turboplanner

12 hours ago, onetrack said:

....had pedal-assistance for the propeller when the Coleman Lantern ran low on kero; was fabricated from all the ply offcuts from the Men's Shed, that was only 300M from bulls house; and was covered with surplus fabric from the Gumly CWA Sewing Club. Instruments were deemed unnecessary, not only to keep costs down, but to keep the design simple.

 

Bull advertised this was true "seat-of-the-pants" flying, when he posted the plans for $65 on Gumtree, indicating in the ad that anyone could get airborne for a fraction over $500 - excluding the cost of the Coleman Lantern, of course.

It was presumed by bull that any adventurous soul who wanted to construct one of his Flying Machines, was already an outdoorsy-type, and already possessed a working Coleman Lantern.

 

The beauty of the design, said bull in his ad, was that when you landed on last light, you already had the lighting you needed to make camp for the night, in the shape of the power unit.

Sales of the plans exceeded bulls expectations by about 1500%, and he was hard-pressed to keep up with the demand.

 

Then, one day, an ominous-looking official letter arrived in his mailbox (because bull still used snail mail and telegrams for daily communication, and he was on first-name terms with his postman).

Bull picked the letter up and studied it. It had a Canberra return address on it, and he opened it fearfully, fully expecting.....

 

  ....a blast, or at least a Strict Liability threat ending with "and as you know we have deep pockets",  but it was from Damian from CASA who said what a wonderful concept bull had come up with, and at CASA they were sick of pushy overweight people pushing their agendas, and would like to fast track bull's concept as the hallmark for grass roots flying.

As one of the pioneers of grass roots flying in Australia, bull was moved to tears and ...........

........"Flying Machine for the Common Man." It was powered by a No 5 Coleman Farmer's Lantern..............

If you're going to spend extra money, I'd recommend Upset training before Low Level.

Low level is something you choose to do, and like IFR requires extra preparation; Just about every time you see a fatal accident report where someone has his a power line you can bet the power line wasn't above 500 feet. When you get down below the trees, there's training required to be able to judge the space required to climb back over them. Upset training may save you from a mistake.

.......it was no surprise when .............

....serious drawings of flying machines, said by some to be second only to those of Leonardo Da Vinci.

Someone else said that bull had sold them all for the price of a beer one afternoon at a pub in Tasmania called ....................

.....and these photos are exclusive to the NES. The research team had found that if you wrap a fish skin around the aircraft, by a process similar to solar cells, the skin produces electricity; the NES had found the battery power alternative breakthrough so many people had tried for. In fact it produced so far  power that the electric motors tended to get hot, but that was easily fixed by diving down to the ocean or a lake like water bombers and cooling them off.

These aircraft had unlimited range in daylight (but quit at sundown), and the power was free, so aorfares could be reduced and ...................

6 hours ago, Kyle Communications said:

Turbo ...760 is now legal...just not the nuts and bolts paperwork and of course this has spanned 1 day so no one can find out any information about this rego until RAA are back from holidays or The Flying Auctioneer pops up here and tells us. So you like all of us will have to wait until we get more information. The rest is just discussion and presumption and bantering....stop getting your knickers in a knot and settle petal 🙂

 

Yes, I get it; you know it's not legal yet nut you're interpreting it as legal.

2 hours ago, Thruster88 said:

Turbo, that information as you know is in the POH,  pilot operating handbook or AFM, aircraft flight manual. It is not the job of RAAus to provide this information. RFguy has studied many such POH or AFM's including the the Beech23 which he describes as a well sorted aircraft.😁  

Well you would hope he can, but that wasn't the point.

The point is that someone came in posted for the first time, indicating 760 kg was now legal and the first aircraft had been registered, and the thread descended into various WB discussions without anyone taking the time to find out whether 760 kg had been made legal, or whether the post was just a hopeful beat up.

17 minutes ago, RFguy said:

PMCARTHY- "A couple of fatties in the seats might move the CoG foreword a bit and allow more luggage."

- might be the case if wing / CoL is behind the seats. But, in the case of wing being FORE of the seats, a couple of fatties would make the CG situation worse. 

As usual W&B must be considered to ensure the aircraft is being flown within the CG limits,  as to  maintain tailplane/elevator  authority for various manouvers - and to ensure a reliable recovery from a spin and/or reduce likelihood of spin entry,

 

Thanks Mark on the Class G clarification.  Hope to have some comment from the The Flying Auctioneer .
 

Is there some sort of problem in getting such critical information from RAA?

...........poducing interesting results in the treatment of herpes and as a pre-dinner cocktail.

The Pilchard mix was also under test as a high temperature lubricant where early trials suggest will protect both pistons and thru bolts if a tube is squeezed in with every tank fill. Soon there were thousands ..............

1 hour ago, clouddancer said:

I think there would be an announcement from RAAus if they could register 760 kg MTOW aircraft already.

Mid 2022 is what has been provided in emails by RAAus

Depeds what information is provided; if it says you can register a 760 kg aircaft from mid 2022 that's a confirming statement, but they don't appear to have any authority to do that and in any case the information we have from a post on this site is that an airctaft has been registered (past tense). Who is correct?

1 minute ago, red750 said:

As mentioned in my last reply, TheFlying Auctioner has advised me that his Aquila was registered with RAAus, a fortnight ago.

That's interesting.

.....CapTrakTurbine Wines with a Wish. There was an early crisis when Cappy was in charge of granting wishes, and it was realised that he was inclined to be too precise in matching the wish he was asked for, but ...................

.........That person.

