Marty_d

I guess you're always far more likely to pull excess positive than negative. Reefing it too hard into a turn or pulling out of a dive will load up positive g, whereas not many people do a severe bunt or outside loop. At -3.5g I'd be pushing around 350kg upwards against the seatbelt. Fairly unlikely unless you're in a Pitts Special or similar.

What if you replicated the ID plate?

Be the bargain of the century if the trailer came with it!

That's the origin, apparently. "M'aider" or "m'aidez". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayday

And if you don't spell it with the T, you can't rearrange the letters to form "Zenith". Sad to hear. He was obviously a bloody good designer.

When there's significant takeup of EV, I'd agree with you. But until then there's such a price disparity to begin with that governments should be doing everything they can to encourage it, not the opposite. At the moment EV's make such a small percentage of all vehicles that taxing them will result in negligible gain while acting to suppress demand.

What's the approximate cost of that system from Geiger? Given 31kg I'm guessing 2 battery packs?

If Mars CASA doesn't do a ramp check, they're all good.

Soooo... Australia is buying fuel and then putting it back in the ground? Is that the ultimate "direct action" by the coalition? Paying US oil companies to extract oil then put it back? (tongue is firmly in cheek, I know irony doesn't always come through online...)

Hard to imagine a heat-seeker getting through that lot!

Congratulations!!

Sounds idyllic, but what about the "runway picture" for judging your descent?

I would love to build an electric Spitfire. You could always hang a couple of huge speaker cones in the engine bay and run a soundtrack of a Merlin.

Funny how that happens, when you stack the committee with people who work in/own/have substantial interests in gas.

PM sent. Although I'm quite happy to send them to you, if I was doing it over again, I'd get the 750 plans instead. The 701 has MTOW of 500kg where the 750 has 600.

Been a while!! I finally bit the bullet and did a test piece from gel coat + 2x layers of carbon fibre + peel ply, using polyester resin. I bought an oven tin so I didn't destroy any of my wife's existing ones, did the gel coat first with a paintbrush (might use roller for bigger pieces) then let it cure for a week or 2 before doing the rest. I used 6 x coats of wax, buffed back each time, then a spray release just before the gel coat. It worked a treat - popped out of the mould perfectly. While I'm very happy with the mould release and the gel coat, I put in way too much resin and the part is heavier than it should be. In one photo of the interior you can see one perfect bit where the carbon fibre is showing a shiny coat of resin, the rest is all too thick. I will be far more sparing in application on the real thing.

Look, there's a documentary about what happens when you give military hardware too much autonomy - it's called "The Terminator". (Ok, so it's not a documentary, but bloody good series of movies! One of the rare ones where the sequel is much better than the first.) The decision to deliberately take a human life - and the responsibility for doing so - must always rest with a human.

It was getting hot in there. He's just sticking his head out for some cooling.

Defense acquisition is never about value for money. If Russia or China produced a 5th generation fighter that outflew and outgunned anything that a five eyes country produced, at 1/10th of the price, we still wouldn't get it.

That was Head In The Clouds, I think.

Hey folks, Currently in our caravan at Crayfish Creek, leaving tomorrow or Wednesday. Any builders / flyers in the local area who have an aircraft I can drool over? Cheers, Marty

Wow, that went sideways fast. It was just about the planes for me, and let's face it, if it's happening anywhere else in Aus but your place, you don't get to see them live anyway.

On now (ABC TV) - hopefully they'll repeat it. Just saw some warbirds - Mustang, Spits, Wirraway, Catalina, DC3, etc etc - plus 3x F35, standard Hornets, Super Hornets, Growler, KC-35's, C-17's, now showing Roulettes. Fantastic day in Canberra by the looks of it - wish I was on the banks of Burley Griffin watching!

Where d'you find one of those Lisa Juicy figures? 😄

Cheers Gareth, it was good talking with you! Funny bumping into you again at the restaurant today, but Hobart's a small place. Glad you got home ok and hope QLD clears up this latest cluster pretty quick.