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    Fiat CR.42 Falco

    rgmwa commented on red750's aircraft in Warbirds

    I scratch built one of these as a scale control line model with a third line throttle control many years ago. Sadly, it never flew but I still have the now very much worse for wear relic that I can't bring myself to part with. All the numbers and decals were hand painted. It's hardly a competition winner but not bad for a 16 year old. Never thought that one day I'd have a pilot's licence and build a real aircraft.
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    Ray Allen make a good but expensive range of stick grips. I just have the basic PTT foam grip but you can get much more fancy ones. Available from Skyshop or Aircraft Spruce and probably other places. I ordered mine direct from Ray Allen in the US.
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    F4 Phantom

    rgmwa posted a topic in Remote Control

    Look at the detail in this...
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    Impressive work, Max!
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    Maybe they haven’t discovered floats.
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    Let’s see him do it at half the speed.
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    No. Includes both. The 912ULS engine kit is about $42k. Mine was US$28k.
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    I don't count assembling it as a cost as it was very interesting and good fun. My edited post also included a reasonable paint cost estimate, but I don't think I could justify the cost today. Even at the time it was a lot of money although really no more than a top of the range 4WD or luxury car. Still it was a big commitment and if my wife hadn't been OK with it I wouldn't have done it. It worried me more that it did her.
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    My RV 12 cost AUD $96k at its first flight in 2015. A similarly equipped RV12 kit with a fuel injected Rotax 912iS from Vans today is US $128,800. That's before shipping, painting etc. My engine is a 912 ULS so that would reduce the price to about US$124,000. At the current exchange rate you would be looking at AUD $210 - $230k to build one today including a basic paint scheme.
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    Good to see this project still progressing well after all the problems they've had, and that they're taking the time to do a thorough job on design and testing. Should be a very capable aircraft, but it won't be cheap.
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    That's a lot of money to spend on a model.
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    What would be the point of flying a jetski or quad bike to open water at great expense when they typically launch off the beach or a boat ramp for nothing? As Onetrack said, it's very hard to see any commercial justification for a new amphibian, at least in Australia. As a tourist transport in the Caribbean or the Great Barrier Reef it might have more value, but there are floatplanes that already service that market, so it would face stiff competition.
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    I wouldn't put carpet anywhere near the prop but definitely sweep away all the gravel from the area and anything else that's loose.
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    Interesting colourised footage of this well known story. A lot of it looks like real footage but some looks like AI to me.
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    Beach umbrella would look good on the grader (a couple of pages back).
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    Some interesting aircraft from early airline days:
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    Did she ever fly it and where is it now? There's a jet powered Cri Cri at our airfield. Not as pretty as the BD5 but unique in it's own right.
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    I follow both sites but my preference would be to keep them separate. It’s ‘cleaner’ that way, but I don’t run the sites so whatever works best for you is OK with me.
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    There's a lot of very useful information in this document from Vans: Section 5 General Information - Van's Aircraft Total Performance RV Kit Planes WWW.VANSAIRCRAFT.COM
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    Same here. Just realised how much time I waste most days. 👍
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    Hope you’ve told them why you’re leaving. “ Sorry guys, nothing personal but …”
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    Yes, still wondering how it's going.
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    I wonder how much their insurance premiums were?
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    If you attach the adaptor at right angles to the torque wrench there is no need to adjust the recommended torque.
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    You may want to consider White Gum Airpark east of York. YWGM Airpark - YWGM WWW.YWGM.COM.AU AIrcraft Hangar & Accommodation Units
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