Marty_d

Brilliant work. I'm hoping to do some printing soon, just ordered a Creality Ender 5 Plus.

At least he's a lot cleaner now. May have been less painful to use a birdbath.

Hope they got naming permission from Paramount... (Klingon Bird of Prey from Star Trek).

Guess it'd be important to do that on a stretch of road which didn't have any overpasses...

Depends if they liked the truck driver or not...

No. Those who contributed bear no responsibility for the disaster. You weren't involved in the engineering, the planning, the test schedule or the flying. If you have no input whatsoever into the decisions that led to the crash, then you can't have responsibility.

Why don't they freight them by sea? Surely there wouldn't be the same stringent requirements.

Very neat work Mark.

IBob is the man. Without his help my 701 wouldn't be as far along. Bob, how is the park brake done? Is it just a tap between the hoses so you push your toe brakes in then turn it to keep the pressure on the calipers?

Just fly in a wetsuit. It will be anyway, afterwards.

I think it's the ones who are awake and flashing you have to watch out for.

I like it, but wouldn't be registerable in Australia - that pointy spinner wouldn't be great for pedestrians...

Mark, I will be very pissed off if you finish 3 planes before I finish my first!

Bit by bit I've been ordering bits from evilbay and putting together the fuel system. Manifold has the limiters tapped and loctited in the rear two outlets, starboard is return line to wing tank, 1/4 ally line going thru gland in the firewall, thru corner of dash, up beside the cabin tube and into the sill above the door and thence out to a quick release to the wing tank. Port tune snakes around and thru the firewall above the passenger throttle rod, I have a barb fitted to the gauge so short rubber connection there too. 1/4 rubber lines are sheathed in fireproof cover, I have a bit left over so will cover as much as I can of the return / pressure gauge lines too when the next shipment of hose clamps arrives.

Has your wife made you a massive list of everything she wants done now that you have all this "spare time"?

Why on earth does your Google Maps location think that Frankston 3199 is in the UK?

At 60 litres of fuel and 9 litres of oil per hour... expensive to run!

Jeez they've used that airframe for some interesting tests...

I thought jets were more efficient at higher speeds, is all. For that design you could put a Rotax under the pilot, have the radiator where the "chest intake" is, then a long prop shaft forward above it to clear the pilot and a pointy yellow spinner at the front. Then it'd look like he was riding a goose.

I don't mind the look of it, kind of like riding an albatross. One without a head maybe.

Is it just me, or is there something weird about having a jet engine on something with "Max speed: 70km/h"?

That wasn't a great advertisement for them. Where did he get the time though - built 2 planes then had to rebuild them both - I'm having trouble completing 1!!

I notice when you click on that link that Repco also sell "Demineralised" water. Is it necessary to use that as a mixer or is normal filtered water usable?

One of the complicated bits is the power crossover system. If I recall correctly it's a driveshaft system which transfers power from a working engine to the opposite rotor should that engine fail.

I always thought the Osprey had more than its fair share of crashes, but I listened to an expert on RN today say that for US forces, the number of Osprey crashes were not markedly different from the Chinook over the same period. (3 per 100,000 hours?) Just goes to show that anything with rotors is suspect...