Hello Doug,
Since I have nothing to hide and I wanna be straight I did mention in my blog being banned from three finnish aviation forums.
I have really no direct answer to why I was banned. It would require a lenghty story, but I think it is because I am too direct bringing my ideas into forums. There is very little toleration if I repeat something too many times. I do have to confess that I claimed that a pusher of mine ( in the specs ) would have a mileage of 300+. I did not have much basis on that except that I calculated the drag and knew the fuel consumption of the APT 11.6 cu in engine at 65% power ( 1.7 liters/hr )..and the drag was .34 sq ft ( about 1/16th of a Cessna 172 ). It all depends how fast the plane could cruise at 65% power..if it is less than 100 mph then the 300 mpg is baloney. We cannot be really sure unless a plane is built and flown.
I have a written ( e-mail ) from a finnish EAA certified testpilot that he would fly the plane if built. TKK ( technical university ) educated Air Force test pilot declined after commenting it 5 times..saying he does not like small aeroplanes.
The banns started earlier because I also commented on a golf site and on a model aviation site. Some of the model builders were also golfers and for some reason also the stories I told about golfing weren't credible to few engineers of TKK ( see I am from the neck of the woods..from northern Finland ). One of the not credible stories was my 270 yard stroke with a 5 iron ( which went 50 meters past the hole..and took 20 minutes to find the ball and also bent the shaft of the club). My clubs are 1 inch longer than normal. I used to use 2 iron ( stiff shaft + 2 inch longer ) for driving like Tiger Woods in early nineties and regularly teed 235 meters with it. Few years ago I broke my back and used heavy medication ( Tramall...opiats and panacod..it has codein..which Howard Hughes was addicted to ) and spent my time in the web telling tales of my most incredible golf stories as a GF player with par( even ) rounds ( 9 holes max ).I also introduced my Reno Racer TS II in 2003..which became a laughing stock here among educated aero engineers.
Just in top of that there is a "dude" here in my towns province that actually has built 4 aeroplanes with VW engine that are all of his own designs made outa fertiliser sacks with unorthodox controls..has no flight training and several of his planes has been confiscated and he keeps flying. One of the planes is a low wing monoplane without ailerons. One of his kites is in a museum in Jyväskylä.
Last bann came when I reminded that we have one existing FAI record made with VL-70 Vinka...a flight from Helsinki/Finland to Odense/Denmark ( 1010 km ) at average speed of 35,4 km/h in 1000-1750 kg class. Next day I also mentioned about an ardent opponent of mine in the net being either too fat for his Fournier 4 or the Fournier 4 was smaller than I remembered..he was doing phony strafing runs in his Fournier 4 in a picture cavalcade...which I considered ridicilous abuse of a motorized glider. I think I earned the bann..so I have no regrets. I am also sorry for the personal "assault".
I have never been banned from a foreign site. Also my back is good..I just cycled 50 km last nite and I am under no medication ( for a year and a half by now ).
rgds,
Juke
Just kidding !