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Reward yourself with say 4 hours on Mabel, allows you one hour on the Rans. No, no, 4 ON MABEL, and one on Rans. That is literally how I control myself in the same situation.

I've got one of our other employees coming in to help me tomorrow, I'm going to get him to rill some of the tubes, there's 16 tubes to a pack, that's 8000 holes. I'm going to wait till he gets through the first pack and see the look on his face when I point out the other 7 or 8 packs ....

Well it was 2057.142 actually .... I had to go and buy a really small drill bit to do that 0.142 hole.

Today I grabbed 4 of my 6 meters lengths of 6061 square tube, and pre-drilled the holes in them to start on the front half of the fuse. I had already lasered and folded a couple of 1 meter long drilling jigs, and away I went ... ... Yes, I de-burred them all. As a few hours dragged on, I thought, what the heck is taking so long? Then Then I grabbed a calculator: 6 meters divided by 35mm x 12 = 2057 holes! Dang! That's what took so long! My 70 ... oops, I mean my 2024 plates arrived today too ..

We're generally not that serious around here Craig, I wouldn't lose any sleep over it, but send me money if it makes you feel better.

Nah, just rice and blankets.

You should try China! Only difference is the payouts here are of reasonable and logical size fitting for the losses./costs incurred

Damn, I wanted to read that post again.

I have no problem with adverts, I appreciate the real world, it's the way adverts are presented, as mentioned, is what makes the difference.

Yeah, well bad luck, get a class 2 medical (whatever). Want a weight increase for the benefit of the recreational majority, not a few others.

Maximum stall speed and 2 Pax resolves most of that. You want heavier, then it's going to be slower as you'll need more wing to meet the stall limit.

Regardless of model, the point was that 0.020" is not "thin" in the light aircraft business, relevant to proper engineering of course. I don't think I can help you with speed Mate, likely faster than a Jab and Sav though, but not a lot, be happy if we get 120~130mph. cruise on 100hp. The aim is budget price, not performance, to get people in the air in a simple, very stable, safe craft. Easy to repair as well, even major damage. I'll have a finished plane within 3 months if I continue to heal and slowly increase my hours at the factory from about 3 to 4 hours per day now, then it's likely off to the USA for setup and test flights, I suggest you just sit back and watch the next month's happenings as at least the outside appearances will take shape rapidly. Systems/controls of course take just as long or longer. Still a bit up in the air about engines, I have multiple choices. If not my own or another one I am associated with, then at the top of the list is the Aeromomentum. Mr AM is keen. In real actual hours, the rear fuse so far is less than a lazy weekend's effort. I lasered and folded part 1 of the rollcage yesterday, went to fit it this morning but the rivet holes didn't line up. I know why, and back at my computer now fixing it for another set to be lasered this afternoon, if I stop talking to you and get it done in time ?

Yes, of course 0.5mm, or 0.020" for the Ludites. You know Zeniths, Savannah and many others use a lot of 0.4mm/0.016"? I believe the Salder Vampire even used 0.3mm/0.012" n some areas. About the only place thicknesses such as 0.75mm are used are wing and HS spars , and as doublers in various critical places, again, usually wing and HS spars.

Did you know "Pop" is actually a brand? Some 100 rivets hold the Dorsal Fin to the fuse, 50 hold the VS to the Dorsal Fin, both with redundancy. All those rivets could fail and it still can not separate from the fuse. The material along the rivet lines both at the Dorsal Fin and VS attach totals 1.5mm thick and are 'C' channels. You are correct, it isn't complete yet.

Not sure yet, have some ideas. It has it's design roots in the 701, being that if the 701 didn't exist, then neither would the Savannah from which I based my basics on. Believe it or not. Also, like a Sav, it's in 0.05mm, your 701 longerons and verticals are smaller, but all 1mm I believe. I think it looks "strong as an ox" due to there being no lightweight holes in the longerons, stringers or gussets. They will come later, but didn't want to go to the trouble now just to find out later I had to change things.

What's a "cassette"?

I can't seem to find time at the factory the last few days, house do this, house do that, but managed a couple of hours today. The VS looks a lot better with some more rivets .. And a whole lot better sitting where it's supposed to sit.

That might go hand in hand with the dramatic increase of airline pilots being employed since 2010? Are those airline Pilots the increase in membership? Are they actually flying light aircraft, or just interested in all facets of flying? Has PPruNe forum increased in membership in the same period? Will Robin arrive in time to save Batman from the Riddler?

Yeah well they tried putting electric cars parked doing nothing videos up, but no one watched them. Just as many petrol cars catch fire, especially recently as packaging becomes tighter and more systems involved, they merely aren't the center of attention at the moment. https://www.google.com/search?q=Ferrari+fires&newwindow=1&sxsrf=ACYBGNTmkvfwHAiC9T9XpZlZ37lm_zHiIA:1575084384938&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiYlIXK_pDmAhUUGDQIHdU6BR4Q_AUoAnoECDYQBA&biw=1024&bih=710

Bark once for yes, twice for no ... lol! Proud of my Daughter who can sign in 2 sign languages (there's more than one)

Ha, I read that as in Jaws: "I think you gunna need a bigger boat!" .. There's a thousand per box. I thought I had another box to hand but I didn't, well I did, but I didn't realise those were 2mm longer dang narn it. Anyway, grabbed 2 more boxes on the way home. Things are conveniently close when you live in a small country town of only 600,000.

Checked out the dorsal fin/VS today. First the Fin... Then we'll need a VS. Notice the rivet box lower right hand corner is near empty .. And stuck them together Excuse that it looks a bit wavy, that's because I just ran out of rivets and only had a few to hold it together. You gotta cook the rivets a whole lot longer .. I spent a bit of time and money on that, so not throwing it in the rubbish bin. And just call it a "bin" like everyone else would ya.

An arty farty shot. All the rivets were pulled by this stage.

Years back I rented a house next to a deaf couple, also brilliant lip readers, was amazing. ... but oh boy did we howl in laughter when we heard the phone ringing out (landline)!! Never did understand why they had a phone, maybe for emergency. Mobile phones must be so great for them now, vibrate for notifications, and message family, friends etc.

So today I added the rest of the vertical stringers, and introduced the top skin assembly to the lower skin assembly. Then I introduced the side skins Savannah builders will recognise the design concept, and thanks to Member 'Kyle Communications' for some of the info that help it happen. I went to see if the tail cone was all ok, then horrified to realise I couldn't put it on as the cone overlap inside the fuselage was larger than the tapered finishing end of the fuse! But was all ok, I managed to lift the corners of the side skins and slip it in, phew, I had in my head already started designing it! Well not much I can do further with the tail end until my 2024 sheets arrive in the next few days for the HS spars. But now the rear fuse has some form, I can get accurate measurements for the roll bar and look at creating the cabin area forward of the roll bar now. I already have a plan and basic design, I just wanted accurate proportions to work from. I spent about 5 hours on this today, the pre-matched holes are just amazing in improving assembly speed, I even took a video!