Old Koreelah

...I don't know of any other activity, industry or pastime in Australia where the government have imposed a requirement that people must sign a declaration admitting that they could very well get killed flying behind one of these engines. This is the sole justification I need for the heading I chose for this thread....

The dodgy, unreliable car-derived engines I used to rely on were more in need of scrutiny from CASA.

Like any prudent aviator I assume my engine could stop at any time, but my safety has improved enormously since I fitted a Jabru engine.

... the rear attachment lugs shown in post # 41 were all from certified aircraft that were VH registered. The same design and construction was used in Jab's non certified aircraft...

When any large transport crashes at speed you usually get confetti; any large bits were probably built too heavy.

...The paddle steamers with their wool barges used to get up into Queensland in good years...

Kaz

Interesting topic. I researched lots of interesting car and bike engines, but I was disappointed to discover that, once you added a PSRU etc, none was as light as a Jab 2.2.

I got 50m on my brand new Ducati before a cover plate fell off and was lost. Even though the dealer had just fitted it (after adjusting the throttle) he refused to replace it under warranty. Things went downhill from there...

Paul Beeby and Tommy Newell are good friends and if you had spent the amount of time I have watching them do the warranty work in the day, the lust would subside some...

So where did the Sting go in this thread ??

Garfly wrote: 

 

Know anything about this one?

 

I spotted it parked at Dunkeswell Airfield in Devon a couple of years ago.

 

That's a Holman Bristol type 2000. From Air Britain Photographic Images: "Built by R.G.Holman in 2003 but 5 years later believed not yet flown."

 

www.airport-data.com/aircraft/G-CCGP.html

Ahh, the Le Mans Mk III. A work of art and one of the many bikes I lusted after.

I kept my overloaded Ducati upright all the way into the Alpine Rally site until, just in front of everyone my front wheel found an overgrown bunny warren. Bugger. How fondly I remember the community spirit as, next morning, the first thing anyone did after crawling out of the tent was try to start the frost-covered bike. Lots of kicking and cranking and a great cheer from across the campground as an engine would fire up.

Thread drift? Who cares! Brings back great memories of when I was young and indestructible. If only my Ducati was the same...

Gowenlock was our guru. When your heart says Ducati, but your head says Guzzi. My head won.

Are there other aircraft than Cessna?...

Can't help with installation, except to endorse previous advice to buy probes from Ian Bent at CAMit. He supplied me with CHT probes whose leads were long enough to reach, plus neat little covers to keep airflow off the sensors.

Good move Roscoe. Replacing a vague steam guage with a multipoint digital temperature monitoring system is wise, as long as the installation is thorough.

I am quite happy with mine. You can easily see temperature variations and can set the alarm temperature.

The horizontal bars show the max temp reached by each channel-a handy feature.

Leave those crows alone, Alan. They're aircraft too!

I agree. If there is spare fuel in the wing space, that sounds like quite a hazard to me. One spark and things could become really bad.

Looks like I was right about Dimona HK36 and you were right about Airbourne Research. adding the two terms got this:

http://www.airborneresearch.com.au/pdf/TriAnnualReport.pdf

 

Page 113, section 5 "Major Assets" 2 DA HK36TTC-ECO Dimona VH-EOS & VH-OBS

...the so called "RSL" clubs just a bunch of gambling/drinking dens, the actual clubs themselves do bugger all for veterans. And even have refused at times to allow certain veteran groups to be recognised..

I grew up with a bloke whose father fought harder and suffered more than most. What kept him going thru atrocious, hungry winters working down Silesian coal mines was the back pay he'd pick up if he survived being a POW. He wanted to buy a farm. He never got the money and the RSL was no help.

Only when I flog it on a cold morning.

The tool kit is another heavy component which can be relocated to change CoG. I've seen so many planes with heavy hammers in their tie-down kit; they must be as heavy as a battery.

...The best way to put the inserts in is cryogenic (Very cool to shrink metal) Liquid nitrogen, with the right interference and good finish so the heat transfers out of the seat. The seat shouldn't be too thick or it's too rigid to compress a bit, which helps it stay there. It's a process that needs good quality control , or you will have failures..Nev

In 1975 a valve guide failed on my Ducati as we rode into Melbourne. I kept going until we got to my brother's place. (The resulting smoke plume caused traffic chaos.) I purchased a new valve guide and seal, which we put in the freezer.

We had a beer or three while we assessed the situation. Using only the standard Ducati tools I removed the head (no head gasket). We put it in the oven. After another beer or two we removed the old guide, tapped in the new (cold) one and fitted the oil seal. After reassembling the valve gear, big brother used toothpaste to lap in the valve. Compression tested at 175psi and it ran like a locomotive for years thereafter.

...Just rebalancing by adding weight to the tail can adversely change spin characteristics of an aircraft, by distributing mass towards the extremities of the fuselage. Nev

As our dollar loses value against the U.S. dollar our exports to them become more competitive. American fliers seem to be a conservative lot and quite a few will prefer a simple, direct-drive engine, like Jabiru and CAMit make.

Because it has a market 25 times the size of Australia, both firms should be building a high profile in the U.S.

How much of the loot should we give to the survivors/descendants of the people it was stolen from?

(Albert Speers's daughter gave back all should could.)

The Taree trip has come just in time! The Hornet is just getting homesick...

I think the ability to lose a Nazi train in a mountain hideaway is quite plausible.The Nazi's had a habit of using slave labour and then killing all involved to keep it a secret.

Sad but true...