He went to the fish and chip shop, opened his pack which contained one fifth of a fish, and said "I want three fish and three huge mulloway dropped down covering him with slime. That wasn't exactly what he wanted, but it would do; he had the power.

He started selling tiny parts of his clothing and soon was driving LHD Cadillac Escolade with mag wheels, and .................

So the 760 kg has now been formally approved by CASA?

.......moment of Revelation. All these years of running people down, gin-riddled orgies, and not washing or brushing his teeth like his mother had told him to do had taken their toll, as The Voice told him his history (OT was guessing but it was amazing how many points he made which caused the crown-headed Cappy to start with recognition. Finally Cappy was sobbing and begging for forgiveness.

By this time Cappy thought he was talking to God; surely no one else would know all his sins. It maded sense that God, used to talking to people in the Northern Hemisphere would appear head down to someone in the Southern Hemisphere, and riddled with guilt, he asked God to forgive his sins.

OT seizing his opportunity said "I will bless you my son, but as you confess these sins you must promise never to do these things again and always be kind to Western Australians. 

This was a mistake by OT, and most of us would have realised by the WA accent that it was OT extracting these promises, but Cappy was so disorientated that he didn't pick up on it, and OT made the most of it, extracting promises that no one had managed to get out of Cappy before, including "I will never throw up in Turbo's Corvette again", and I will not take donation tins for homeless children.

Finally Cappy said "I only have one wish, and that is for you to take this crown off my head"

"I will, but you must not look back or you will be transformed into a pillar of stone" said OT, and Cappy readily agreed, so OT lashed out with a boot and kicked the crown off, gounging Cappy's face.

He was so happy that he didn't notice the pain and was careful not to look back, and as he rounded the first corner heading for the local bath house, hairdresser and dentist, OT fell over with laughter and ......................

...........crown given to the winning Fire team had irritated him for years, and this day after a few hours in the BoB with his favourite drink Creme de Menthe under his belt, when the crown was awarded, Loxie threw it high in the air and it came down on the head of ............

1 minute ago, onetrack said:

All current motor vehicles with high levels of electronic technology are not designed to be extensively repaired, that's a thing of the past.

If you have a major electronic failure on a current model vehicle, and it's over about 8 yrs old and it has more than 150,000kms on the clock, it is often scrapped.

If you have a moderate prang which results in a "structural member" being deformed, your vehicle goes in the scrap bin, written off, and declared a Statutory Write Off, unable to be repaired or re-registered anywhere in Australia.

A structural member can be as little as a suspension component. See the advisory booklet, "Damage Assessment Criteria for the Classification of Statutory Write-Offs", it's an eye-opener.

We live in a era where automated manufacturing on a huge scale, and a lack of trained and qualified repair people - along with "unrepairable" styles of manufactured components - simply means todays products, including vehicles, have a short lifespan.

 

or putting it another way, if you use the specified oil andc comply with the service details and procedures you are likely to get the car to 500,000 plus km life cycle, then it all goes in the crusher together. As you said, if you have an accident or mechanical problem it's easy to reach a write off result.

........telling the most amazing jokes just as the competitors lines up for their start. He had the ability to get the crown in the palm of his hand and their cat calls and whistles ...............

8 hours ago, APenNameAndThatA said:

IIRC, Wheels magazine said those engines were no more economical than a normal engine of the same capacity (but a little more powerful). Mercedes tried and failed to produce such an engine. It sort of looks to me like Mazda failed but put the engine into production anyway, if you know what I mean. 

SKYactiv has moved engine technology ahead in several areas:

It introduces compression ignition to petrol-engined cars so a cleaner fuel starting point. The crossover to "diesel" is now blurred with several fuel injections for emissions, and a spark introduced at some point for enhancement as well.

It meets the increased power and torque standards for the class

It lowers NOx and PM even further

It produces a low CO2 output of 90<116g/km

It lowers fuel consumption into the current ballpark

It utilises a pulse-tuned exhaust to drive the turbocharger harder, something which is dear to racers.

Car applications are changing.

Historically if young families wanted to travel interstate cheaply they bought a caravan and hitched it up to a Holden or Falcon. Fuel was cheap, Motels were expensive.

As the cost of fuel rose this model was slowly destroyed and caravan towing moved across to more committed camping type people in 4WDs. That this group now strongly dominates the top vehicle turnover in Australia is surprising, but there it is.

As Holden and Falcon models dropped out of the market the 2 litre market has been getting more and more use in longer distance travel, to the point where cars like Honda Civic can squeeze out a fuel economy on gentle highway travel of up to 4 litres/100 km, so increasingly the affordable interstate holiday trips have switched to low fuel cost and cheap motels.

In that application the 2 litre SKYactiv-X at around 4.6 litres per 100 km, but from Melbourne to Brisbane that's only an out of pocket compared to the Honda of about $20 to $30, so petty cash.

 On the other hand power is now within 14% of a VY Commodore which had a highway fuel cycle of around 9 l/100 km, so the SKYactiv will be pretty much giving the same performance on the holiday trip on about half the fuel.

......prune; all shrivelled, sunburnt, not saying a word, and likely to pass on a dose of the trots if you have lunch at his place. Not many people know, but once, Loxie was the State Champion for the fire hose event where fairies use the old carts on a timed run over 100 metres followed by throwing the sharp end of the hose towards the fire then throwing the other end with the heavy brass thingy to the nearest water, which could be ........

........was Ahlox worth saving? He was just a sorry shadow of the glory days when.......

.....sings. He’s not performing, just singing but the four day growth and body odour bring him undone every time and......

......Skywalker, but ..............