spacesailor

The price CASA is asking for the 95-10 people to fly in POOR survivability aircraft.

Make it better and ITS ILLEAGLE.

spacesailor

Can I tag alo g too ,

spacesailor

Mine must be a cheapie as its air only.

spacesailor

I was thinking it would be like the " jaws of life " pneumatic" to the powerhead, then Hydrolic to the jaws.

If you change those jaws around you could use them as a power riviter to squash hard rivets.

spacesailor

Sorted

Thanks. I will have a look to understand better.

Could be " power riveting ", but why the air if hydrolic.

spacesailor

K G

A " Water " "Air " riviter ?

Perhaps Sweat & Tears !.

spacesailor

The Biggest help with "pop" rivets is the pneumatic air riveter, No more pains in your hands from squeezing the old type hand riveter.

spacesailor

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   • How has COVID 19 affected your flying or intended fly
     
   • Looks like the whole running out of ventilators thing is a bust.
     There are only about 10 Aus patients currently on ventilators. Lucky we have over 4000 ICU bed's
     

[*]If you require a ventilator your chance of survival is about 20% so patients don't spend much time on them anyway.

Remind me again what the lock down was for?

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[*] I have one from my sailing days, It's been sitting forlornly in the garage along with other boaty stuff for years, the Oxy cylinder was left behind on board.

[*]spacesailor

@onetrack

"A simple way to measure the stats, would be tracking the number of sales of part-finished aircraft."

Not all are sold / traded.

I just missed a HummelBird that was taken to the TIP, Three days later I arrived to find it "Baled" up as scrap aluminium.

Number two was turned into a child's pedal-plane.

Norm's ( WesternAustralia ) HummelBird, as well as Tony;s (South Grafton NSW ). never to be heard of again !.

And then there was at one-time 18 builders on a Hummel list.

ONE went to 95-19-xxxx build with a Rotax motor.

spacesailor

ClintonB

Without that "rollerdoor" opened I would still be outside,

But I could close it once inside, Though I like the Breeze from my two pot motor to blow the cobwebs and dust out of the adjacent Roller door, ( have a "Mullion " separating the two ).

Gives a large opening of 22 feet or 6.7056 French metres.

Huge amount of dust is exhaled by my little Bird. LoL.

spacesailor

Rabies in England, the army went out and kiled All the pets in could, including caged budgies.

Then found it was a false alarm.

spacesailor

I was OFFLINE, doing anything for years, because of Osteo hip,

Just to stand at my workbench was too painful after only minutes.

Now have to find time with a million jobs backed up awaiting my enthusiasm to return for each differant job, !

spacesailor

Working your fingers to the bone. LoL

spacesailor

Many thanks for your information.

I guess I won,t get to see them fly locally.

spacesailor

Here,s hoping my nephew at EasyJet keeps his position, : left seat that is.

spacesailor

Fantastic !

spacesailor

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My thee wheel HB.

spacesailor

Do'es it effect My flying.

NO

Not at all, as I can still sit ib the HummelBird, run the engine and dream My dream.

safely isolated in the garage, in, a single seat aircraft.!

UP UP AND AWAY.

Must'nt forget.

CLEAR-PROP, CHOCKS AWAY.

spacesailor

About the Same as a Rolls Royce. LoL

spacesailor

Thanks for that information.

Now who will be flying a motorised glider, after this FLU season has finished. LoL

spacesailor

Octave

You have to admit this & other governments are always bleating about the number of us OLDIES.

spacesailor

“You may not like the wealthy people, but they are the ones paying for most of the stuff that most people get from their government. "

Not if their lawyers can minimise their $millions, CEO's $53 million a year to sign a few paper that managers have spent months getting right.

They should have signed off on them, before, giving away such huge sums of money.

Octave " So what is your theory? some kind of conspiracy? "

YES

Defiantly, A big one from many governments, to cut that huge burden, of too many oldies, being supported by the young workers of today !.

DA DA

BUT its going to cost them (governments ) A LOT.

spacesailor

O M E

Under the old AUF, HummelBird aircraft fitted all the known rules for 95-10 registration.

August 1992 registration number 1103 was allocated to my HummelBird, fees payed.

The new RAA Introduced further (unknown to the 18 present builder's, ( wing,Load,Rule ,( about 2005 or 2006)).

Flying aircraft were deemed "Grandfathered" to continue as registered flying aircraft.

All the others, even registered, were to be removed from the 95-10 registration, my registration disappeared from that list of registered aircraft ( 95-10-1103 ).

We, the builders were not notified about any dates to do our test flight, or we too would have been " grandfathered ".

We as per bureaucracy were trying to gain our flight Certificate. before test flying.

Now they Bureaucracy of RAA, want us to pay again for a different ( 95-19 ) registration category.

I have no inclination to be trying to fit a 95-10 registered aircraft into a 95-19 category, as it seems the same aircraft will also fit the VH experimental category without a weight worry !.

Hope this clears up my Big Gripe'

spacesailor

NO doubt they won't do anything about the 95-10 wing load rule, that stopped builders registering their HummelBird planes.

spacesailor

" Work, if a person can't work from home "

It IS Work !.

Love your job.

It IS exercise.

It will be Educational for you.

To do or Not to do.

That is a compelling excuse.

spacesailor