turboplanner

.....Cappy who kept getting distracted, and Cappy realising his peril refocused and pushed the stick forward, climbing out from under the ERW and righting the aorcraft as he made altitude. He brought it down on the strip as light as a feather.

This aircraft was about to become the backbone of AUF. its maintenance simply to walk around the engine with an oil can when you felt like it and ..................

......CASA's life a misery.

Both fliers had The Right Stuff; they were expert whiners.

Not many people know that Turnbull & Rudd wrote a sarcastic video clip after a CASA DAME knocked Turnbull back on the grounds of colours and Rudd for his voice box. Rudd had exploded into Mandarin when asked to cough and the DAME felt that might be difficult to understand on the Radio.

Here's the clip in its later form where a musical was built around it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljm9CDRAhMQ

They wounded CASA to the point where CASA inported ace FOI Blake from the UK. He'd had experience dealing with poms and it was felt he could round up Turnbull and Rudd, but ...........................

...cut out for this type of manouvre. Most of them have joined MOCAS, an association where people can have a moan at anyone they choose, the most popular being .............

....."out to lunch" on a couple of cylinders, cylinders now needed because a gust of wind had flipped the aircraft upside down and it was arcing down to the ground, the corners of Cappy's moustache whipping dangerously close to his eyes. The corrugated iron fuselage was making oil can noises and.................

...........his windfall.

Cappy thought for a while, realised he could make money on them and bought three.

He then determinedly pushed the mulga ("Pushing the Mulga" was to become an aviation standard for years to come) stick to WOT, and the aircraft lurched into the air.

Astute readers will note that the aircraft has no name. Seamus Track, Like Michael O'Reilly had that inbred fault of incompletion. O'Reilly of course invented the telephone years before Alexander Graham Bell. His mistake was that he only made one, and he rang and rang all day and never got an answer.

The thousands of AUF members present dreamed of starting airlines with this aircraft, maybe even conducting International flights to New Zealand.

Then the airctraft demonstrated one of its ...................................

.........dolphins to go into a frenzy, biting every leg they could find, with the Mayor of Monkey Mia calling to them, saying "NICE Dolphins, nice dolphins...OWWW you XXXX!"

Everyone ran out of the water bleeding, and Turbo and Cappy had to quickly perform the First Aid they learned on the Khyber Pass to stop the bleeding.

Eventually everyone settled down.

Cappy, who was renowned in his industry for his upbeat (some would say stretched) approach to new ventures announced that when they had soaked all the parts in molasses for three weeks until all the rust dissolved, they found they had an aircraft which weighed two tonnes. Cappy had applied to RAA for a weight extension, and RAA had confirmed the CASA was considering it. Happy murmuiring broke out among the crowd with one of them suggesting they may be able to carry passengers for reward too.

Eventually the speeches were over and it was time to start the engine and fly. After some coughs and belches of smoke the engine settled down into a rumble, and Turbo announced Cappy would be the pilot, since One Track had been overcome with emotion (he had found the original test notes leading up to the first flight).

Cappy's hair was sitting flat like a dog about to be forced into the bath, belying the tight smile on his face, but he couldn't get out of it.

He pushed the polished Mulga throttle handle...................................

............The Lang Hancock Exhibition, which has no souvenir shop and takes six months in a caravan to see, or ................

...., and this would turn the Aviation world on it's head. 

Western Australia was founded on the first day of June 1829, and Seamus O'Reilly Track was Citzen No 23, arriving on horseback from Sydney.

Seamus was a lateral thinker, and one of the first places he visited was the Noongar community where he went through the dump collecting various pieces of scrap; an earlier form of things the great Bunnings sells today. By June 27 he had built an aircraft,  and flew it north, discovering Geraldton, which had no fuel until it became a town in 1850. So he had to walk home, leaving the evidence behind, thus being beaten to the record of first flight by the Wright Bros in the US. However, what most people don't know is that the Geraldton locals towed it round and round the Community trying to make it fly, but of course without the prop turning, it couldn't reach flying speed, so they left it at the dump with all the other junk.

Of course the Track family knew that old Seamus was the first person not only to fly, but to make Geraldton from Perth without a GPS or compass. It wasn't until Jack Track, in 1948, on a Mining trip through Geraldton came across the old dump and...........................

.......certain members of his family as A's and once when Turbo asked what the acronym meant OT gave him a strange look and said "Aviators" in such a way that Turbo didn't know whether he meant it or not, but OT still refers to the QTPALQRSTU, and plenty of peope nod in recognition.

Turbo hit the phone to research the matter, and found the amazing truth, that would rock the WA establishment when.......................

....Figueria de Foz.

Figueria de Foz was a place to get away from and young MIG studied aeronautical Engineering at the University married a Slovetsky in Moscow and had a child who followed in his father's footsteps and went on the design fighter aircraft for the Motherland.

