flyerme

Agree with Riley, you haven't been married long enough for a drifter , best keep the missus along side you in the thruster and in a few more years when the nagging starts trade to a drifter with intermittent intercom stoppages..Good luck and only you can ultimately decide your flying fate ,

I ask you this - when you fantasise about taking the missus on flying adventures is she next to you? Or behind you?

There's your answer.!

First test of smoke system

Did he buy that thruster new? i don't remember fitting 3 bladed props to Robin powered T83s

Ok I'm feeling generous , since it is was a very small snippet I may be enclined to add just 1 defiantly last chapter

I know I know , it's been some time but I have honestly been busy.

This will be ( sadly for you guys )the last posted chapter. Theses cut down chapters serve purely as an insight into the book. Think of them as a long blurb!

it still remains un -edited with a nice variety of both spelling and grammer mistakes.. and on the subject anyone out there want to do a free proof read when its finalized?

Enjoy

CHAPTER 15 "charlie's new tricks"

feb 3 1983

After Dorris complaining about "family time" tommy and I were forced to trailer our girls home..

June 15 1983

the last months have been rather boring with only local flying and charlie still yet to find another bird.

although I did have a little incident the other week.

I went for a flight testing a new camera mount to my elderly grandfathers(we recently put in a small 200 meter strip over his drive.has power lines one end and 2x 50 ft trees with 80 ft gap the other end however the fisher drops in no worries)were I ussually drop in for a cuppa and hangar talk or listen to his sailing days,anyway I was just approaching when it became emencely turbulent?nothing my bird couldn't handle but non the less surprising.I was not yet committed to landing and noted his wing sock pointing 90 degrees across the narrow small strip. then like the hand of god himself I was lifted up!I killed power to idle but was still going up with the nose pointed at the ground.next I was dropping like brick with full power and nose at the sky sinking faster then the left wing was thrown up and I was pot in a 60 deg+ bank..by now i was a little sweaty to say the least and decided i'm landing this bird.NOW! I lined up the 2 trees as best I could with a crab angle that sore my left wing acting as though it was the nose of the plane and still bouncing and twisting,skidding and slipping but I was committed..as I dropped below the tree line my bird straightend up and I made it threw "the gap" (the 2x 50 foot gumtrees) I flaired over the use able 200 meters but before touch down and as the tree line was no longer the 90 degree x wind grabbed me pushing off the runway as I touched down,I completed the most perfect aircraft ballete with not a scratch on my bird...after a coffee with the old feller I found myself a lil scared to fly out.a swift kick up the backside from Pa had me back up in the air heading for home at a higher altitude in smooth air i must confess...

We have all still been dreaming about our doco and I have made new camera mounts for when it happens?can not wait!

SEP 23 1983

Charlie finally found his dream girl....An australian factory biult ultralight called a thruster T-83.

I must say for a broom stick its rather attractive..

he demistrated its flying capabilities in what can only be decribed as "death defying!"litterally.

after assembling it ,(which was very quick with its patented wing colasping design) he fired up the robin engine,also sporting a 3 blade brolga (plastic/fibreglass thingy)and was soon galloping down the strip and airborne.he climbed up to a guesstimated 1000 ft then .....The engine stopped he went into a dive and smoke began pouring from the plane.

I started screaming franticaly"pull up ,pull up..oh god no pull up"I could now here the roar of wind as he got nearer diving,smoke pouring out in a long trail and now spinning!!!I could see the enevertible end approaching now in slow motion and then.....the smoke stopped,the plane stopped spinning,the nose came up and the buzz of the high pitched 2 stroke engine could once again be herd..

I couldn,t believe it!! i dropped to my knees crouched over with tremendus emotions washing over me,,finding my self once again thanking a god I dont believe in for sparing the life of my best friend.As i sat crouched with water in my eye I realized charlie was still flying?I looked up and he was back up at 1000 ft?I stood up in disbelief as once again the engine stopped,the plane death spiralled with smoke pourring out and ,,"oh crap not again! why didnt you land charlie?why?" I screamed "god no" then like deajarvou he smoke stopped ,plane stopped spinning and leveled and engine sung again."what the heck is going on?"

he then sets up final only to skim down the runway in what looked like a 90 degree side slip?back up to x hight and he bloody loops the thing? He then does a nose down barell roll the old bugger,

to be honest i was still in shock...after more death defying aerobatics he made a perfect wheeler...

"how'd ya like that Jackie boy?

WHAT THE HELL? i thought you were bleeping dead!

"So you like my new smoke system then old mate?" You cheaky old bugger charlie you frightend the stuff on my right shoe(shit) outa me ...

Next mission = smoke system on my fisher.

At the risk of being called a party pooper, I can't elicit a laugh at the above. At a time when we are about to have a focus on mental health, I can see little benefit from attempted jokes like this when self inflicted harm impacts so severely on our society.As a vollie Ambulance Officer in the bush I have attended both attempted, and completed suicides, and they are not something I would have knowingly put on life's agenda, nor found in the slightest bit funny.

 

flyerme, give us a joke that we can all laugh to loudly, yet be respectful of all elements of society, and I will be the first to applaud you.

Go to a tall building and look up pointing and shouting " NOOOOO. DONT DO IT . Don't jump. "Wait untill a crowd gathers then slighly walk away

Welcome :)

Dang can't view on ipad :(

L

It wasn't in the Prof Avious column. Why do people bag him without even checking? You end up as bad as you say he is.I'm going to phone RAAus this afternoon and see if they know more than we do.

Should leave it on all the time.. looks like an authentic castor oil burner

Managed a little flight to test my new smoke system

Here's a pic of my old redneck farmer bunyip engine frame! With safety wire lmfao. Ok I will be honest it really part of the new hangar I'm building

Loo

That doesn't sound like it an AC43.13 approved method of aircraft construction. He wasn't a farmer by any chance was he?

Yep I would definitely have killed the engine. My old bunyip had safety wire wrapped around engine and mount, as the old owner lost a blade once and cracked the engine mounts ( yes he shut it down) So when he replaced the mount he also put the wire around the lot to be sure I guess.

What do you mean "old days"? 2014

Swag in back seat and done!

Rans s-10 sakota- lsa

Yeah, did you buy the nieuport in Townsville? I was looking at that too.Yes this is the one for sale, looks like my next project.

 

Thanks for the help

. Yeh would be a great little project.. I think I may have seen it fly years ago at a flyin at goolwa s.a ? Oh and pretty sure it's a mid wing "Rans. "

Is this the one that is/was for sale in s. A for $3000 ?

No eng requiring wings finished?

Not that I can help but

If so I was interested in it and I too found info hard to come buy.

Bought my dream plane in the end ( nieuport )

Much better Tim. Thanks. Be careful that scarf of yours doesn't come adrift and tangle with the tail feathers.BTW, you're pretty nimble for a Cripple, you term, not mine.

Nice little x wind again( note wind sock @ 1:44)

And @2:40 had to shoot down enemy fokker( it was more likely a Cessna but I shot it down anyway! I need the practice )

Nice vids Tim, but please, please, forgo the music. I think we'd all prefer to hear engine and wind noises. One day soon, I'll get round to paying you a visit, albeit by road.

Got a 20 lt drum left over from last fly in somewhere .Mineral oil.

Reckon I paid $50

 

Phil

 

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Mate you have a Nieuport - don't even think about using anything less than castor oil.

Th

also known as sumer or winter oil