Marty_d

Hi Ian, Off topic (socialaustralia.com.au) seems to have a problem, doesn't load up, just sits there spinning its wheel forever. It was really slow last night too, and again, when I tried to post a pic it was inverted. (I tried to fool it by making a copy of the pic and rotating it so it was inverted, then uploading that, but it remained inverted. If I didn't know better I'd think someone had hacked the upload thing for a joke!) Cheers, Marty

So that's how Santa moves like Lightning... Merry christmas everyone, all the best to you and your families.

Why don't you choose a girlfriend WITH a sense of humour? 😁

That is true, Nev, but I think your average A320 pilot is a bit higher trained than Phil Bloggs who's crashed five RTF polystyrene electrics and has just, after six attempts, got his "bronze" rating by being able to do a loop and flick roll followed by the plane remaining in one piece after landing.

What, and trust some other bugger to control it while you're hanging on??

And that landing was a corker. Don't think I've seen a better touch down with an RC model.

How could they be "forced to eject" when the aircraft (looking remarkably undamaged apart from the sooty bit around the cockpit - ejection rocket burn?) - is trundling along on the ground at walking pace?? My totally uninformed guess is that someone accidentally punched them out...

Would it be hard to segregate if you brought it back? For instance you could have the "what's new" buttons only giving aviation stuff and a separate "what's new-off topic" to give all off topic stuff. I don't mind one way or another but saving you money would be good!

Not sure what crop is in that paddock, looks like grass to me. But then I'm not a farmer!

I think he did a great job. Even had the prop stopped horizontally so it didn't hit anything. At least he didn't hit the other big rock in Stanley...

Especially if you're looking for one without a cowling, and you add "nude", "bare", "undressed", or "with bits hanging out"

As far as I know, the 80hp Rotax is a 4 stroke...

I think the instructor was the clown there. Jeez that put the pucker factor on, especially when the camera inverted - I thought they'd gone in then.

I would agree that the guy is a highly experienced jumper, even without knowing who he is you can see his skill with maintaining different attitudes in free fall. However I would also say that there is a lot that can go wrong with trying to attach harnesses (looks like he's hiding some straps under the shorts) while going straight down at 220km/h. I've done a tandem jump - just one, which I admit is not a great deal of experience, but there was a lot of strapping together and adjusting and tightening stuff and double checking before we jumped out of the plane. Not a lot of time for that when you have to link up with someone else after your solo free fall.

I can't edit the previous post now, but @red750 kindly brightened up the photo.

Hi Ian, Bit of a strange one, I just uploaded a photo in my "Marty_d's CH-701 build log" thread, and it comes out rotated 180 degrees (so upside down). It's the right way up in my folder on the computer. Any ideas? Tried to edit the post but there's no way, as far as I can see, to rotate images. Cheers, Marty

Got the welded up exhaust tubes back from the welder a couple of weeks ago, only just got an hour to test fit. I also bought a threaded stud and 8 new lock nuts from Bert Flood, but for this fit just used the original nuts. It's gone on mostly ok but the ball of one of the long pipes is not quite seating. Not sure whether to get the welder to cut and insert a very short length to make it a bit longer - any advice?? Sorry about the darkness of the photo - need some more light in the shed!

Sorry to hear about the quarantine, but it'd be an experience having only 3 people in a brand new A321. Do you have to compensate for the missing weight of pax + luggage at all, or just fly empty? Guessing handling would be a bit different?

You too Don. All the best mate.

It really is a silly compromise. Either something flies well or it drives well - can't have both. Not sure how much these whizzbang Inspector Gadget car/planes go for, but willing to bet for the same money you could have a beautiful trailered aircraft and a top of the line 4WD to tow it with.

I liked the gratuitous bum shots at seconds 5 and 8. Oh, and the rocketeer dunking.

Just googled them, the Thatcher CX4 is a lovely looking aircraft.

http://www.zenithair.com/stolch701/data/7-c-0.gif CH701 is pretty much the same as Sav. As you can see from the drawing, the Y-stick is connected to a torque tube with fixed horn on the back. That horn has threaded rod running to the inner end of horns that centre pivot on the mixer. It doesn't show it in this picture, but the outside of those horns have a rod which is connected to a fixed horn on the flaperon. So sideways movement on the stick rotates the whole torque tube and pulls/pushes on the mixer horns to move the flaperons. Mixer is pivot mounted at the front so the flap handle can move the entire mixer forward or back, which lowers or raises the flaperons.

The nursing home staff probably already give them to your Grandad. Stops him rolling out of bed at night...