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  1. Marty_d
    Why did they recover the dead horse? Did they have pies?
  2. Marty_d
    I was born in 1972. Looking at the 4 Aeroflot crashes, I'd hazard a guess that removing vodka from the cockpit may have helped.
  3. Marty_d
    Like the Waterford crystal factory in Ireland (I lived in County Waterford for a while). If you do the factory tour they show you people blowing glass, then you go to another room where you stand behind a rope curtain and watch half a dozen skilled workers painstakingly cutting the grooves into the crystal glasses by hand. Then you kind of think... hold on, how many sets of glasses do they sell each day worldwide? And we're supposed to believe that 3 glass-blowers and 6 people with Dremels are supplying that...?
  4. Marty_d
    Looks like a Lego plane.
  5. Marty_d
    If you're talking about the multi-strand steel cable barriers threaded through steel posts, they're more like cheese graters for motorcyclists.
  6. Marty_d
    Ummm... Why didn't one of them drive? Surely they weren't drinking...
  7. Marty_d
    It also said "Rotors: 3 blades each" while in the top pics at least, my Mk.1 eyeball clearly tells me there's 2 blades each. Bottom one shows 3 blades and a different rego / colour scheme - so they made at least 2.
  8. Marty_d
    I reckon if you're pulling the guts out of a van you'd want to put in some steel frames anyway, much as Skippy did.
  9. Marty_d
    I figured that. Just looked funny on the trailer with wings out.
  10. Marty_d
    You didn't worry about her lifting off when you got to highway speeds Bernie? 😁
  11. Marty_d
    That's a lovely colour scheme.
  12. Marty_d
    Didn't our current monarch drive one of them off a runway once?
  13. Marty_d
    Is True airspeed indicated on any instruments or just calculated / shown on GPS? (Not that it's going to make much difference in a 701 😆)
  14. Marty_d
    Even for speed cameras?
  15. Marty_d
    Used to be, you could be certain of a "buffer" (usually 10%) where they wouldn't pull you over. So doing 106 in a 100 zone was pretty safe. I think the rot set in with Victoria first, pulling people over for 1 or 2 km/h over the limit. Now here in Tassie there's "Over is over" signs all over the highways promising zero tolerance.
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    Aeronca C-3

    Marty_d commented on red750's aircraft in Recreational (3 Axis)

    Not a fan of the look.
  17. Marty_d
    le cochon.
  18. Marty_d
    Looks like the love child of an AN2 and a Lysander.
  19. Marty_d

    Oil tank hatch

    Marty_d replied to Red's topic in Skyranger

    I had the same questions Red. Ended up making my own, worked pretty well. https://www.recreationalflying.com/forums/topic/28196-marty-ds-ch-701-build-log/?do=findComment&comment=541949&_rid=2988
  20. Marty_d
    She did extremely well.
  21. Marty_d
    "'Ere, what's Mabel wearing, Stan?" "I can't quite tell, Ed, but it sure needs ironing!"
  22. Marty_d
    Very nice. Lot of time and money went into that.
  23. Marty_d
    I'm a dad, I reserve the right to tell Dad jokes!
  24. Marty_d
    You canard-ly expect that not to be a problem.
  25. Marty_d
    The bloke who did the first inspection of my 701 advised me to get a spray inhibitor - think it was Cor-Ban - and said it misted so well that even giving a few blasts into the wings through the root lightening holes would give a good coating. Unfortunately I bought the wrong one by mistake - ended up with avionics corrosion inhibitor which doesn't mist well at all. In any case something like that or ACF-50 which seems to be heavily advertised when you search "Aircraft Anti Corrosion spray" could be an option. If you're rolling the black stuff neatly then maybe you could tape over it after it's dry and spray the rest of the part with either etch primer or a corrosion inhibitor.
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