Guest Maj Millard Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 Hope the whole thing is not terminal !...........................................................................Maj... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryon Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 Is there currently any electric planes in the circuit 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Maj Millard Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 Ozzie's had a positive connection with electric engines............................................................Maj... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deskpilot Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 Is he flying under VFR or Ohms-Law regs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 A bad electric aeroplane could be a killer, what!.... Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazza 38 Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 I have been getting a good laugh out of this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Methusala Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 I can't see how it hertz! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 If it's got more ergs, is it more ergonomic. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 To have electric planes in the circuit, you would need circuits in the electric planes. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farri Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 Electric planes could have a short circuit. Frank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyvulcan Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 I can't take any more of this ridiculous banter. I'm going ohm to my missus! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 If that is the way you want to conduct yourself, I offer no resistance to it. Are you going by the wheatstone bridge? Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guernsey Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Stone the crows I've run out of puns....must have a flat battery and that's a real pun-ishment for me. Discharged Alan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieselten Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 A Greenie decided to build a plane. Because aircraft are anathema to the Greens, he also decided to make it the stealthiest, quietest, most invisible airplane ever built, far more so then even the vaunted Skunk Works had ever produced. Clearly this would require some unique materials and methods of construction. Reluctant to use anything that required the sacrifice of a living thing, or involve the expenditure of any form of energy to produce (such as metal) he constructed it entirely from naturally-occurring materials which he found lying around. For the wings he used the unshakable scientific expertise and knowledge of the environmentalists. Although invisible, he felt this was so solid and strong it would lift anything. After all, everyone believes that science is always impartial and unchallengable. For the powerplant he decided to use hot-air, because it obviously worked so well in balloons. So he went to Canberra, where this material is present in unusual abundance. He found the primary source at Parliament House, and brought back an enormous quantity which, paradoxically, fitted inside a small shopping-bag. Whilst in Canberra he also found something even he realised he would need in order to get his airplane to fly - a huge quantity of spin for the propeller. Everywhere he went in Canberra he encountered spin in unbelievable quantities, so he returned from his trip to the nation's capital with two essentials for aviation - massive quantities of air, and something to spin his propeller. Because the airframe was so light, and the power of hot air and spin so powerful, the aircraft would easily carry over a hundred people with just a single engine. Maintenance costs would be minimal. For the fuselage and empennage he decided to use the invisible fabric of broken political promises. The invisibility of this material matched that of his chosen wing-material, so he felt he was really on his game when it came time to mate the wings to the fuselage. To join them he used the irrefutable logic of the Left, where one only has to say a thing is so and it automatically is, and has been for all measureable time. He simply said "let the wings be joined to the fuselage" and lo! it was so. Came the day when this environmentally-friendly, carbon-neutral, zero-emission wonder was to be unveiled to a waiting crowd of press, politicians, dignitaries and general hangers-on. The aircraft was covered in a cloth, laser-lights played against a background of fog, mood-music played in the background from hidden speakers. The builder made a speech, applause was duly given, politicians made speeches praising him for building such a wonderous machine, the cloth was withdrawn to gasps of astonishment and then all the politicians were invited to board the aircraft, with the builder (who was also the pilot, since he knew more about the aircraft than anyone else) for the first flight. They made their way onto the invisible aircraft, strapped themselves into their invisible seats and then the propeller started to spin and they all taxied out to the runway. Soundlessly they took off and climbed to three thousand feet. Then something miraculous and quite wonderful happened. One of the news camera-men on the ground realised it was all a huge hoax. "Hey fellas, this is all bull$#it!” he yelled. The news-crews then captured the spectacle of the entire plane-load of passengers falling to their deaths from three thousand feet as the spell was broken and the invisible Green aircraft was revealed to be nothing more than hot-air, spin and a bunch of self-seeking politicians and a Greenie trying to pull the wool over the public's eyes. After this, the world was a much better and safer place. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyvulcan Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 FYI, going ohm to see the missus was a big mistake. As soon as I walked in the door, she made me do the ioning... Stick with the workshop and building aircraft! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guernsey Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Wow! after that post from Dieselten, I can't re-coil what we were talking about. Must have lost my memory chip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted December 2, 2011 Author Share Posted December 2, 2011 I'm de-gaussed - ed that I can't write such a good story as Dieselten. OME Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyvulcan Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Dick Van Grunsven has come up with a new computer program that would help this Greenie make up a table for how much energy he needs. Dick called it the Van der Graph generator... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 you would need circuits in the electric planes. Nev Series or parallel? Dieselten, that's a great story!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 As long as they are not short(circuits). Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 As long as they are not short(circuits). Nev Very much so, that would not be cool! (literally) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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