Marty_d

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!

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.

I will NOT be telling my wife that one.

It wouldn't be. But then again I've always wondered why they need a 100hp engine.

There you go then... this is why I love this site! Always learning.

I guess control surfaces would be needed then, which adds to weight & complexity. Still doable but maybe not enough reason to do it.

How do you suggest control would be effected on such a device ?

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...

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...!"

Not sure if there's an official definition, but generally it's one that only your kids will laugh at.

The local nursing home started giving Viagra to the male residents every night. Stops them rolling out of bed.

With an"S" added it's not funny... Slaughter For cows and bulls etc. That joke reminds me of a Camel joke and a high ranking british officer. Nev

A cross-dressing one at that... isn't that Wonder Woman's outfit??

I just read that out to my wife. She sighed and said "So all pilots tell daddy jokes..."

Mines in Swedish, No idea what SHE says........but I'd LIKE to meet HER

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.

On the weekend there was a skydiving woman who landed in a moving mustang (on purpose)... Crazy

don't you mean you had to oogle her too

Oogle: To google celebrities in the hopes of finding images of them in a state of undress...

Sadly, I had to use Google to find out who she was.rgmwa

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Surely someone could manufacture lollies shaped like sycamore seeds. Problem solved.

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

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.

Aw shucks

Dust them in opium powder beforehand so as to ease any pain....

Spirit of Tasmania cruises at 27 knots. If you fly a zig-zag pattern over (and slightly ahead of) it, then you've got a guaranteed pick up if you ditch. And it's got a fully stocked bar to assist recovery.

Just sayin!

Guess it'd take too long to tie a little parachute to each lolly...