Marty_d

TWO planes and a motorbike in the garage! Lovely. 

Is there a best practice for aircraft weighing,  on normal scales?

Was there an alternative to lockwire? 

I have a vague recollection of someone saying some sort of welding wire was exactly the same and much lower in price. 

Not an expert here but I assume the design of the aircraft itself would have some impact on your regular angle of descent.  Drifter vs plastic fantastic, kind of thing.

Second jury strut done.  

(Which is when I discovered I've run out of AN3-6A bolts, and the AN3 washers.  Where's the best place to get these in Aus?)

We lived in Hervey Bay for a while when I was young.  Too hot.  Went back to Tassie.

I think both of you mean "brazed" unless you're talking about meat.

That's a beautiful landing.

Thanks Mike, that's a great idea. 

The developer may have written the article themselves and sent it to the magazine. 

I worked with a bloke whose wife sent a couple of articles to the local rag, they were just published without contact or fact checking. 

Thanks Planey!

Got one jury strut done today, the lessons learned from that should make the other one easier. 

This has been a great long weekend so far - Anzac Day, most of Friday and today I worked on getting the wings on properly.

As of this afternoon they're both supporting themselves with the struts and wing bolts in.  Still got the jury struts to do (bit more work in them, have to make the steel brackets) but it's a fantastic feeling to see her sitting there with wings!

Feels nice and solid too.  There's no slop at all - if you move one wingtip, the whole aircraft rocks.

2 hours ago, Freizeitpilot said:

Well, I had a bloke tell me once that the green cable that goes to a metal spike in the ground from your house is how the Guv’mint spies on you, and ‘they’ will insert a 5G chip into you when you get the Covid vaccination  He also mentioned that you get lots of energy through the soles of your feet, and that’s why surf lifesavers are so fit, because they walk around barefoot on the sand all the time.

 

Beware - they’re out there !

Well, it's his choice to remove the earth spike, but he has to live with the consequences!

1 hour ago, danny_galaga said:

Goddam, this is gonna get the chemtrail nutters going.

 

Beautiful, no?

 

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240423.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR301oZbYkQulRE2i8FUHQ8yws6P72CyeCmVrfSHdMaVqJQPjnd9hQdD_NQ_aem_AfPYSAOmLxNASaD8o_3C6o08cfZU6ES9r_M_R6FJ1MvRkHfIY9wGyZk3TstFBU1LgKO1Kds8T6YbXi6bZ6JbP7bj

 

Commissioned by Elon.

Wings!!  Bloody annoying trying to get them on and off by yourself, without dropping, scratching, bumping or otherwise damaging the buggers.

No wonder all the advice I read says to get 2 people on it.  Trouble is I'm generally working on the plane by myself (except for @nomadpete's invaluable assistance with electrical stuff), so I really needed a way to support the wing and be able to shift it up to the fuselage by myself.

Some measuring and half an afternoon's building later, the wing tower is born.  Braced in all 3 planes and designed to sit on the wheeled dolly that holds the wings when they're off.  It's the right size on the top to support the wing cradle, which can be slid back or forward to get some fine adjustment in the vertical height (it's angled to give incidence).

I only had time to drop it up to the shed and put the wing on it, didn't have time to attempt a fitting, but it moves ok and seems to put the mounting points at the right height and incidence.

Ya know, them chemi... chemic... stuff things that like give ya that Cowvid and shit.  

Not surprising, they've elected some real nut jobs.  Some of the stuff Marjorie Taylor Greene spouts goes way beyond tinfoil hat.

Pardon my ignorance here as someone who is not yet flying - but if you currently hold an RA-Aus pilot certificate because you fly your Aeropup or Jab or whatever, doesn't that cover a 95.10 aircraft too?  Or do you need type training, and if so, how do you get that in a single seat ultralight anyway?

Wright Cyclone-powered RV... can you imagine the maintenance and running costs of a Sikorsky S-58?  

Zoning only works up until someone who wants it changed is mates with a councillor.

As Danny points out there's drones and drones.  What I was very tongue-in-cheek referring to is a Foxbat filled with explosives which is only required to do one flight.  However for the loitering/missile-carrying ones you need reliability over many hours.

That happens a bit around here.

We drove past Lethbridge the other day.  Not that far from Ballarat which seems to have a sizeable LAME presence.

It's like every speed limit sign being blank until you pay to see what it is.  Utter stupidity.

27 minutes ago, danny_galaga said:

Just watched the other video where the American importer is interviewed. Interesting to note ZD first market for their 912 was the UAV market, my thoughts on Ukraine have a precedent 😄

You don't need a 2,000 hour TBO if the majority of engines make one flight in the general direction of Russia.