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  • Birthday 15/04/1969

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    Homebuilt weightshift
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    Australia

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  1. Price is in the top $1.000
  2. Floats for 300kg MTOW ultralight. Used with storage damage to the bottom of 1 float to repair - minimal work to do to put right. they are twin compartment fibreglass floats with all mounting points perfectly sound.
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    Seat fuel tank

    Rotational moulded 65l seat fuel tank. New never fitter or used. Would usually be fitted to a single seat gyro. Also available to take for free is the second hand fibreglass fairing from a single seat gyro.
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    Raven X trike

    Two seat Raven X trike. Complete aircraft including Raven wing, single breaker points fan cooled Rotax 447 with top end overhaul, new fan belt and carb kit put through. New two blade wooden prop included. Engine currently in crate. And prop in shipping box. This is a lovely older trike that will cruise hands free at 50knt. Will need a strip and service of the entire airframe but it should take minimal work to put back in the air. No trailer.
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    Aquilair kid trike

    New in fair condition - Never flown. Has no instruments. Rotax 447 single breaker points fan cooled engine fitted. Had top end overhaul, new fan belt and carb kit put into the engine. I have a warp drive prop that I can include so if you have a wing and want a fairly easy project this is a good starter. It was registered with RAAus in 95.10 but has not been flown.
  6. Original 95.10 Sapphire with fabric wing and KFM107er engine. Last flown 2012 and in need of total restoration. Has been in a shipping container for the past 10 years. Will need fabric strip and inspect on all flying surfaces. Included is 40yards of new fabric and two spare KFM engine for spares. No trailer and will not deliver. Will add a few more pics in the week.
  7. Original factory Nippers were all powered by VW based engines - hand prop ones too. Homes built ones were usually VW before the Jabiru 2200 became available. Many are now flying on Jabirus
  8. Straight is overrated - so long as it stays within the width/length of the runway and does not scare you silly Im ok with a bit of wander/realignment with the wind
  9. Absolutely yes. The regos were originally xx-xxx and when it was expanded to 4 digits the leading 0 was allowed under the tech manual prior to 4 to be omitted. all old aircraft rego are grandfathered so old reg 2-3 numerals still exist.
  10. Yep, that's possible and exists in some makes/models and countries. Difficulty is that its not a perfect solution - if you work and commute your car is ususally a long way from your panels so unless you have a grid link to allow you to push elelctric in at home and draw it out elsewhere it is a battery that is not generally available when solar pv is generating the elecltric that needs to be stored ... unless every parking space is wired to the grid ...
  11. I agree but I'll get political ... tell the baby boomers to downsize or the Gen Xers living in very large houses or Mc Mansions covering the maximum m^2 allowed that its not reasonable to live in an energy inefficient way and see what happens Me, I will transition to retirement into a small flat in a town where I need no car to live and aim to arrive at death with just enough cash to dispose of the corpse and leave as little adverse impact on the world as I can achieve. I have almost completed the conversion of my ancient Sapphire from KFM to electric power and will have to scrounge a few more recycled solar panels to build the charger for that so I can continue flying without burning dinosaurs. I'm far from perfect but I am trying.
  12. Probably a factor like that is required. However, its not a single solution or a simple replace 'A' electric generation with 'A' from a different source The cheapest electricity is electricity you do not use. 'green' electric changes includes power saving measures and changes to how we use electric and how we design and build the buildings themselves. Our home is NOT ideal, it is a weatherboard and tin roofed cottage built in the early 1950's ... it was build without indoor plumbing and no elelctric just a tap on the wall in the kitchen over the sink straight from the tank. Both of electric and plumbing were added later. When we rebuilt it from the frame out 8 years ago we spent our money on the core fabric to get it as good as we could on the cash we had and we spent under $50k total ... all the finishes and fittings are the cheapest because we needed something that minimally impacting on my wallet to run ... I am a skin flint. We have double glazing, full insulation all around and a passive heat recovery/exclusion system with solar/battery/grid link electric. Granted it's a small house and there are only the two of us but we run everything from the water pressure system to the clothes dryer and deep freeze without thought of 'managing' electric like I did 30 years ago in a solar house ... but we NEVER use more than 15.2kwh a day to run it no matter what we do. Our 6.6kw battery linked solar runs it and we pump about half the standing charge in feed in electric back to the grid constantly. Lots of small impacts on demand, lots of improved coverage of generation and storage all linked through the grid is viable ... but there is need for scale and speed.
  13. So given the topic is lost in the distance of comment I feel ok with a lunchtime rant 1. if you have an electrical grid the issues of the copper etc in it are immaterially different regardless of what source is throwing electricity into the system - stop bagging non-traditional power sources on the materials in the grid itself - it will exist anyway. It MAY be reduced if you reduce the singular grid to mini-grids but that's a completely different issue 2. The need for electrical storage to allow time displacement of generation and consumption has always existed as an issue. Historic management has avoided battery and been through a mix of generator types that can be ramped up/down as reasonably possible depending on the generator type. The grid management 'fun' has traditionally been matching capacity and generation to have a relatively stable current reducing/removing brown and black outs 3. The only instant access storage systems currently available are batteries and capacitors. All others have ramp up times be it minutes or hours they are not instantly available. Capacitors have their own issues separate from batteries but people will keep looking and that may emerge ... just not tomorrow. 4. for grid linked battery there is a real concern on the risk/cost/hazard of the systems and the embedded resources that they contain. There are possible battery storage systems that are moving out of design/development into operational use on scale that address many of these concerns eg Redflow – Sustainable Energy Storage And here is my 2c worth on nucelar and Australia and where I think we will go: 1. nuclear is not publicly acceptable so until and unless that changes all the issues (real and imagined/exaggerated) will stop it starting 2. Australia has a real capacity in terms of geography to access solar and wind - play to your resource strength maybe? 3. even if it were socially acceptable it is not timescale viable in the short to medium term as a solution - coal and gas will be ended before anything substantial could come in nuclear so its not the short/medium term solution and we are not going to sit in the dark twiddling thumbs waiting for electricity become a thing again 4. short and medium term will be solar and wind, how that is stored to spread over time is the biggy 5. a distributed grid with solar/battery on buildings with a grid draw facility will become a part of the solution for generation time displacing - a way for ramping up 'battery' capacity without a single huge battery as the building owners pay for effectively a minim grid of their own that can be accessed to store and draw from other generations.
  14. Agreed, BUT a 150km round trip Newcastle to Singleton last week mostly at 110kph with aircon on and just cruising along returned 16kw/100km. As EVs are really WORST consumers of electric/km at higher speed I think my real world is a fair worst case. I have also driven the Ioniq5 and its nice but I do not know its actual kw/100. I discounted it from my to buy consideration after a short drive when NRMA brought a fleet of EVs to town for members to try out.
  15. Agreed that power per 100km varies. However, the 16kw/100km I use in debunking IS the actual 110kph consumption use on highway of the BYD Seal last week ... been there, done it, seen the consumption and also know that road fast chargers are NOT $1.65/wkh. The Mail story cannot hold up internally at all. It is a hatchet job on EVs Oh and that's before you consider that her petrol costs of $70 one way equates to around 3.8l/100 ... love to see even a 2011 Corolla get that mileage on that trip ... and its not a comparable car either ... medium large SUV EV vs small petrol car. Its a hatchet job
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