Marty_d

Why did they recover the dead horse?  Did they have pies?

I was born in 1972.

Looking at the 4 Aeroflot crashes, I'd hazard a guess that removing vodka from the cockpit may have helped.

Like the Waterford crystal factory in Ireland (I lived in County Waterford for a while).  

If you do the factory tour they show you people blowing glass, then you go to another room where you stand behind a rope curtain and watch half a dozen skilled workers painstakingly cutting the grooves into the crystal glasses by hand.

Then you kind of think... hold on, how many sets of glasses do they sell each day worldwide?  And we're supposed to believe that 3 glass-blowers and 6 people with Dremels are supplying that...?

Looks like a Lego plane.

6 minutes ago, turboplanner said:

The wire barriers are deflecting B Doubless back on the road and at the same time acting like arrestor cables on aircraft carriers for motor cyclists. There were some wire barrier fatalities earlier due to incorrect installation.

 

If you're talking about the multi-strand steel cable barriers threaded through steel posts, they're more like cheese graters for motorcyclists.

53 minutes ago, spacesailor said:

No easy task with two heavily pregnant woman in the group .

Those 'were' the days my friends. 

spacesailor

Ummm... Why didn't one of them drive? Surely they weren't drinking...

It also said "Rotors:  3 blades each" while in the top pics at least, my Mk.1 eyeball clearly tells me there's 2 blades each.

Bottom one shows 3 blades and a different rego / colour scheme - so they made at least 2.

I reckon if you're pulling the guts out of a van you'd want to put in some steel frames anyway, much as Skippy did.

1 hour ago, Bernie said:

no wings were folded for travel.

I figured that.  Just looked funny on the trailer with wings out.

2 hours ago, Bernie said:

 

You didn't worry about her lifting off when you got to highway speeds Bernie?  😁

That's a lovely colour scheme.

Didn't our current monarch drive one of them off a runway once?

Is True airspeed indicated on any instruments or just calculated / shown on GPS?

(Not that it's going to make much difference in a 701 😆)

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

In Victoria if you haven't been pinched for speeding in the last 12 months and are not far over they will waive it. 

Even for speed cameras?

Used to be, you could be certain of a "buffer" (usually 10%) where they wouldn't pull you over.  So doing 106 in a 100 zone was pretty safe.

I think the rot set in with Victoria first, pulling people over for 1 or 2 km/h over the limit.  Now here in Tassie there's "Over is over" signs all over the highways promising zero tolerance.

le cochon.

Looks like the love child of an AN2 and a Lysander.

I had the same questions Red.

Ended up making my own, worked pretty well.

https://www.recreationalflying.com/forums/topic/28196-marty-ds-ch-701-build-log/?do=findComment&comment=541949&_rid=2988

She did extremely well.

2 hours ago, BrendAn said:

Especially nude lawn bowls. It wreaks havoc on the audience.

"'Ere, what's Mabel wearing, Stan?"

"I can't quite tell, Ed, but it sure needs ironing!"

Very nice. Lot of time and money went into that.

I'm a dad, I reserve the right to tell Dad jokes!

You canard-ly expect that not to be a problem.

10 hours ago, Christin said:

So, generally speaking, don't use etch primer AND black stuff I got out of this. So I'm still not sure what I should do to prevent corrosion apart from using the black stuff. I'll be flying coastal A LOT, the plane will be outside and I won't always have access to fresh water to hose it down straight away. I'm just concerned if bare metal is left inside the plane I'll regret not having done anything in a few years. 

The bloke who did the first inspection of my 701 advised me to get a spray inhibitor - think it was Cor-Ban - and said it misted so well that even giving a few blasts into the wings through the root lightening holes would give a good coating.

Unfortunately I bought the wrong one by mistake - ended up with avionics corrosion inhibitor which doesn't mist well at all.

In any case something like that or ACF-50 which seems to be heavily advertised when you search "Aircraft Anti Corrosion spray" could be an option.

If you're rolling the black stuff neatly then maybe you could tape over it after it's dry and spray the rest of the part with either etch primer or a corrosion inhibitor.

Very rare that 0.016" is riveted to another 0.016". Mostly to 0.025", 0.032" or thicker.