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LOL - if you didn't go out in wing and low weather in the UK you'd not get any flying in at all. If you have any interest take a look at how to go from Stoke in Kent up to the Shuttleworth airfield of Duxford going past Stanstead ... you find yourself at 1000amsl less than half a mile from 737's full of happy tourists watcing you pootle along as they prepare for landing. Wish the control areas in Australia were as tight as the UK and Europe - so much tiger country could disappear and we would not need to see controlled airspace access ...

Do not have the pics but... Flying to Calais in my flexwing (see my avatar) in 2009 for the Bleriot centenary flight is the best I have ever managed on airspeed. The morning was blowing a gale and storms coming up the channel from daybreak and we sat on the ground in Kent watching the weather radar as the sh#t was coming up the channel. By 11 it was looking lke a drop in wind and an hour or two of no rain from midday so two of us took off in close formation - single flight plan and me leading and doing radio. Radar lied and forecast was no better - the winds did not drop as we arrived in France from over the channel. Arrived at Calais and on downwind for 24 my airspeed of 58mph but my groundspeed was over 110mph ... turning final my groundspeed was -10mph until I went full power to make it slowly back to the runway - longest time on final in my life. On touchdown - at more than cruise power - my groundspeed was 0 with power on to not be lown backwards on the runway ... and I added more power to taxi up to exit runway. You live and learn ... but I was one of nearly 100 microlights that made it safely into Calais that day and flew back to the UK in celebration the following morning ... in glorious still air!

Not exactly correct. The Bluetooth handshake has to record the start of the proximity of another app enabled Bluetooth device and the duration so it will be seeking Bluetooth signals art all times and working out distance for all positive contacts to then start a 15 min count once it works out it’s within distance. The 15 min only comes in when that close contact has exceeded 15 min then it’s written to the handset available for sending in if requested and your permit. the app runs constantly seeking any-all Bluetooth devices to identify ... and that is how it can use battery. my nice old iPhone has served me for 4 years .., it’s predecessor iPhone lasted nearly 5 yrs. and my experience is that the app kills my phones battery in an unacceptable timeframe. Yes it’s an older handset. Yes it’s a budget model. Yes I actually don’t use Bluetooth at all other than this app. And yes - I would use the app IF it worked with my handset and pattern of life. It doesn’t so I’m off the app.

I've downloaed it - ran it for 6 hours and turned it off. I am aware of the sucurity risks but assessed them as acceptable to me - but it still had to work with my life and use of the phone. The way it has to work on an Iphone impacts very adversly on battery life on my older 6SE (100% to 0% in under 6hrs ... I only saw the phone was dead after 6hrs so can't say how long it actually took to hit 0%). As I need to have the phone workable with me for the entire business day it is unworkable for me - without that app my phone battery charge lasted all day 6am-11pm with overnight charge.

Turbo - given it was stated to be his opinion your reply in my opinion comes close to attacking the poster by implication rather than the topic.

Thats the Rutan Predator cropduster prototype ... and yeah it would kill bugs just with looks

Well with that level of good looks ... and the italian airforce roundel - its an italian prototype. I recall seeing it in a flying magazine from back in the 1950's and think its called the sagitarius but without googling can't remember who built it or if thats the actual name May I google??

Looks like the Bellanca Skyrocket ... and I do have a job, its just lots of waiting for batch processing to run ;-)

Yep, easy. beecraft honeybee

Avro Ashton - the odd fishmouth intake with the splitter for the two jets in each nacelle gives it away

Avro Athena. One of the odd aircraft - the prototypes were turbine powered but the production ones were Merlin powered.

Agree - great collection and a lovely airfield to fly into visit when not a display day.

There is 95.10 original and the current 95.10. Original max empty of 115kg certainly had no great margins in terms of building a very strong airframe with bells and whistles. but since the mid 1990’s -yes quarter of a century - the 95.10 design envelope has allowed an effective empty weight that will allow very strong airframes and quite a few whistles ... but they can’t be factory built so it’s true DIY. My 95.10 self design is very strong and great fun - 100hp single seater trikes are not common and you will have fun keeping up with me on climb out?

