congratulations flyerme.

With an old bird like that, you'll need some leatherbound flying goggles to look the part.

I have a pair of WW2 leatherbound RAF MK 9 goggles you can have. The elastic needs replacing which shouldn't be hard to do, but if you'd like to PM me your address, i'll send them to you and i'd be happy they'd be put to good use.

Sorry I don't have a leather coat or funny helmet with a spike on the top to top it off though.

Maybe it's time you also grew a moustache.

Kind Regards

Alan

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Church hall was in use Tuesday evenenings for Boy Scouts, Girl Guides.

For those who study avaition weather before they fly, the following may be worth noting.

Hurricanes are usually named after women?

Because when they arrive, they're wet and wild, but

when they go, they take your house and car, but hopefully not your plane.

Ignition check smooth at full power and 2000RPM on both switches.Problem is only at 2600 RPM on RH ignition.

As Bruce has said,keep ignition wires away from engine.

Another slim posibility is a weak spring in the switch itself, causing the contact to bounce a little under certain vibration harmonics. Plus check that all ignition electrical connections are clean and tight.

Is your real name "Big John, or Little John like in the Robin Hood story"?

Simplicity = the essence of reliability.

That's my two bobs worth.

I'm with you Nev.

Partially blocked fuel filter, perhaps?

Change it anyway, then try again.

You say ok at full power, but is it only for a short burst, or will it maintain full power without hesitation?

Nick, if you're thinking of a 'cheap', high-time GA aircraft, it'd be a very sound idea to talk to a Part 21M engineer about things like the fatigue life of components and repair costs of the aircraft involved. I think you can 'stretch' the life of a Lycosaurus via 'on inspection', but if the mainspar is about up to its hours, then I doubt you can do anything but replace it - if replacements are available. There's a reason why you see apparently undamaged older aircraft sitting forlornly on the edges of airports with weeds growing up through the control surfaces...Also, the cost of maintaining an older, stressed-skin and rivets construction GA-type is not cheap; not only is it very, very labour-intensive work but you have to use release materials / have a Part 21M engineer prepare a repair scheme in some cases - that may include analysis of the original material if manufacturer's documentation is not available. Replacing a cast component that is not longer in production (such as say a spar end fitting) could become a nightmare. A VH-Ex reg. homebuilt is another story entirely, so an RV might be a serious contender if you pick the right model.

 

A mate of mine has been doing up a Victa Airtourer for the past about eight years now (does bits when he has assembled some more funds..) and for complexity, by comparison to a Jab 230 / 430, it's a ridiculously complex aircraft with a massive parts-count. On the plus side for him it'll be aerobatic, which the Jab cannot be - but for general getting-around-the-place use, the Jab. is just streets ahead. The Victa was built before NC machining, which means just about every damn part was basically hand-machined - and there are small but appreciable tolerance differences between parts that means ANY replacement part has to be hand-made to fit the specific aircraft.

 

You might want to also investigate insurance costs in your 'due diligence' of the operating budget.

 

All of that aside: I reckon that IF you pick the right model and example of a suitable GA aircraft, your basic point is correct: but rushing in to buy, say, a slightly-dented, high-time Traumahawk (for instance) may leave you in a vale of tears and a life doomed to tinkering in the hangar for more hours than you spend flying. It'd be a bit like finding a tired Jaguar E-type in a farmer's shed for less money than you'd have to pay for a somewhat-used Mazda MX-5: if you're into the restoration bit, the end result would be a wonderful (if vastly expensive) thing - but you'd miss out on a hell of a lot of fun driving in the sunshine to interesting places with no fears that you'd have to be towed to complete your journey.

So you're saying you're a very heavy sleeper?

No Mars Bars, but I should confess that we pinched a fair few grapes when kneeling down during the Harvest Festival services, when the church was adorned with choir boy tucker, and we tried to spit the seeds to the boys oposite us.

What a holy little tyke, and to think my Dad was the local Crown Sergeant:cops:

Sorry Marty, but I was referring to your No2 post, beacause my ex-wife married an ex-priest and he seems happy as she still has a bit of money left.

Yes I was a choirboy for 8yrs and escaped untouched.

Sorry gents, but you're all missing the main point. What the hell was Planey doing looking at Flightradar 24 at 5am?? Go to bed man!

red750 Dont know how the 715ft altitude came about, because I saw that numerous times when it looked like it had dropped off the radar.

Next minute it was showing altitude as 63,000 ft again.

We learn something new every day they say.

This morning I was looking at Flightradar 24 at about 5am and spotted what appeared to be a small aircraft.

When I clicked on it, it came up as a Google balloon flying at 17knts at an altitude of 63,000 ft. It had been launched deep in Victoria's south and is now drifting east of Batemans Bay in NSW. This is the first time i've come across this, and a little research revealed that Google are launching a number of these to give internet access to remote areas.

It was interesting to see it's flight path and you could clearly see where the air currents had taken it in a large orbit east of Holbrook.

I wondered how many others were aware of these balloons?

Nice video, thanks for posting it mauld.

Never visited Duxford when I lived in the UK, now i'm regretting it.

Maybe next time I visit.

Not too close thanks.

Sounds like "clap trap" to me:yikes:

On the balance of probability there would have to be at least 2 or 3 catholic priests who find adult women attractive.

On reflection, i'm so grateful to him:cheers:

Yea! we're right behind you Bex.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained as the saying goes.

Good onyer Bex, keep at it mate. We are all waiting in anticipation

That looks beautiful. Well done!

Don't just keep polishing it back to bare metal before getting it in the air, as tempting as it may be in the interim period.,

Happy wife=Happy flying

Welcome to the forums Toady, good to have you aboard.

Good luck with getting the Jabby finished.

Hope you're wrong with the 95% finished, 95% to go estimate.

Kind Regards

Planey

Come on guys, get off your arse.

Here we have a high ranking Polly/fellow pilot. who may not be in your State, but is doing his damndest to make things better.

I can't remember anyone else in his sort of position, who is on our side and making things actually happen.

For Christ sake take a minute of your time to give him a bit of support.

He is a rare find.

Send him an email and say "thank you" for his efforts.

It's the very least we can do. We so need more like him.

My computer is playing silly buggers at the moment, but he can be contacted through the link in Turbo's post No 1 above.

Thats great news Turbo, good on him.

Pity we don't have someone like him in NSW

Shortsighted Councils can only seem to see the dollar signs from selling off airports for housing and commercial developments.

Building a replacement for it somewhere else, never seems to come into the equation.

I'm sending a brief email to him personally via the website in Turbo's original post, to congratulate him on his efforts.

It would be nice if others took a moment of their time, to do likewise.