The restless MIG toured Europe and adopted the nick name Miggy because he hadn't been doing so well with the chicks and finished up in England, where the pommy chicks will go after anyone, went to the Admiralty and said he wanted to discover Australia and the Sandwich Islands (never realising he was going to become one), and as we have seen given a new name and an old coal barge and sent on his way.

What is not generally conceded by the British is that Captain Cook had misread magnetic for true on his map and finished up jammed on a reef in South America, which led to the English term "Off to a rocky start", and from then on, as there was only one way to go the Australia from there the route was followed by all Australian Captains, even though it was the biggest zig zag in the world and........

3 hours ago, RFguy said:

geez you lot.... doom... gloom

 

battery wont catch fire if installed and operated correctly. 

 

My doctor told me once in a candid moment that he often told people who were slack in taking their medications to do what the prescription says or they would die. Interesting in the parallels of non compliance in recreational flying I asked  what happened when they didn't. "They die" he said and went on with what he'd been doing. I've always been very particular since then.

You're a bit broad with your battery advice. That may be true in some cases, but apart from the fact that usually no one tells you how to install them or how to operate them successfully.

I bought a $450 phone last week which came with no instructions and no charger - good example.

Have a google about the battery sizes and issues with cars and you'll get a good idea of what you might get with an aircraft pack and why just the removal and installation cost is so high, and that's before checking that the battery installation is correct for type and fitting, and before delivering full operating instructions.

Portugese, remnants of the prolific Cook Tree in Australia. Not Many people know that Captain James Cook's name was really Miguel Sanchez. The Admiralty, sticklers for appearance had given him the more English name of James Cook. A hundred and fifty years later someone in Holywood was doing research for a script, came across it and .........................................................................

我们沿着我们永远不会回来的轨道前进......

9 hours ago, jackc said:

Well, aircraft dump many thousands of litres of fuel from the sky……not hard to make an immediate decision to quickly set a course to battery dumping in an unpopulated area. Fire proof battery containment will only last a short time, enough to hopefully save pilot/PAX AND aircraft, they then need to deal with an off airport landing. 

If you're on fire, the WHOLE aircraft is going to drop with you in it without any control of the location so the idea is still sound, because you're going top be calling a Mayday.

54 minutes ago, BrendAn said:

most ice cars have had just one serpentine belt to drive everything for the last 20 years or more. its nothing to get one hundred thousand km out of them.

They now use them for more things hence more pulleys. In the case I mentioned I was replacing a 230,000 km belt, but the ones I've shredded in the past were due to things like bearing failures. 

2 hours ago, RFguy said:

Battery fire risk is extremely low if  properly designed, derated, sourced and qualified. 

especially you are you willing to sacrifice 20% in capacity to have a battery that will never catch fire from a maximal capacitor/weight type.  (LIFEPO4 versus Lithium Polymer). 
But Lithium batteries with new elecrodes, etc are much much better
They get a bad rap from the bad old days, and all the sh1tbox batteries used in scooters etc which are often the factory seconds......

 

I'd suggest no one can afford to sacrifice 20% of range at present, given that the primary users seem to be operating on a per circuit basis that's giving them a little less than the air time they need for a 1 hour lesson.

On 17/03/2023 at 12:04 PM, jackc said:

Fly an electric aircraft designed where battery pack is mounted at C of G into a compartment at bottom of the fuselage.

IF you get a battery fire situation, you simply jettison the pack and you then become PIC of a…….Glider! 

Rather take my chances that way, than  burning to death…….

That's a very good idea; removes the inherent risk.

All we really need for BEA is a breakthough in battery design to get the range required and either something like you're suggesting, or a breakthrough with thermal runaway.

On 17/03/2023 at 3:18 PM, RFguy said:

 batteries are to electric as fuel is to ICE

motor controller for electric  is a carb/thottle body  is to an ICE

a brushless motor is to electric as the pistons and cylinders are to an ICE

not sure where fuel vapourization, fuel contamination, fouled plugs, worn rings, burned valves, worn bearings and lobes, leaking gaskets, broken thru bolts, CO2 poisoning , selecting wrong tank, mixture controls, detonation, bad leads, faulty magnetos , intermittant starter solenoids    

not sure where they all fit in to electric, in analogy.

 

 

To work that out would start with a comparison analysis based on real facts in the application.

Your trail of ICE issues are a bit like what was being used by promoters on the auto industry about three years, but the average car engine goes usually goes to the crushing plant with plenty of hours left, the killer issues being accidents, electrical, suspension, rust, cost of DPF replacement exceeding the car value.

