Marty_d

The sag of the bag is directly proportional to the motion of the ocean?

14hrs over water in a single! His B@!!$ must be made of unobtainium

And before that, the Victa Airtourer / CT-4... designed in Australia, rights sold to NZ, then we buy the aircraft back...

Not to mention the Collins Class submarine, and the endless money pit commonly known as the F-35 JSF.

If there's one thing Defence procurement is good for, it's wasting money.

To say nothing about the Bugatti racer replica being built in the US.

Chipyak or Yakmunk? The canopy is a bit Harvard too... I go for the Chipvard.

Hornet STOL? Not tandem, but then not much is these days.

...and you just answered the bit about vehicle access in the post that went up while I was typing mine. Sorry.

My last option seems to be to get a trailer and store the trike at home. But by the time I rig the wing there won't be much time to fly due to thermals, sea breezes or darkness setting in. And, there are no suitable ways to access an airstrip to rig and derigg as required. (probably worse wear and tear than in the current hanger).

We had to rig those after lugging them for half an hour up the side of a hill, yes it takes a little while but surely time management kicks in here... just saying if you can't afford any other option then trailering might be it.

Don't really understand the bit about "no suitable ways to access an airstrip to rig and derigg"... you have to fly from somewhere and presumably any airstrip has a gate to allow vehicles in... please forgive me if I'm missing something blindingly obvious!

Cheers, Marty

I heard a good line that applies to both Google and News Corp:"All the latest news, straight from your phone......"

 

Google are using readers (algorithms) to harvest information from your emails.

 

News Corp of course had their little hiccup with hacking phone accounts in the UK.

When I bought my Jabiru I got emails saying my plane was ready for delivery but I needed to deposit money in a bank account so the plane could be processed by customs! I never could work out where the emails were coming from, certainly not Jabiru! I still get crazy emails about lost packages waiting for me etc.

CIA used Helio Stallions not PC6.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_America_(airline)

Good movie too. One of Robert Downey Jnr's best IMHO.

Jeez even the CIA knew enough to use C-123's and Pilatus PC-6's. They carry more drugs too.

You wouldn't crash with those wheels, you'd just bounce!

Sad story Steve and I'm sorry to hear your mate didn't turn out to be much of a mate at all.

Jeez after reading this post I'm tempted to only put 1 seat in the 701.

Good luck with it all, hope it turns out well.

I could make a guess that they included any incident of an aircraft being damaged, while occupied (well I hope they included the occupied thing to exclude wind/flood/fire damage to parked aircraft!)

But as the man said, define "crash". Is a hard landing that bends the main gear a crash? Scraping your wingtip along another aircraft? Having the rolling stairs bump into you a little hard??

Hi Marty,I see you're from Tassie - but if you are ever over Melbourne way drop into Point Cook RAAF Museum and take a look at the Mosquito they are currently rebuilding (sadly not to flying condition, just for static display).

 

Edit -> Ah - just spotted Facthunter has already pointed this out!!

 

Cheers,

 

Neil

Hey Neil,

Thanks for that - I have been to the Point Cook museum once many years ago, pre-Mosquito obviously.

I was lucky enough to do a driving tour of southern England a few years back, stopped into a few museums and airshows including Goodwood, a Piper Cub fly-in at Popham Airfield, Winchester (there was also an Antonov AN-2 there - is it the one on your avatar Phil??), York Air Museum (there was a Mossie there), and IWM Duxford near Cambridge. Seeing a Hurricane doing touch and goes at Duxford was incredible.

DID YOU KNOW. . . .That,. . . . in the USA, between 1983 and 2000, there were 568 recorded aircraft crashes.

 

Now, 51,207 of the 53,487 persons on board these aircraft,. . . actually got out alive. This reveals a survival rate of 96 percent . . ! Not bad Huh Buddy ? ? ? ?!!

 

Phil

Speed is a factor in all accidents. If all vehicles had no speed, they couldn't crash...

I agree with Ianrat - I bought the 701 plans about 6 years ago and all the aluminium to scratch build it shortly after.

However I went for a fly in a 750 a couple of years ago and was wishing I was building that instead. It's got several advantages over the 701 structurally - it's skinned in 0.020" instead of 0.016" so stiffer skins (only adds a couple of kg), has a full span rear spar on the wings instead of the full ribs and short rear spars between them that the 701 has, and the trailing edges of wing and stabilizer are folded rather than brought together and solid riveted. (I actually changed my stabilizer to the 750 method because it makes more sense and is a neater job).

As well, the corners on the fuselage have a rounded extrusion rather than a folded L - angle, so it takes the "boxy" look out of the edges.

I won't get into the whole slats/VG's discussion, I'm building with slats because that's what the original design has, but I understand that several builders have gone for VG's instead and had positive experiences. Interesting that Zenith have now released the Cruzer which has new airfoil and no slats, looks more like a Savannah than ever.

In relation to the window above the fuselage, excellent for vision, but some builders are of the opinion that the flat roof where it meets the windscreen stalls at a higher speed than the wing (John Gilpin tested it I believe?)

One builder in the US changed his to have an airfoil shape above the cabin and said that it's made several improvements including stability on slow approaches and less oil-canning. (see http://www.zenith.aero/group/stolch701/forum/topics/beanie-mod)

Anyway whatever you go for, if it's built straight I'm sure you'll be happy with it! Good luck.

Weren't the fuselage halves made of end grain Balsa sandwiched between Canadian Birch? I think they stopped using the Casein after a while in favour of a synthetic glue.

In any case, very clever construction (apart from the ones that flew to pieces... )

I love the Mossie. Trust the Brits to build a plane out of balsa wood and get it up to 631 km/h.

Silly question probably, but what happens if you fly into rain, with the electric motor hanging out in the breeze? I assume it is sealed somehow but it will need some sort of airflow for cooling.

Electric cars would have that problem too I'd assume - still have to cool the motor, but wet roads / downpours / water kicked up from trucks would have to put some moisture into the engine wouldn't it? Obviously it's not hanging up the front with a prop right in front of it in a car though, so I guess the amount of liquid getting to it would be much less.

Great designs. Regardless of practicality, they're works of art.

I`ve given permission to a couple of guys to fly large models and helicopters off our property and I may give permission to their club. I`d like to get more information on the liability issues of flying models and what to look out for.In the event of an accident caused by a model aircraft, resulting in someone being injured, would the person flying the aircraft be liable or the land owner who`s property it is being flown from?

 

Has flying model aircraft ben deemed to be a dangerous activity?

 

Frank.

Farri, as an ex-model flyer I think you're a bloody champion for letting them fly on your land.

As others have said the MAAA insurance covers public liability, as I recall annual club fees were up around the $200 mark when I stopped flying models about 15 years ago and most of that was insurance.

I was learning to fly the real thing at the same time, vividly recall one time when I overflew the club (Kelly Field, out near Richmond) at 500 ft AGL in a C172 and was treated to the sight of a largish model biplane slow rolling about 100 ft below and to the side of me.

I believe you will be wanting one of these then !

 

I agree with the drool... do they make an electric version? Beautiful aircraft.