AndyPickles

I'm 60, old and ugly. Not bragging, just facts. And here in the States, cars have had MPH and KPH on the clock since I learned to drive in highschool. Every ruler I own and half the tapes have standard and metric. Don't know a single meth freak or pot head that can't eyeball a gram, and every cup measure in my kitchen has standard and metric equivalent marks. Soda is sold in liters, milk in gallons, water in both. Halves, quarters, and eighths, whether standard or metric are natural, and nobody cares how the distance we drive is measured, we just wanna know how LONG it's gonna take to get there. So Android and Siri both tell us distance AND time. And we don't hate the French. At least not the Frys. We do poke fun of them. We also admire the hell out of your redhead gals, we just can't puzzle out how you blokes have learned to live with them!

I posted a couple emails to the museum and the club, thanks for the heads up.

Lol... prolly true, but the guys who really want to brag seem to use knots. Our car speedometers read in MPH and KPH, one dial inside the other, and so do many ASI, re Knots and MPH. I don't particularly care, because I rarely use the speed to fly. RPM, fuel burn, and the green, yellow and red arcs, all tell me where I need to be, and the speed is a result of that. With the VERY few exceptions where I'm flying into a busy airport mixing with jets, the speed is secondary or tertiary to the other parameters.

Thank you. I've think I've read most of the threads on the Tyro. The "Never Ending Story" is a bit much for one sit though! 😉

I'm a tightwad. ASI are spendy. Nail polish is cheap. Unless you are mixing it up with fast and busy airplanes, no need. Formation flying? Even in loose gaggle flying, our group would be pissed if someone was looking at an ASI than at the planes around them. I'd put a dot of Green nail polish Every 10 knots in the zone you actually operate, and save some money.

Any place I could put up an advertisement looking? Kind of an Australian Barnstormers?

I'm a Yank. And over here, we USED to have an ideology called "Yankee Ingenuity." It was the concept of doing the most you could with what was on hand. All my life, I heard "Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do, or do without." Then after the war, the US became the land of plenty, and that ideology kind of faded away. I still admire it though, and try to implement it in my life as my parents had to in theirs. And admiring that has made me admire airplanes like the Borrabee, the Tyro, the Thruster, and a few others. These airplanes are designed with a minimum of material, yet still rugged and serviceable. I decided to look for plans. Of the ones mentioned, the Tyro was the only one that I know of that had sold plans in any number. I could only find one thread that mentioned plans, and it dead ended. If an Aussie was looking for plans to the Tyro, where would he look? I've corresponded with the designer several times, and he doesn't have any available, although he is willing to help with information. Great guy, btw! Thanks you guys! I'm hoping to find someone with a set stashed away.

Hi everyone, I'm from the US and am interested in obtaining Geoff Eastwood's Tyro plans. I have been corresponding with him, and he no longer sells plans. He still is a delightful gentleman, and even at 81, returns messages quickly. He said he sold approximately 110 sets of plans before kitting the aircraft and selling the Tyro mark II. Someone out there has to have a set of plans. It would be awesome to be able to purchase a set. I have scratch built a Sonex, built a Hornet powered by a Jabiru, and helped build two other aircraft. Please, if you have plans you are not going to use, please consider selling them to me. If you have some that you have built from, and are serviceable, I'd still like them, and have offered Geoff the same compensation he would get selling them directly. I'm not trying to cut him out of the picture. He's agreed to me pursuing used plans. Also, a build log would be fantastic to see. Anyone know of one? Thanks, Andy.

There are hundreds of rural airstrips here in Northern California. If you are flying ultralight aircraft, no permission is needed. If bigger, you need permission to build from the county building department.the State and Federal government don't need to be consulted for private airstrips not open to the public.