spacesailor

2500 tickets at $25.00 = $62,500, not enough for a new toy. $40 tickets will just make the $100,00, I think. A quick internet search gave me "1974 Cessna 310Q SIDS Compliant. at $90,000+GST",

The cost of owning such an aircraft, to the winning ticket holder, could & probably would be off-putting ( insurance+hangaradge),

Much better a smaller trailerable single engine, could even be as small as "powered-parachute /trike or gyro on trailer.

Just my observation. Could a second-hand item get GST exemption, when used in this way, and the donor getting tax deduction.

spacesailor

Mine say's parts etc, relevant items (prop/engine) marked N/A.

spacesailor

A few hours on the clock!.

An Awful lot were new never flown, most were test flown, as the Canadian super sabre jet fully fueled & armed ( I also had the job of dismantling bullets/canons even mortar shells for there component parts).

The worst (frightening) job was puncturing fuel tanks with an axe!, then pushing an open top drum under to catch the fuel. (petrol was in very short supply)

An apprentice's job was a very cheap dogs-body, like putting canon shells in a vice to work the cartridge loose, put cordite into one drum brass in the next and third metal into another unless it's magnesium, which was kept separate. ( so we could burn it in the river), & had to fire the detonator part to make it safe !.

Happy day's met a beautiful young thing there, Still together after 56 year's, 52 years married.

spacesailor

I'll still ask?.

Why a prospective owner has to get an ACR on a seller's aircraft. before it can be put into their name?

If it's not up to the buyer's standards and they declines to buy, does the seller keep the buyer's ACR,

spacesailor

England.

Lots of airfields full of aircraft with only one way out. very few had somebody with enough money to preserve even Spitfires / Mustangs /American and English bombers, & even the new jet fighters.

So ?

were are they now, the $64,000 question

At 300 pounds NET profit, Aluminum ingots were made, then shipped back to the old USofA. A lot of the wood & canvas type were burnt first.

spacesailor

OOps sorry bad english!

I meant it as, He took it home & kept it, it's still there in his yard,

I didn't mean to be mean

Going on aircraft movements I sorrowfully lay claim to helping move hundreds if not thousands to their end, (by truck), two pounds for a Mosquito minus engines!.

spacesailor

That's too much information: Carden-Baynes Bee twin engined two seater.

spacesailor

I know of a" Better" one.

A transport company moved a museum from Bankstown, and ended up with a "Ansett" DC aircraft, was in their front garden for a long time, now moved to the rear yard,

I have often thought of volunteering to give it a wash & polish, as I passed driving along the Mitchel hwy.

spacesailor

Once a person has their own aircraft, the practical training is that much of a lower cost, they should be able to afford the academic cost more easily.

I think the price of such a valuable prize would warrant more than $25. and less chance of selling insufficient tickets to cover all eventualities.

spacesailor.

PS any chance of including accommodation, for interstate winners.

PLEASE: PHIL

spacesailor

As I understand:

The RAA flying club's don't charge for academic training, only actual flight training.

spacesailor

STILL

laughing

laughing

spacesailor

still laughing. I need more of these.

The dearest raffle I know sold 75,485 tickets at $66.40 each for an island resort, I didn't buy one. 1 winner in NSW.

A $100,000 aircraft plus training plus charity residue would need a LOT of tickets at $50.

(did the calculator bit but couldn't understand the answer) 2,000?))

spacesailor

I would think an aircraft that fits both civil & RAA would be better than just VH registered,

my two cents worth. ( fifty dollars a ticket I'm interested ) count as ................ 2 sold

spacesailor

The flying club, often hire out aircraft, as long as not in use, beats have no return on assets laying idle, usually have to be club member and proven performer.

spacesailor

And again: "It's an examination of the whole aircraft by a "competent" person, so should give some assurance to a PURCHASER, of the aircraft's integrity"

BUT, the aircraft vendor does Not complete the ACR, the Buyer has to get it done so they can register it in their name, even if your new toy is a bag of bits, you need an ACR to change owner-ship.

spacesailor

The nose is similar to a "slingsby"

spacesailor

NOW THAT'S A GREAT PLANE.

spacesailor

Facthunter:

Standard ! layout multi's are poorly designed as no counter rotating engines & wide apart motors.

The BUGATTI100P was exceptionally streamlined thanks to its revolutionary inline engine design—wherein the 100P's pair of 4.9L, 450HP, drove a pair of counter-revolving props.

If the engines are not coupled one engine out wouldn't unbalance the aircraft.

Two 503's driving two counter-revolving props would be about 100hp, in a light plane one motor should give enough power for safe power-outs.

spacesailor

My problem too,

Un-flown new home-built aircraft plus low hour pilot =

You guess the outcome.

spacesailor

Don

I'd like a counter rotating prop driven by two 2- pot 2-stroke motors.

spacesailor

Congratulations Aplund,

I was pretty well lost on the acronyms (three pages,like YBAF)

I could have wrote more but 20" (minutes) looking up acronym took its toll on my meager brain cells, good job I didn't throw away the old paper dictionary.

spacesailor

FREE FLIGHT !.

spacesailor

Censorship :

The BBC and all radio/ TV are censored. Full stop.

When a clip from the Locherbie disaster accidentally when to air, also repeated on the radio.

A bum lodged on a roof, the radio announcer said ( part of a human torso) he was on the dole smart quick.

You never see the pools of blood after a massacre. ( not that I care, but it make life unrealistic)

spacesailor

SURPRISE,

With over 1,000 registered flying "HUMMELBIRDS", and only two fatalities (that I know of) in more than thirty years, this very Hummble aircraft should be up in the winners circle. : .61mpg@ 100mph & good-looking to boot.

Now to be blasted out of the sky. LOL

spacesailor