A good example is what's driven me nuts for a few months. A lot of alternators on cars now have sprag clutches. If you hear a "tinkle" when you start the car, welcome to the beginning of the end of the sprag clutch. Once upon a time if a sprag clutch had been fitted, we could have unplugged the alternator terminals, slackened the belt pulleys and slipped the V Belt off, undone three nuts, and put it on the bench.

If it needed a new V Belt (i.e. 30 - 40 years old) you just threw the old one in the bin and flicked on a new one.

Today we have the serpentine belt which the Millenial engineers use for just about anything on the car with usually about five pulleys, all different buried under the engine around the fan shroud with half a spanner space. Not only that, but to be fail, the engineers have the power steering and some other pump their own belt with four pulleys, which prevents the big one from being taken out................... Today I'm in the spanner invention business.

All of these except the DPF lso occur on electric, and despite the same promoters touting service-free cars, a lot are towed to dealerships for extended stays with electric issues. The electrics issues in both ICE and BEV are not usually the foundation system, but electronics and equipment which stops doing what it's supposed to do from windscreen wipers, windows, ABS to cooling fans to air conditioning.

The replacement sprag clutches come from ..............................China. Just heard the first tinkle from the new one yesterday.

...........trained Turbo as a roof insulation installer and had taught him Mandarin so they could import cheap Chinese Labor.

"The little XXXX pulled out at the last minute so the deal didn't go ahead; I don't know why" Kevin said.

XI was very familiar with Turbo who had broght food to the masses in China, with his thousands of  Colonel Flied and Clunchy restaurants with the huge photos of Turbo with the wig false cheeks false paunch; just like old Colonel Sanders who was actually a 22 year old dude from Georgia.

XI had never trusted Kevin, he didn't know why, but he wasn't going to change stream now especially after all the parties on the Spratleys with Turbo and Cappy liberally plying ................

......CASA recruits.

CASA had become sick of people who couldn't read an ERSA, but managed to criticise everything CASA did, and the senior management blamed the new recruits for all the criticism.

Turbo, always keen to get students engaged started the day with:

Al Pasha Madashi, could you please read the entry for Armidale.

There was a silence, then Cing Huk Lee jumped in and read the details fluently ( since all Chinese had received urgent instructions from President XI to map and learn every road, creek and gully in Australia.

Mahatma Singh interjected with "OH! Noo, Nooo, noo, noo; Armidale is not being there today at this time ....................................

...with: Do you know something we don't, and Turbo handed over a 30 page Affidavit writtem by a local school teacher, and 2 hours of video of a somewhat unconventional party.

The Journalist gasped after he'd read it and............   

6 hours ago, trailer said:

Pretty sure Aerochute  powered paragliders are RAAus, any other paraglider and powered paraglider is SAFA. Confusing and inconsistent system of self regulation however you look at it.

Australia is a free country; anyone can set up to do just about anything; businesses have never operated in neat rows, and if you want to fly powered prachute or weightshift that's more determined by the location of instructors.

20 hours ago, Thruster88 said:

This could be the first loss of trust in an electric aircraft in oz. The electric version of fuel starvation. 

 

 

11/3/2023	Lilydale	VIC	Pipistrel	Alpha	Pipistrel/Emrax	EEM60MVLC (Electric)	STATUS: Under review OCCURRENCE DETAILS SUBMITTED TO RAAUS: the aircraft was conducting circuit o...
STATUS: Under review OCCURRENCE DETAILS SUBMITTED TO RAAUS: the aircraft was conducting circuit operations on when, on the climb of the 4th circuit at 600ft AGL, an instrument display warning appeared 'Power control lever failure' which resulted in complete loss of power. The pilot pitched for a glide and a turn back, attempted a reboot cycle of all switches off, pulled the power control breaker, powered on all systems in sequence but the same warning appeared. They repeated this one more time, but power control was not restored. The pilot didn't feel they had enough height and speed to reach the aerodrome/runway, so made an uneventful emergency landing in a field to the immediate North of the runway.

Good to see the minute by minute management.

Same thing happens a lot with electric power tools when they're working hard. 

8 minutes ago, facthunter said:

They don't know (or care) where this movement came from and they are beholden to CASA as to what is allowed. Originally "they" talked of parallel paths. No monopoly. 762 Kgs was CASA's suggestion. All the people running AUF were active pilots not expecting to go to the moon one day. SAFE AFFORDABLE Flying by developing skills and owner serviced available.. At this stage no one seems to know what the final goal is. Meanwhile WE wait and wait and get older.  Nev

A couple of meetings and that would all be over, but there just isn't the skill or experience stepping forward to drive that; the last lot ran away fast.

46 minutes ago, jackc said:

Members of a limited company who regulate us all, AND then ask for donations…..

Sorry, I will hold my opinion until the day I die, reckon I have ten years left to get all my illegal aviation sh1t done 🙂

I thought you were going to change it?