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Streamline Aluminium Strut supplier?
derekliston replied to Pookemon's topic in Aircraft Building and Design Discussion
I bought streamline tube for my CH701 from Hughes Lightwing factory in Ballina. -
What is more annoying is that there is another post on here about the Seamew and Airtruk!!! Yet nobody picked it before pmccarthy! Well done that man.
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It states ten built? There were not many but I think more than ten and if you include the Bulldog, rather more?
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Only company I can think of in UK that might have built something like that and only ten of them would be Britten Norman, but if it is, I can find nothing about it!
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I’m not sure quite what counts as a third world airline? I have flown Cathay Pacific several times and have never been concerned, on the other hand I have done one return trip Air India Sydney-London and quite honestly would rather walk than ever fly with them again. It would take pages to describe that experience!
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I have a PPL but fly a Zenith CH701 which can also be registered RAA. Be aware that most of the Cessnas and Pipers are getting quite long in the tooth unless you want to fork out nearly the price of a QLD house for a new one. The high wing Cessnas are affected by the SIDS programme, get someone who knows more than I do to explain that one to you. Piper PA28 series aircraft have also just f recently been hit with an airworthiness directive which could see owners forking out a small fortune and in some cases perhaps scrapping their aircraft! The lighter recreational types are definitely the way to go now in my view. You will find a lot of Jabiru haters on this forum but it is I suspect, the most successful Australian designed and built aircraft ever! It is available in several versions, one of which I am sure would accommodate you and a passenger, but talk to Jabiru aircraft Bundaberg for better, fuller information.
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Baron accident adelaide
derekliston replied to derekliston's topic in Aircraft Incidents and Accidents
You wouldn’t retract the mains and cause more damage I wouldn’t think! As it is, relatively minor airframe damage but probably bloody expensive bulk strips on engines due to prop strikes! What say you Nev? -
I really find it hard to believe all the hype on the television news about the ‘miraculous’ landing and ‘amazing’ survival of the instructor and student because the nose wheel didn’t extend. I saw it at least four times on ABC alone last night and this morning! Why do they like to dramatise minor problems to that extent?
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If Britain had done that with every one of a kind single example aircraft they built, the country wouldn’t have enough museum space to house them! Tragedy, true, but RAF Cosford isn’t a bad attempt at saving unique machines.
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It must have flown over Edinburgh at some stage since I remember my Mother taking me out to the street to see it fly over. I was born in 1947 so must have been very young if it was broken up in 1953!
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ABG which was Coriolanus and the last one to be broken up, is now the registration on my Zenith CH701. People ask me why I don’t change over to a recreational reg. But as a lifelong aviation nutter why would I?
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I think this is an absolutely horrendous thing to happen and I really feel for his family but for all the Jabiru knockers out there please note ALL aircraft engines can fail irrespective of make!
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I actually realised that after I posted, but it is very reminiscent!
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Looks like a demoiselle! Was it Santos Dumont?
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Don’t countersink thin skins, use a dimpling tool. Several types available but the one I found most useful was from Aircraft Spruce, it utilises a male and a female die and has a 1/8” diameter nail through the middle and is operated with a set of pop rivet pliers. I also have a pair of dimpling anvils for a hand rivet squeezer but that is limiting for distance from edge. If in fact you need to countersink thicker material, buy a countersink tool specific to aircraft rivets because of the countersink angle. If dimpling you need to dimple both the skin and the rib flange behind it! I hope this helps.
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Fairey Rotodyne - VTOL Passenger Transport
derekliston commented on old man emu's aircraft in Rotorcraft
I had the Airfix 1/72 model. Another example of brilliant British aero-engineering which came to nothing. I believe one problem for city centre work was that it was incredibly noisy with the rotors under power. -
Didn’t really think so, but it was the closest thing I could find!
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Keleher Lark?
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Without wishing to cause too much thread drift I have a story about Beagle. As a young know it all apprentice I visited Rearsby in the very early days of Beagle. I was actually doing an aircraft design course at Loughborough University ( I like telling people that, but it was actually a short course for amateurs held at the University over an Easter weekend!) Anyway, part of it was a visit to Beagle and I with all my knowledge told them that the Pup, with all it’s stretch formed skins, dissimilar material welding and complex oleo style main undercarriage was too complex to be a success. Strangely I was right. At that time they had two light twins, the B206 and another which was smaller and I don’t think went into production.
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Interesting, another dog! Shame though, it was a pretty aeroplane!
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Do you ever wonder if Beagle failed because they were all dogs, literally, Terrier, Airedale, Pup and Bulldog? I don’t remember if the twins had names, only remember their numbers!
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I used to help service one back around 1965 in Edinburgh. Quite a luxurious machine although typical early Beagle, probably heavy for what was the British equivalent of a C172. Had an interesting, supposedly thrust augmenter exhaust system.
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Possibly wrong but looks a lot like a Beagle Airedale?
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13. Thoughts so far, or great expectations
derekliston commented on danny_galaga's blog entry in Skyreach Bushcat LSA build
My CH701 sat untouched for two years because I was so pissed off with trying to interpret the plans. Eventually got back to work and finished it because it was worth nothing as a pile of bits if I wanted to sell it. I’ve been flying it for about four years now and I’m really glad I persevered.
