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spacesailor

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  1. IF ! YOU chop your own props ! . You can customise them , to whatever suits your airframe , take-off, climb , cruise and economy. It appears a lot of smaller engines ' like ' a wooden propeller . Also your wallet really likes them as too . spacesailor
  2. The only difference, that make a tail wheel twitchy. Is the distance between those wheels. If you come All the way down to 3 Mars between the wheels , It Is Twitchy. spacesailor
  3. Nothing wrong with the tail -wheel, behind the mains , behind the motor . Long eze , of course . spacesailor
  4. Move the ' horizontal stabiliser ' to give a better result , on the ' elevator ' incidence. IF your design allows such adjustments. spacesailor
  5. Shouldn't the ' fuel burn ' be more important than just " piston " engine ! . I mean , a Cessna six cylinder has better fuel economy than that same ' airframe ' running a " turboprop " engine . ( Ltrs er hour. ) . spacesailor
  6. I have ' the lot ' BA , whitworth, Af , bicycle , a few DIN , & of COURSE , French Si metric . Oops sorry ! , NO Japanese metric . Plus Pipe , gas , and gas bottle spanners and all the ' taps & dies . A life long accumulated five toolbox set . Were will that lot go , when I'm gone ? . LoL not bloody going . spacesailor
  7. " Imperial " from ' emperor '. So must be French under " Emperor Napoleon " . As England has never had an emperor!. spacesailor
  8. RR Merlin Originally two straight sixes, welded together. No one thinks it's two engines . spacesailor
  9. They could have given the US , That Eiffel ltower ! As it was supposed to be for One exhibition only . spacesailor
  10. USA uses the French left hand-drive . As it was France the kicked England out of the America's It was France that changed , From the Right hand drive . And gave us ' metric time ' , 10 hour day ,100 minutes per hour , 100 seconds per minute. I still don't like it, do you ! . spacesailor
  11. " US or British units " . I believe they Don't us the ENGLISH. " BA " , SYSTEM. " British Association of screw threads ". AND England uses the French metric system . It was France that changed , From the Right hand drive . spacesailor
  12. METRIC. A French system. To rule the world . Removed the " Greenwich " meridian , the new meridian is Paris France. Removed the ' standard ' calender. The new " Republican calander 1793 " which stopped the Catholics finding their Sundays for " mass ". 10 hours a day , 100 minutes per hour 100 seconds per minute. Only three countries are imperial! . United States . Liberia & Burma. renamed Myanmar. SO Why does the USA call ' their System ' Imperial? . spacesailor
  13. AND IF YOU HAD ! . A large volume motor , wouldn't you wind it up a couple of times , just to see that 200 kmrs per hour on Your dial . Yippee Thanks, Australia for letting us revheads have ONE road . UNREGULATED FOR SPEED . Stuart highway NT It maybe restricted now to 130 klmrs p hour . SHAME ON THEM . Nò more ' expensive ' Bentley GT's going faster then light aircraft ! . ( 330 klmts p h ). spacesailor
  14. OR ,!!!! Work Against CASA's Bureaucrocrats. It may send a message ! . Or are they really ' that thick ' . I don't like Bureaucrocrats, & won't play with them . spacesailor
  15. SO , what IS the secret to immortality ? . When I was skinny they tried to Fatten me up. Now, I look Good at 95 klgms . The same people want me ' blooody ' skinny. I'm Not fat !. Just short , for that crook BMI . spacesailor
  16. I went to a ' heart specialist ' . When I asked ' if ' there was something wrong . They answered. It's all in the cloud. So I cancelled my next appointment, & I feel much better for it.( never had a heart test since). spacesailor
  17. Why do most pitot's have the bent piping , If you use a straight pitot with a bent plastic elbow , shouldn't it work the same ? . Pipe- elbow , tubing , Instrument . I just thought about Mr King's H bird modification. Straight piece of alloy, That screwed into receptacle. spacesailor
  18. I bought a ' simple ' static , from A S ,and like you say $ 16 for very light ' bent alloy tube ' , with $ 32 for postage . The post-packet weighed more than the ally tube . Yes , I tried unsuccessfully a lot of times to make that tube bend to it's 90 deg shape . I have seen a modified ' pito tube ' on 19- 1944 Hummel Bird . spacesailor
  19. The ' ethanol ' destroyed my garden tool motors. Just blocked all the carby's by blocking the jets . spacesailor
  20. All this ' helmet ' , argument's , IS THE SAME AS the 1960's argument. When England enforced all motorcycle riders to wear a helmet . OR, In my case, don't ride if it's so dangerous. spacesailor PS When Are they , going to outlaw , " passenger trailer's " .
  21. I have a ' phone-camera ' , but when photographing wild-life, they're gone before the pics in the bag , ( bag for removing old-style film ). So not as good as a " box brownie " . No set up and no focusing. spacesailor
  22. That's the worst of ' front-wheel ' drive , everything in the one place . spacesailor
  23. Talking of fore & after c g ! . A trijet lost elevator control , ( worn worm screw ) & only just made a landing. Could using ' pax ' to move C of G to enhance Flyability. It seems a little far-fetched that All those ' searbelted people ' would not help ' themselves ' to keep ' Their ' aircraft in a stable' flight configuration . spacesailor
  24. WELL !, There you are , And no " dashcam " to record it . Funny how those prolific cameras , are not there when needed. spacesailor
  25. OR They went smaller ! . Just DNA , chemicals AND the best ' AI ' ever , to bring a " humanoid " all seeing Godlike being to ' life ' , to gather ' intel ' .On our Animal world . spacesailor
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