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    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-12/passenger-lands-plane-in-florida-no-idea-how-to-fly/101059472
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    She's a beauty for sure, but MTOW is fairly low at 472.5kg. If it takes 70L of fuel that's around 50kg, leaves only 125kg for pilot, passenger and luggage. Not sure I can fit passenger and luggage in 25kg!
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    Hale & Pace did a good song about a Real Estate company - R. Sole & Sons.
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    I was wondering why he kept the prop spinning at the pre takeoff checks. It's not like he has to wait for the oil temp to rise or check the magneto drop.
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    I'm sorry, Russia invades Ukraine and somehow it's America's fault?? The USA has done some godawful things in the past but I don't think you can lay this one at their door. As for getting a balanced point of view - that's kind of like saying we should give equal weight to the medical opinions of anti-vaxxers. Look at the results so far. Cities shelled and bombarded. Thousands of civilians dead. Mass graves. Bodies with signs of torture. Remind me again of how many of those are Russian civilians in Russia?
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    I've just finished reading "Liftoff" - the SpaceX story. Good read actually. But they've put a heap of crap up there all by themselves, imagine how much is going up from every other bugger launching stuff.
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    Collins says that "vis" is the French for screw, "écrou" is definitely nut.
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    Castellated nut: German: Kronenmutter French: écrou crénelé Italian: noce castellata Looks like they got it sorted!
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    Cowl is on, held with dzus. I did the "Bob's check pilot" test and yanked side to side on the cowl, it's solid and just moved the whole plane.
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    Yeah fibreglassing is fill, sand, repeat. Looking good Mark.
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    Bloody hell you work fast Mark. Slow down - you're making the rest of us look bad!
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    Hi Derek, I'm interested in which bit of the plans you found erroneous. I picked up a 20mm difference in where the plans showed the slat holder slots to be and where they actually should be, but that's the only thing. (So far - still have to do the struts and mount the wings!)
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    It goes outside, Bob. It's a bit strange in that the upper cowl actually goes inside the lower one, but it just fits better that way. Pleased that the dzus are nice and tight on the 2 layers of cowl, so I guess I'll have to pack out the springs for the ones that go on to the aluminium.
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    I've now got 10 out of the 19 DZUS installed - 4 each side and one each side of the prop hole.
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    At 540kph I can't see it dodging sailboats. As long as the mast is under 10m they should be fine...
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    100 passengers = 100 oars...
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    Good idea, thanks Mike.
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    I already had it clecoed in all joining positions - around 16-20 I think, so the holes were already in position in 1/8". I made a guide with 3 holes in the position of the DZUS centre hole and the 2 rivet holes, all 1/8", so I just cleco the guide to the existing holes, drill and countersink the other two, cleco the thin aluminium supports on the outside to guide expanding the middle hole to 10.5mm - then flip them to the inside and rivet them and the spring thingy together. Then expand the outer cowl's hole to 10.5 as well (using a step drill seemed to work well and keep it centred).
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    Installed some dzus on the cowl - only got 2 done. Fiddly but work well, so I'm happy with that.
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    Exactly - same reason everyone uses 18v power tools. Sometimes you want to go places you can't get to with a cord.
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    The thing about hydrogen, for cars anyway, is that it doesn't make sense. You use a lot of electric power to produce it - so why not just use electricity? It's an added layer of complication and power wastage.
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    She's a beautiful aircraft. All the bells & whistles too.
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    Xi'an Y-20

    Marty_d commented on red750's aircraft in Military

    Certainly bears a remarkable resemblance to the C-17.
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    I notice that you haven't listed anything to do with climate change, health or education, which I would put way above roads, sporting clubs and men's sheds in importance. No offence - but they're responsible for tackling the big problems, which they aren't doing.
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    Yeah I read that today and agree with everyone - totally uninspiring and unconvincing pile of horse dung. You expect actual representatives of a government body - whose job it is - to attempt, no matter how half heartedly, to justify the policies they're paid to implement. You don't expect it from an academic.
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