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    Canopy Crack

    AAhhhh yes ...................... the machines tedious, regular, continuous & insatiable need for money (been there done that - a bit like an enjoyment tax in a way)
  2. anything is possible in the real world reminds me when we were all seated on a Qlink Dash at say 5.30 am in the morning - at Brisbane - next announcement was all you bods get off - so it was back to the terminal - Qlink had to fix a flat tyre we didn't grumble - we all thought the experience was a ripper
  3. 0.000081566 % ? increase in popularity (could be some more zero's) .................. a thin margin so far I wonder which pilot thinks which plane is better (both planes have bitten the unwary)
  4. ............. called 'acoustic mirrors' SP
  5. Mr google say F15 - 30600 kg takeoff weight - B17 29700 kg takeoff weight (rubbery numbers no doubt) Proportionally there is lots of solid stuff in the F15 so ........................
  6. there appears to be no emergency chute - just the 1 main chute ? you'd have to be brave to jump out of a perfectly good aeroplane (parachutist) so jumping out of a perfectly good aeroplane with a wing suit might have some better potential appeal in the future - compared to straight parachuting having said that .................... parachuting remains a whole lot more popular
  7. exciting stuff .......... but not for the faint hearted I guess you could call them a glider ............... some would say its a gauranteed descent with little forward component any forum members had any knowlegde or experience in them ? - speed - rate of descent - cost etc etc are there australian wing suit sites for jumping
  8. The first practicable aeroplane - powered by a turboprop - what was it and what date ? Thanks (for instance they were designing the Vickers Viscount about 1945 - power supposed to be a turbo prop ............... first flew about 1948 ?)
  9. Quiet a good NZ resource: https://nzcivair.blogspot.com/2025/08/ New rego - ZK SEX NZ registered: ZK SEX
  10. top hinged doors on the A22 / 32 front hinged doors might fair better ?
  11. So per the video ......... if the windscreen dissapears - then altitude cannot be maintained ? or is that a 'trade off' to save the side doors ? or some other form of trade off ? (don't know)
  12. 4 seats (max) allowed - but 1 pilot and 1 passenger - 2 POB max ............. but whose counting
  13. I can remember asking an instructor to demonstrate a climb / vertical stall turn (don't know the word) The manouvre was a fizzer An Airtourer I think - the plane fell back - in reverse gear ............. a lesson on how not to do it ! It was like backing into a Woolworths parking lot ................ and hitting a couple of shopping trollies on the way in
  14. pilot will have to be unpaid in the hangar ............ fixing that up .......... weekends
  15. 180 Kn cruise and a low 49 Kn stall ............. nice
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