Thruster three point easily - thems fighting words to many pilots ;-P Note - I am happy to three point every single model of thruster I have flown (except the nosewheel T600) but a few of them are not easy to three point

Look, we all know that aliens do not need aispeed to fly - they hover and go really fast they they feel fit. If you like I'll take front row seats and even pay cinema price for pocorn and drinbks if YOU will provide an alien and a rolling runway to test. = ;-P

But that’s not the possible case ... aircraft wheels are not powered. Therefore the only way the conveyer belt needs to start moving in the opposite direction is when the airframe attaches to the wheels moves under the thrust of the propeller. the only way the airframe stays still relative to the air mass it sits in is white powered wheels. When movement of the airframe only exists with thrust from the prop the fact the land it’s standing on is movable is not stopping you accelerating to take off speed.

The original throught experiment is: "A plane is standing on a runway that can move (some sort of band conveyer). The plane moves in one direction, while the conveyer moves in the opposite direction. This conveyer has a control system that tracks the plane speed and tunes the speed of the conveyer to be exactly the same (but in the opposite direction). Can the plane take off?" As pilots we know that flying works on airspeed and not groundspeed and that airspeed at takeoff is from thrust being greater than drag so ... why worry about a runway thats moving? The misapprehension that confuses 'people' - not pilots, we are not mere 'people' - is that you link in your mind the conveyor belt moving against you to when you walk the wrong way on a travelator (or against the travel of an escalator) and can 'stand still' with reference to the world around you while walking. The probelm applying the walking view of standing still to an aircraft taking off is that unlike feet being carried backwards at the same rate as the forward steps the tires of the aircraft are able to spin provided there is thrust equal to the drag of the aircraft on the belt ... the belt runway does not carry the aircraft backwards at all if the engine is delivering take-off power ... it just increases the drag of the spinning wheel bearings ... and that drag is VERY small compared to thrust from engine/prop - thrust > drag = accelleration. So the pilots answer is ABSOLUTELY YES the aircraft will take off. It matters not if the belt runway is trying to 'pull' the aircraft backwards at takeoff airspeed or even greater speed ... all that happens is the wheel in contact with the belt runway will spin up to a speed equal to takeoff speed + belt speed ... and so long as that spinning does not disintergrate the wheel you are fine. If you turn the throught experiment around and make the converyor belt run in the same direction as the aircraft your wheels will spin at airspeed - conveyor speed = 0 but you will still reach takeoff airspeed and it will be fine ... and youtube provides many examples of this when aircraft take off or land on moving trucks ... they fly on/off at airspeed but the aircraft tyres do not rotate.

Can you advise where the RAAus is investigating comes from? A Thorp stalls well above RAAus limits so I’m scratching my head here on why they would be involved if it’s a Thorp.

Good to see it return ... but it’s bloody spin to say it’s free - it’s covered by our fees ... it’s not free.

Close but it’s the sns-2 guppy not the later Hiperbipe or hiperlite. Plans online all over the place. Originally flew with either the solo or the r277

Well its an odd duck ... the way the rear half is built looks like a variation on an old Canadian ultralight available for home build - the Striplin lone ranger or sky ranger ... but the front half and wings are just wrong for it them. IF someone decided to build completely different wings AND move the engine down from above the wing AND they put floats on the resulting aircraft I'll guess a variant of the Lone Ranger - doe not look wide enough for the two seat Sky Rnager.

Thruster has it ... but I hope they put at least 1 door on the other side over the wing ... don’t fancy trying to use the doors on the side we see when it’s in the water ?

Hmmmm. Not on the 912 80hp fitted to my trike it doesnt ... it moves that carb to idle. For me if a cable breaks the outcomes will depend on where the break occurs: 1. cable break between foot throttle and hand throttle - single cable run so both carbs go to idle but I have hand throttle with friction lock available 2. cable break between hand throttle and cable splitter - single cable run so both carbs go to idle and I am landing fairly soon 3. cable break after the cable splitter - one carb goes to idle and I have foot/hand control over the remaining carb ... its going to be a very unhappy engine and I will probably still be landing very soon. I do not mind this set up (its the same as on the two stroke engines I have flown and still fly) and for me my landing run once i get the mains on the ground is under 100m even when at MTOW so I am comfy.

Yeah I understood. ?

Love to see them try and fly at 35knts to annoy me. But to be fair at 35knts they would have time to work it out while I was taking 5 hours to get to the border ?