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  • Birthday 22/04/1948

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    Savannah S
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    Wairarapa
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    New Zealand

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  1. Depends what you are viewing on Flying Dog: On my laptop/PC it's a blue Following button at the top RH corner of the thread. Click on that and you can unfollow the thread.
  2. Danny, you may want to check the current output of that USB port: I have seen an aircraft equipped with them initially, but subsequently replaced with good quality conventional USB charging ports. I can only assume either that the output was inadequate for whatever they were driving (tablet?), or that they were electrically noisy.
  3. BTW, there was early first person footage of parachuting into trees. Probably deliberately, as it would have have taken some effort back then to mount the camera gear. This was round canopy stuff, and shortly after entering the trees it looked like the jumper fell very sharply. I think what can happen is that if the jumper/payload/aircraft momentarily snags in parts of the tree, the canopy above continues descending or deflating. Then when the j/p/a unsnags and falls it is now no longer supported by the canopy, so can fall at a much higher rate........
  4. Well, that's a relief........was trying to figure how to get them to take the net down in time............)
  5. IBob

    B-36 Flight Deck.jpg

    Steamgauge heaven!!!
  6. Suggest you avoid smoking in the dunny, though???
  7. It's interesting to note that ICP have come out with an 18L receiver tank. The standard kit tank has been 6L. This sits under the baggage area, and while it was probably introduced to increase fuel capacity, it would also move the C of G back by almost the same amount as my 10Kg of ballast.
  8. The 701 has a different rear stab/tail setup than the Savannah, so I can't speak for the former, Nev. I can say that with the later Savannah S, you run out of elevator authority on landing sooner than with the earlier VG. And on takeoff you can get the nosewheel off earlier/slower with the VG than the S. What seems to be going on is that the C of G, while well within limits, is also well forward, and particularly when lightly loaded. I tend to fly light, I added 10Kg ballast to the baggage area a while ago, and it is a quite different and much easier aircraft to land that way. I've been thinking since of moving the battery back instead, but am nowhere near getting round to it yet....
  9. JGs VGs are a really nice and well presented product, Marty. They come with precut double sided pads that make installation a breeze. (And no, nobody's paying me to say this!)
  10. I'd just say stick to the recipe (kit manufacturer's recommendation). It's quick and easy, none of mine have fallen off and I'm not aware of any other builders losing them. JG supplies precut 3M doublesided tape with his VG kits, which is excellent, but the Savannah wing has locating holes that match twin locating pegs on the VGs provided, and to tape them you would be somehow cutting round the pegs, also standing the VG off the surface.
  11. P 35 of the wing assembly section says to use 'ciano acrylic' glue, which is better known as cyanoacrylate or superglue. (It's mostly all in the manual.........somewhere.)
  12. I used superglue (onto 2 pot painted wing). And it's worth getting the superglue bottle with the little brush in the cap....like nail varnish. It's much easier to apply the right amount neatly with the brush than straight from the nozzle.
  13. I doubt there's a pilot here who hasn't had his moments. Learn what you can from it. Then put it behind you and push on, I say.
  14. Hughes/MD500s were also famously used for deer shooting, then later for live capture by wrangling, net guns and tranquilizer darts. There's a fair bit of exciting footage on Youtube, if anyone wants to look at it. And in some locations it got territorial: a pilot friend of mine gave it away after a bullet hole appeared in his canopy during a deer recovery flight.
  15. Yep, they didn't fly up and down, Nev: just hovered in place until moved to another spot. And it wasn't a 5 minute job, sometimes they were up for hours. This was in one of NZs principal fruit growing areas, principally for export. But I moved out of the area 20 years ago, I have no idea if they still do it.
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