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She's got lots of Sav bits in her but I hesitate to call her MaZenSav.

Yeah fuel spills are a big worry especially as there's a top window as well and the wing root skins fair down onto it. So any fuel spilled will go there. I've been thinking that perhaps I should put a gate on the first full rib to stop any leaks from getting past it, they can just run to the leading or trailing edge and drip to the ground. Thoughts?

I've done a few things in the last couple of weeks. Bought some hose clamps (thanks @skippydiesel for the Icon 35 advice, they fit perfectly) so the cooling system is now all hooked up. Started thinking about seat cushions and seatbelts. I picked up a couple of front seats from a written off Mazda 2, removed the frames and covers and went to work with a breadknife. Quite happy with the result both look and feel, so now "just" a matter of re-covering. Shouldn't be impossible as I have the original covers as a pattern. There's a couple of rips in those and they're a bit boring in colour so I can't really reuse them. Also glued on the felt cover over the top of the dash, looks nice and neat now.

I think you meant "Horrible"

I like it.

Well, we can all bitch and moan about various government services not sharing your ID with each other, but the simple fact is that we had a chance to get a national identity card in 1985 - but due to some legislative flaws and an opposition playing politics, it never happened.

They may equate your fabric covered aircraft with a scratching post...

Beautiful job - looks like it just came out of the factory. In a few years will it get some micro-meteorite hits and maybe some Cylon burns?

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But the government lawyers would point out that the ASIC card has prevented 5000 serious security threats, none of which you can know about because of national security.

Welcome Andrew!

There's one of them sitting in a paddock slightly north of Campbell Town in Tas, you can see it from highway 1. Been there for years. If you look at Google Maps with the satellite feature you can spot it. To the right of the highway as you're going north.

Any advance on 990? Going once... going twice...

Glad you're ok. Are you going to rebuild?

Yep

Only 2 rows of 9.

It was also vomit making.

My screens are polycarbonate rather than acrylic, not sure if that makes a difference. But I like the idea of detergent in water anyway.

They had dunnies on 1920's passenger planes?

What about those racing yachts that leave the water with only the hydrofoil in? By that logic to remain classified as a boat, all a WIG needs is to trail a short string that's always in contact with the water. They could even put a lure on the end.

Of course they can! Haven't you heard of the Flymo?

No, but I've lived there. I'm reading Billy Connolly's autobiography at the moment, it has a few chuckles. I laughed out loud when he described visiting Ireland and a woman came up to him and said "You're Billy Connolly! Sure, you're the spitting image of yourself!" There's a reason we laugh at them.

The voiceover said "Scrap aircraft engine" so it may well have been cheap. Looking at what it's made of, there wouldn't be a massive material cost. "Wings" being "bouncy castle material" over 2 lengths of ally tube. Nice looking design, not sure how stable it'd be.

I mucked around a bit and worked out how to seat the front of the door properly, and also seat the bottom sides of the windscreen. For the door, a Z-profile bit of 0.025" does the trick, providing a narrow sill for the front to go into. I've put a small self-adhering rubber along the inside of the door, with holes cut where it goes over the rivets, and the door is pretty tight so I'm hoping it's fume-proof to some extent. For the lower sides of the windscreen, a flat piece of 0.016" cut to shape is riveted to the fuse below the edge of the windscreen. This has turned out quite neat so I don't know that I'll even need rubber. I've also test fitted some black felt above the dash, still need to trim then stick it on with spray adhesive before riveting & screwing the windscreen into place. Ripped off the protective plastic too - for the first time I can sit inside the plane and look out through the screen, I really need the internal windscreen wipers for the "brrrrrr" noises now...

I don't know, I only got it about a week ago. Only used PLA, don't want to mess with the settings too much.