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  1. bexrbetter
    Who comes up with this stuff?
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    The reference was towards the drivetrain system layout having been around for a long time now and well proven. .
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    Me. I love catching buses and trains to enjoy the ride and actually look at things, or close my eyes for a moment, or look at messages, etc. I don't think there's a big conflict, IF these ever fly, they will be within city areas you can't fly your light plane now anyway.
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    and yet there's 3 million Toyota Prius driving around with no problems ... Doesn't matter, it's the internet.
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    OMG! It's true!! https://www.ayupp.com/social-viral/plane-disappeared-in-1955-landed-after-37-yrs-15218.html https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/flight-914-reappears-37-years/
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    Yeah, show us the "stuff" so we can show our technical ignorance, start fights, troll and make completely unfounded accusations, you know, normal forum procedure!* * All characters appearing in this sentence are ficticious. No animals were harmed or chemicals tested on. Any resemblance to real forum members living or dead without the intials FT, are pure coincidence.
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    Maybe, but so what, are you against the market having cheaper, safer aircraft for others to choose from, even if you are happy with your choice? If you want to fly an expensive aircraft that you can't travel with your 'large'ish' Mate, some baggage and fuel for a reasonble distance trip, no one is stopping anyone. No one is looking to ban the aircraft you already have. I can't understand why some of you are against it when it doesn't affect you at all, you're happy with the choices you have, that's awesome, enjoy, this change won't impact you. Most Americans I speak to agree that 600kg LSA are not suitable for them, and theres a reason that the next size up are the biggest sellers/most used there. I will be meeting 4 Americans of note in the light aircraft industry/EAA later in the week for a few days, and this is on the table for discussion, and I note that a couple of them are 'large'ish' gentlemen ..
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    I have at no point in time suggested anywhere or supported an increase in stall speed, I am absolutely for a standardised stall speed regardless of weight, so I'm not sure what your platform is about there .... .. and no, you can not include serious crash protection without increases in weight. Other than some tube steel high wings, most planes I have looked over are going to kill you in any reasonable incident, and plenty of evidence of it. the issue is their desperation to make a reasonable offering of payload in a tightly restricted weight class. Your unltimate safety comes in around 10th place, if considered at all. 600kgs is fine in Europe, I even had a short ass, 55kg Dutchman tell me that there was no need for more, even less was fine, and yet just yesterday, I had a 110 kg American, exactly twice the weight of the Dutchman, telling me the LSA weight is out of his reach as an viable option. And of course what hasn't been mentioned is that the extra weight allows for far cheaper, and proven, auto conversion engines such as Viking and Aeromomentum. ... and that is a biggy in reducing the costs
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    That is utterly reliant on the structure around you that you're crashing in, but anyway, I answered Bruce's post, with a comparitive example, that seem to contend that a heavier plane automatically meant higher stall speeds, that is not true. It is true that there are compromises, a heavier plane with more wing area to maintain stall speed will likely be slower and use more fuel. All I want is to see an increase in weight so as to add load plates in corners, and a roll bar, and a few other items that would make construction cheaper. How many more pilots and pax are going to die, paraplegic, head injuries, be trapped in low wings with fuel dripping around them etc because they wont put a 5kg roll bar in..
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    It's a simple case of range, and then where are you going to charge it? You won't get one hour out of the current balance of weight and power, and by one hour I mean from the shed back to the shed with a little safety margin, so 40 to 45 mins actually in the air. Add more battery, and the extra power to lift it etches into the range expotentially, double the battery weight and likely you will go the same distance as with half. Charging then will be some 12 to 14 hours from a typical 240V outlet in a hanger/shed, it's not like a car where you drive to an established charger and charge in 40 to 60 minutes. Though if you have 380V 3 phase available, you can knock that down to 3 or 4 hours with what's called a "Wall Charger". I charge my Tesla in 9 to 10 hours on my wall charger, but that's 70 KWh battery pack, light plane would be 20 to 25 KWh So, you're going to fly for 40 mins, come back and put it on charge for 12 to 14 hours, hope you're close to home, because your'e not going to leave it there on charge and come back next week for a flight, you will come back the next day just to take it off charge. It's do'able, just messy and inconveniant. However, a motor glider is a real possibility .......
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    I disagree with the statement, as first is obviously has to do with wing loading/area/flaps etc A Cessna 172 at almost 4 times the weight, stalls at a lower speed than a Rutan VaruEzy. No one is arguing that overall lighter is better, but, secondly, I contend very strongly that I can build a far safer aircraft, i.e. crash structure, with the addition of a little weight, 650 to 700 would be great. I have always maintained that 600 is too light for LSA for a couple of 'Large Gentlemen', fuel and baggage, especially in Yankland.
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    Ahh yes, was wondering about Mabel. You certainly have reason to get into it now to get it out of the way.
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    Well done Mark, I know how long you have been chomping at the bit for it, but the anxiety has only just begun!
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    The sky is a fluid through which we can swim. (Thanks Shirley).
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    Irrelevant, no one reads the manual. The sky is a liquid through which we can swim.
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    Can't help you there Mate, but may I suggest a Toyota KR 1.0 instead? Although not a stock item in Australia, the Yaris came with a 1.3 and 1.5 4cylinder here, they are in just about every other country in the world, and at least 2 doing kits for them. http://www.aeromomentum.com/am10.html
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    No, LSA is cheap flying, didn't you get the memo .......
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    Wow, that's awesome!
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    Just a Diamond in the rough ...
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    Sloper, what happened to this project Mate?
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    No, it runs just fine.
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    Glad to see yaw still at it P47, looks great, keep going!
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    Of course, just not sure of the breakdown of "missed" meaning sentiment, or like the badly aimed coathanger my Missus threw at me last week .... ?
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    ... and they dared to stand and call them "Loonies" .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_shift_hypothesis
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    Takes up a whole half closet for a half dozen plane plan sets, I can carry those same half dozen plane designs on a USB that fits in my money pocket ... and mice don't eat it! I got one set of plans here that has been photocopied so many times some of the numbers are entirely unreadable too, besides having a mix of inches and metric measurements ..... Of course with 3D plans you can zoom in, rotate, ghost, the entire plane and see how parts actually are supposed to fit. But anyway, the point was of course that CAD and paper don't build planes, people do. They are merely storage systems for your design. Sure, some software can do extra like FEA etc, but with the years and money it takes to aquire those skillsets, it's easier for me to simply farm it out. I do use file export functions (.dxf) straight to suit some CNC functions such as laser cutting as well. Thanks Clinton, glad to see you and a few others still around here ?
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