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  1. FlyBoy1960
    SONY PYXIS. IPS-360 That should be in a museum ! I seem to remember that they would only work stationary, they wouldn't work for a moving vehicle/aeroplane/somebody walking
  2. FlyBoy1960
    As Mc Guyver has said, you will need to check with the manufacturer. As these trikes are considered "certified aircraft" then you need to be very concerned with the ongoing airworthiness, and you will probably be at the wrong end of CASA if you swap these over without a paperwork trial from airborne.
  3. FlyBoy1960
    if you look at the vibrations through the control column then the machine is very much telling him it doesn't like doing these manoeuvres. Its shaking like crazy and he has the "grip of death" on that stick ! "He is here for a good time... not a long time !"
  4. FlyBoy1960
    Its ok, he was wearing a helmet !
  5. FlyBoy1960
    It would help if you said a few words about the man, what exactly did he do that warrants a museum ? sorry to ask this dumb question but I just don't know and haven't heard of him
  6. FlyBoy1960
    Just get an adaptor and it will work again, they are only a few dollars
  7. FlyBoy1960
    The old bonfire was so big that it made telegraph poles look like twigs. The fire had to get put out otherwise it would burn for weeks. I used to love the rodeo, one night however a young lady fell off only a metre from where we were sitting and broke her pelvis and had to get airlifted out. That was the start of the end with all of the legal action afterwards
  8. FlyBoy1960
    Looks c c cold !
  9. FlyBoy1960
    A few warbirds have been through the Gold Coast heading North this morning. I know of several from our club going up daybreak tomorrow.
  10. FlyBoy1960
    Well, that 'could' be two-thirds of his business in coming years based on the decline of GA.
  11. FlyBoy1960
    RS and E14 will cost you the earth !
  12. FlyBoy1960
    Any good nut and bolt shop or bearing shop has them, all sizes and types
  13. FlyBoy1960
    just asking, why do you think you can get away with a 48 V motor/battery when everybody else in the electrics is using nearly 10 times this voltage as a minimum ?
  14. FlyBoy1960
    Paywall https://thewest.com.au/news/disaster-and-emergency/ultralight-plane-crash-62-year-old-man-dies-near-manjimup-c-6901171
  15. FlyBoy1960
    I was wondering this also, It cant be throttle links for Rotax
  16. FlyBoy1960
    there was an electric aircraft that crashed in Europe and was in a dam for 2 days or 3 days before it could be recovered. I read that when it came out there were no damage to the batteries and in fact (if memory serves me correctly it was the Norway CAA) were able to turn the batteries back on and operate the propulsion system. https://www.euronews.com/2019/08/14/norways-first-electric-plane-crash-lands-on-lake I can't find it now but there is a CAA report detailing how just about everything worked when the aircraft was recovered and inspected. There was no battery fire or any other issue.
  17. FlyBoy1960
    in China you get what you pay for, if you pay the lowest possible price you will get the lowest possible quality if you pay a fair and reasonable price you can get best in world products. There are dozens and dozens of examples but something like an iPhone is a good example, they are not cheap Chinese products. If you pay the right price in China you can get anything you want to the highest possible standard of manufacture, quality and reliability
  18. FlyBoy1960
    I would have to disagree with you unfortunately. You must buy a dedicated charger to suit the battery you are using. There are dozens of EarthX batteries at our airfield that I am aware of and they require a dedicated charger. None of these has ever caught on fire or even come close but you must use the Earth X battery charger. One of the guys had an AeroVoltz lithium battery which was subject to a service bulletin requiring it to be removed by the manufacturer. We put this onto a 10 amp hour lead acid battery charger and within about 20 minutes it vented smoke, within 25 minutes it was all over after quite a decent and hot fire. When it was venting on fire it was like they discharge from a propane tank on fire. A lot of directional heat and flames. This is why they required these batteries to be removed from service. EarthX are an expensive battery but if you use the dedicated charger the company has some sort of damage guarantee where they will replace the lost item if they ever catch on fire during charging
  19. FlyBoy1960
    They only catch on fire when you use the wrong charger. You cant use a "normal" lead acid charger
  20. FlyBoy1960
    I have flown in one of these at our airport and still consider this aircraft to be the most comfortable light aircraft I have ever been in. Different from a lot of ultralights it has a yoke control, massive legroom and massive headroom. The baggage area was also very large and could be accessed in flight. The owner was telling me they now have modifications in the luggage area to take snow skis and golf clubs. It was an amazingly comfortable aircraft, very stable and very enjoyable to be a passenger and also to try the controls, Good visibility in all stages except a really steep short field takeoff where the nose obscured some forward vision, A normal takeoff was much more visible over the front. The first models had castoring nose wheel they fixed this in later models which had fully steering nose wheel's.
  21. FlyBoy1960
    Good news, i was driving up but worried it would be a waste of time with the "floods" Good to know they are wrong AGAIN !
  22. FlyBoy1960
    the 472.5 kg is for the ultralight regulations in Europe. In other countries they are 600 kg with the design weight of 750 kg when the new categories open up. A normal one has 130 L of fuel with an option for 180 L according to their website. There is even one flying as a turbine which has been designed for military training for countries that can't afford bigger aircraft just to be used for training
  23. FlyBoy1960
    My dream plane !
  24. FlyBoy1960
    now I get it. I was trying to work out what it stood for I have only just worked out what LMFAO meant
  25. FlyBoy1960
    I have close-up photos of this engine, i will see if i can find them. Taken about 4 years ago before the record flights.
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