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Marty_d

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  1. Watched "Flight" (starring Denzel Washington) the other night on DVD.

     

    While the movie is more about alcohol abuse than flying, there is a fairly gripping flying scene, where he uses a novel method of pulling an MD-80 with elevators jammed down out of a terminal dive.

     

    Despite the serious and somewhat tragic plot line, I thought it was a good watch!

     

     

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  2. Why would it need control surfaces? If you were just substituting the dacron for ali it is still a weight shift wing.Other than ease of transport for the dacron wing cost of construction materials and time to build not to mention increased weight. No doubt someone somewhere has tried this in the past.

    See posts #5 and #6, apparently it's not that simple.

     

     

  3. I'm not a trike enthusiast (despite having flown a hang glider in the distant past), but just curious.

     

    Why hasn't someone built a trike wing out of aluminium?

     

    Yes, you'd lose the ability to pack it away - but from what I've seen, many trikes seem to spend their non-flying time in a hangar anyway.

     

    Weight - would it be much more? Spars and ribs made of 0.025" 6061-T6, skinned with 0.016"... how would that compare with rag and tube?

     

    And being made from aluminium, no more need to worry about mice/moths/fading/brittleness/battens deforming / whatever else worries fabric.

     

    Now tell me why it's a bad idea... 052_no_way.gif.ab8ffebe253e71283aa356aade003836.gif

     

     

  4. Reminds me of the one about Yanos the Greek...

     

    Yanos is a tour guide showing a group of tourists around his village.

     

    "You see this house? I design this house. But nobody call me 'Yanos the architect'."

     

    A little while later the group is down at the harbour.

     

    "You see this sailboat? I make this sailboat. But nobody call me 'Yanos the boat builder'."

     

    Shortly after he's showing them the local municipal buildings.

     

    "You see this buildings? I ran the council here for a time. But nobody call me 'Yanos the mayor'."

     

    Yanos sighs sadly and shakes his head. "But you f*ck one goat...!"

     

     

  5. Hmm, bit confused as to why someone thought that was funny.

     

    Any sheet metal fabricator will have a bending brake that'll handle 2.2m easy. Just today I visited my local sheet metal worker to do the 21 degree bend on the lower trailing edge skin.

     

     

  6. No lolly shall have as a constituent element any:-

    1) preservatives, whether natural or unnatural

     

    2) sugar, or artificial sweeteners

     

    3) anything that has been shown at some point in time to be an allergan to a human somewhere

     

    4) No Lipitor (ABC showed it was bad!!!)

     

    5) product that can be shown to have contributed to global warming and release of carbon dioxide

     

    6) NBN...cause that simply costs too much and besides a wireless lolly will do just as well

     

    Phew....silliness over for the most parts for another post!

     

    Andy

    Instead of lollies, maybe we should do baked beans, carefully washed of the tomato sauce of course. (or if you don't like the crowd, still in the tin).

     

    Because as Tony Windsor said, "Do it once, do it right, do it with fibre!"

     

    How about using popcorn instead? It wouldn't take any eyes out, and it'd be funny to land the plane before it hit the ground.

     

     

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