FlyingVizsla Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 Amphibious gyrocopter crashes on Lake Macquarie, two passengers escape injury - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU Two men have escaped injury after the boat-helicopter hybrid overturned during a take-off attempt on Lake Macquarie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 Well, I wonder what Plan B is? - seeing as Plan A ended in disaster? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 Only takes a ' half floating beer bottle ' to punch a hole through even thick laminated frp . As happened, to " Fallacy " in the Hawksbury River race '' . How did they know what it was ! . It came inside the boat . spacesailor 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 Sure it wasn't Phallusy? .Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueadventures Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 14 hours ago, spacesailor said: Only takes a ' half floating beer bottle ' to punch a hole through even thick laminated frp . As happened, to " Fallacy " in the Hawksbury River race '' . How did they know what it was ! . It came inside the boat . spacesailor The straight lateral material edge is interesting as could be a developed accumulated fatigue stress that let go during the landing and opened up on take-off, just a guess from a poor image view. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turboplanner Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 16 minutes ago, Blueadventures said: The straight lateral material edge is interesting as could be a developed accumulated fatigue stress that let go during the landing and opened up on take-off, just a guess from a poor image view. Yes, should have been jagged Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danny_galaga Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 Glad they came out of it ok. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrendAn Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 (edited) Edited April 4 by BrendAn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrendAn Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 (edited) pretty sure its this machine. built by tag aviation in canberra. passenger is describing how long the log he saw was. Edited April 4 by BrendAn 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 Looks like a blue ringed Octopus. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrendAn Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 5 hours ago, facthunter said: Looks like a blue ringed Octopus. Nev It does too now that mention it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBob Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 (edited) I wonder if the problem could be inadequate strength/bracing in the float? We once had a f/glass canadian canoe. Heading for home in failing weather after a week on a big lake, I accepted a tow from a power boat. While there was little in the canoe (just me), when the canoe got onto the wave from the boat, the bottom went flat then dinged in sharply. And while it didn't break or tear, as I recall there were stress marks where this may have happened before. Edited April 5 by IBob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueadventures Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 9 minutes ago, IBob said: I wonder if the problem could be inadequate strength/bracing in the float? We once had a f/glass canadian canoe. Heading for home in failing weather after a week on a big lake, I accepted a tow from a power boat. While there was little in the canoe (just me), when the canoe got onto the wave from the boat, the bottom went flat then dinged in sharply. And while it didn't break or tear, as I recall there were stress marks where this may have happened before. Agree; similar o my 8:37 yesterday comment as I have seen such before; however a poor image for assessing though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrendAn Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 They look like full lotus floats . They have been around for years and have a good reputation. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 WHAT they are fitted to must have some relevance? Dual floats can have very assymetric drag causing directional problems. Need strong rudder inputs. Nev 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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