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    For those who subscribe to that, which is fair enough, but they should also resist complaining about the cost because unless people try, then nothing will change.
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    Hmmm, maybe, but I just went and read 5 reports, 4 say "Australian Region", and one says "Australian Regional". So is the 5th one correct or did they misinterpret region, or vice versa?
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    There are a number of bolt on belt drives for sale Bruce, and reasonably priced. People's attempts sometimes fail for a reasonably simple reason, the failure to understand that engine's 'pulse', they slow down, and then re accelerate every cylinder's cycle, so the crankshaft doesn't turn at one constant speed, besides flexing, while the propeller wants to and does continue at one speed. It is this fight that causes the bulk of the issues. Allowing them to run at their separate speeds, such as flexible drive or one way clutch between them, goes a long way to resolving many of the seen issues. I once resolved an issue with a large solidly mounted, single cylinder engine driving a hydraulic pump that was constantly tearing out the fiber drive isolators, by mounting it using rubber engine mounts. They were positioned specifically so that the engine pulses would rotate the engine back and forward around the crank's centerline (like many cars), hopefully dissipating the driveshock and TVs. It worked so apparently it did. They originally didn't use rubber mounts for fear the movement would tear the drives, a valid thought, but it was what was doing the damage. More cylinders and more flywheel weight go somewhat to lessening TV problems as well.
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    The words "in Australia" relative to where the training school will be established are suspiciously missing in all those reports.
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    You can run the 4 cylinder case with just 2 pots, obviously a little heavier. There is a book and articles around for building a proper 2 pot VDub, as well as parts suppliers. A 250cc MX motor with the gearbox hacked off (in minutes) that you can pick up with one hand would be my choice. Better still a 500, harder to get though. Plenty at bike wreckers dirt cheap. 50hp flat out but an easy 30 at reduced revs for long life. No difference in power, but the 500 does it easier. Simple 520 chain drive reduction setup. That's 2 stroke btw, stay away from the 4 strokes. If you need more, then look at jetski engines, plenty of used ones around in large range of sizes and hp. As mentioned above, go to the Goat website for ideas and free plans. the Affordaplane plans are around also. Look at the Ison Airbike too.
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    Dockhead.
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    I can only but ask about the landlords. I'm not sure what you mean by hives going to 'big honey', as far as I know Phil would never sell up, or sell out. Honey makers still get buzz out of life on Straddie
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    Correct, good ones are worth their weight, and good ones are cheap too, but you need to shop around. Containers are the way to go, the whole world is set up for them. Best service I have ever had, a Can-Do mob with well detailed and valid charges, were from here .. Shiprite International
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    You Lucky Bastard.
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    Yup. Older planes and other vehicles are often "rare" and NOT "collectable" for very good reason.
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    Both seriously hurt apparently. SkyRunner
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    Hold my beer .....
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    Sorry, correction. That's 4 that have gone down, not 3. Independents who fly them (normally) say they fly nice, I think it's the type of flying people are attempting that they are pushed as being suitable for that's causing the grief.
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    And another one bites the dust Seaplane sinks in water off Sanibel Island So from about 10 actually flying, 3 have gone down, thankfully no one reported hurt in this incident. Maybe the pilots should revert to just flying them normally and not pretending they are 'Jetskis of the air'.
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    Me in mine shot from the back of a bus on the weekend in the mountains just North of Guang Yuan, Sichuan Province ...
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    The issue with basalt, which is lava, is it can have discrepancies in fiber size and is hard for the manufacturer to grade with consistency. Most strands are almost as good as Carbon Fiber at a fraction of the price, while the weaker strands are down near E glass, so the 'weakest link in the chain' comes into play, in truth it depends on the supplier, the layup, and in what application. Likely for those reasons you will never see it used at Airbus or Boeing. It is certainly an alternate to S Glass for most applications though. If you made a plane from it then you would get the scare monger experts jumping in to tell everyone how they are going to crash into a kindergarten if you use it, I've seen exactly that already. China has plenty by the way, there's a large factory nearby in Chengdu. Sichuan Aerospace Tuoxin Basalt Industrial Co., LTD
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    I guess the Dummy thinks he's driving a Ford Galaxy.
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    There is no servicing on a Tesla, it's got no engine, but after spending the weekend driving around the back mountains 500kms from home always with 'where the next charge station will be' hanging in the back of your mind, I reckon the dummy will shite himself when the computer shows no chargers within a million miles and the charge bars are on red....
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    You may have triggered a memory cell, I may have been told last time it's for a simulator.
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    Because my fiberglass guy had a roll of E glass and epoxy ready to do another customers job and I said whip me up a square so I can experiment with it. E glass is popular in China, S glass not so much. Numbers of craft have been done in Vinylester also, not that I would. Personally I would use basalt except it's one of those products tainted by myths, and you know how accepting of myths aviators are ....
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    Not mine, not sure I would want it to be either. I will chase it up though, see what's going on locally.
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    Ours get to 300 occasionally, often around 280. I don't know why it was going only around 250 that day. Was a bit misty, might have been a visual distance issue. Funniest thing was the 2nd time I rode the Shanghai Maglev, it accelerated all the way up to 399 and wavered between there and 395, but never actually touched 400. What was funny was half the carriage, including me, had their cameras and phones aimed anxiously waiting for it to turn over to 400! I swear the driver did it on purpose!
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    Not when I'm paying for it now and someone's paying for it later and I won't have a show of getting what I spend now back. Was at the fiberglass company today picking up a piece of E Glass for testing, and noticed the high wing something that I have seen there before was being prepped ...
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    and meanwhile in my real world in my city ...
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    The Morgan is of reasonable weight, has a small efficient tapered wing with large flaps, flat bottom, there's plenty of them out there, they are based on the KR2 also with proven history/flight characteristics, and Morgan owners seem more than happy. What's your experience exactly? Can you support your disputing claim to the manufacturer's with some facts? Everyone should always be on their toes with manufacturer's claims, but when you call them out you need to back up your claims also. Carbon Fiber is certainly the most efficient, at a large cost though, but fiberglass isn't. Wood is still 2nd only to CF (and even then balsa wood is still the strongest laminate for composites), and aluminium is still a better weight to strength offering than fiberglass, as is rag/tube. There's good reason the big 3 kit planes, Vans, Zenith and Sonex, choose aluminium. Lets not even mention Cessna.
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