spacesailor

" I thought this forum was about recreational flying with powered aircraft. I haven't seen any hang-gliding or HOB forums on the site? "

I thought RAA & the BAK exam were about recreational flying.  My mistake, Passengers. luggage, multiple fuel loads . all for W & B, questions .

spacesailor

"he was referring to heavier-than-air craft, that utilise engine power and aerofoils to stay aloft."

That was not stated.

And the German Female that went up in a thunder-storm to get the world record certainly had No engine power !.

SO you can fly very high & for as long as an engine powered aircraft can. "Ultralights" that is. Not jumbo jets.

spacesailor

Sorry to disagree .

BUT

An airship flys..

So do all the hot air balloons.

OR CASA wouldn't make them have pilot licences.

spacesailor

But L DaVinci didn't have carbon-fibre, or super lightweight fabric for the skins.

With enough height you should have a few Minutes to perfect your flying skills !.

I mean they have a "Manta-Ray flying. It flaps it "wings like an Ornithopter, no propeller. (

spacesailor )

The right sized wing area , with lightweight material. assembled as Mr da Vinci's hang glider .

A one off leap off a cliff,!.

Fly or don't come back.

Angles wings not allowed ?.

News to me.

Sydney's rocketMan.

Congratulations to David Mayman,rocketMan.html

"https://www.recreationalflying.com/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=39722"

Only took ten years.

spacesailor

Ask MR Da vinci for his Hang-glider plans ?  ( Leonardo da Vinci )

spacesailor

m61A1

Yes very daunting.

So easy in training with an experienced instructor besides me, (A-22  FOXBAT )

BUT

New single seat aircraft, not knowing how much input to controls. I wouldn't be the first to porpoise a Hummel to a Bad landing.

Are the wheels in line with the rudder,? Fast taxi-ing will soon have your heart in your mouth, if the plane goes left under take-off speed , then right as soon as the nose-wheel looses grip,

I did ask the only experienced  HummelBird pilot if he would test-fly it, but he had others to checkout as well, so declined. It is a Big ask for anyone to take a risk in an unknown aircraft.

So a quick run on a closed road, & yes the wheels are Not aligned with the rudder. (great having someone that can close a road legally.)

spacesailor

Jaba

"I think ink those who want the old rag and tube days have to just make the most of their own time to fly and give up pining for a return of the good ol’ days. "

DO you mean,"just go & fly".

Its a bit frightening,

NO license.

NO registration .

NO insurance.

NO experience.

Any chance you have a hide-away airfield. We could use. Just occasionally

spacesailor

"Another skill that had to be leaned was standing up 8 foot 10x10 inch salmon gum legs in a mine, "

Pit-Props

.

My elder brother had a funny job one day.

To close a mine-shaft he dynamited the pit-props, so caving in the roof, of an unsafe shaft. Fire-in-the-hole !.

spacesailor

The Big sods were a lot too thick to use their heads, & do it the easy way !.

spacesailor

be like an Angel. get wings.

spacesailor

BUT

Dam good advice !. LoL

spacesailor

"IF there was an easy and cheap way, everyone would be doing it.. Nev " (to fly).

The BUREAUCRATS   will kill it off quick !.

Aren't the "Nanotrikes cheap to run.

spacesailor

When I was young !, at 7st7lb, I could throw a full sized oxygen bottle onto my shoulder, to take to the welder.

Like Yenn rolled it over the knees to get momentum, then up & over , (silly bas  ard ) probably ruined my hip, if not other bits.

spacesailor 

DON't forget the" wing loading"

" aircrafts hp cruise speed and stall speed instead of MTOW "

35hp,  80_90 Mph, 40Mph,

should fit your bill

6 to 8 ltrs per hour AND all metal !.

Pity the Bureaucrats had to kill it off !.

Kids of all ages still love to sit in it .

If someone is  in your aircraft, do you have to have their permission to post "their " picture. Or name. (Sister,in,laws, grand-kids in my picture)

(was on the RAA registration list, but removed)

spacesailor

PS

I Never gave a thought that he was having a bite out of me.

BUT he could have been a big liar !.

Who knows the working of a farmer's mind.

PPs the friend who got the Uncles car was lost to a traffic accident .

spacesailor

NO I went to pick up his old 57 chevy,  (Freebie) for a friend. He took me around the farm, because I queried all the New looking diesel motors, strew around the yard & paddock. sat in the cab of the harvester watching little birds scurrying out of the way.(quail ?).

Met again in the Dubbo Bowling club "All you can eat restaurant" the following year & He told me He's got the same government incentive again (No Wheat).

I have posted this aspect of someone Not using diesels (as maintenance was not only expensive but very slow to get the gear running in the harvesting time.

If the NEW diesel powered machine stops for a day he could loose a crop. So he bought a number of ford v8 petrol motors as back up.(out with the NEW in with one He can maintain.

PS the farm at Maryvale was sold & the airfield plowed under. But still has the expensive red balls outside the property.

spacesailor

just a note.

I notice the New plants are only a third of the output of the first smokey power plant !.

 " max power 1400 mW, with lots of smoke." & " On the right is the Tarong North power plant, 443 mW, on line 2003. With a much cleaner exhaust due to the more modern supercritical design",

spacesailor

RAA is shedding the 95-10 registration by any means it can.

They,  can go VH experimental, then be under someone else's administration.

" Using liability as an excuse for not doing anything is a little bit like the current trend of labelling people as "racist" for holding a view which is different to yours. Once the flag is waved is it is hard to take it down."

Same as the opposite to the Hetro's. 

Always red-under lined, (spelling). and never in the alphabetical name list that the other's use H.

spacesailor

I had an acquaintance that was told by the guvment NOT to plant wheat, & got a big handout which payed for a crop of "chickpeas". The chickpea buyer offered $5 m. for the crop, the farmer (Dubbo) hired  the harvester & promptly got the crop in & boxed up,

Informing the buyer to take it away. & was promptly told the buyer would have to give him a $million more for the harvesting, which wasn't in the contract.

Money in farming if your lucky.

spacesailor

Still needs to be in Australian, Not Lawyer-speak.

spacesailor

I for one member Do Not speak "Lawyer speech" .And I agree with Jackc, " Well, write the rules so they are reasonable easy to understand. ".

Far Too many Lawyers & bureaucrats used to baffle the masses.

spacesailor

" If people want to do Aeros, spins, instrument flying & night flying get you PPL & fly GA, "

AND higher weight,. GA fly's any weight you want, why move to RAA & not be allowed to fly the way you are used to.

GA permits night flying I believe ?.

Higher weight with medical & lami maintenance in RAA defeats your purpose.

spacesailor

They were used in Spain.

Very faint recollection.

spacesailor