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Welcome George. We seem to have had a few from Texas lately.

Correct, and as I've proffered a number of times, I expect to see a few deltas or similar mostly wing craft in the near future. They offer the space for batteries and wing loading that a 'normal' plane can not.

A duck walks into a pub and orders a pint of beer and a ham sandwich. The bartender looks at him and says, "Hang on! You're a duck." "I see your eyes are working," replies the duck. "And you can talk!" exclaims the bartender. "I see your ears are working, too," says the duck. "Now if you don't mind, can I have my beer and my sandwich please?" "Certainly, sorry about that" says the bartender as he pours the duck a pint. "It's just we don't get many ducks in this pub. What are you doing around this way?" "I'm working on the building site across the road," explains the duck. "I'm a plasterer." The flabbergasted bartender cannot believe the duck and wants to learn more, but takes the hint when the duck pulls out a newspaper from his bag and proceeds to read it. So, the duck reads his paper, drinks his beer, eats his sandwich, bids the barman good day and leaves. The same thing happens for two weeks. Then one day the circus comes to town. The ringmaster comes into the pub for a pint and the bartender says to him: "You're with the circus, aren't you? Well, I know this duck that could be just brilliant in your circus. He talks, drinks beer, eats sandwiches, reads the newspaper and everything!" "Sounds marvelous," says the ringmaster, handing over his business card. "Get him to give me a call." So the next day when the duck comes into the pub the bartender says, "Hey Mr. Duck, I reckon I can line you up with a top job, paying really good money." "I'm always looking for the next job," says the duck. "Where is it?" "At the circus," says the bartender. "The circus?" repeats the duck. "That's right," replies the bartender. "The circus?" the duck asks again. "With the big TENT?" "Yeah!" the bartender replies. "With all the animals who live in CAGES, and performers who live in CARAVANS?" says the duck. "Of course," the bartender replies. "And the tent has CANVAS sides and a big canvas roof with a hole in the middle?" persists the duck. "That's right!" says the bartender. The duck shakes his head in amazement, and says: "What would they want with a plasterer??"

Always had the shroud, ran fast too. 3 of them were completed. One of them fell apart at high speed at Reno, killed the pilot. You might be thinking of Pushy Galore that was based on a Miller but de-shrouded. Some men think that pushys should be de-shrouded.

I typed that post from the bar, been here 3 weeks now.

Pipistrel use a 150kg pack for 1 hour, and here you are suggesting 1800kgs for 3 hours. Of course the extra battery weight, greater wing loading or wing area, consumes more power exponentially, but I reckon just one Tesla battery pack ain't going to be a long way from 3 hours in the right setup, I would suggest 2.5 hours is solid.

Yes! In a way that the hottest girl (or guy) in a bar says that they have to go, but will meet you tomorrow night there at the same time. So, no.

Yuh, I think they call it Electricity or something.

There is also a page 2, but no link, here it is .. Rohr_2-175_Fan_Jet_page2 You can find the test Pilot, and a member of the Team, view's on a radio control thread here, they come in on page 3 .. 36" span Rohr 2-l75 ducted prop plan now with prototype history explained - RC Groups

Ok, might be private, let me look ... Ok, was Private, I thought it was the Nun, the Midget and the Donkey video, my mistake, try it now ...

If it doesn't have a claimed 2 hour range, it's not worth looking at, unless, like this one, it has a specific point to point short route with dedicated hi amp power supply at each end. Our Tesla came back home last week, no dedicated charger for a few more days yet, and so we have twice charged off a normal 220V power point ..... 2 days and 2 nights (40 hours) to get a full short charge (80% is standard, 400kms range, 100%, 500kms reccomended only if you are going long distance). A Tesla Supercharger takes 1 hour, and a Tesla Wall Charger (that's what most use at home) takes 6 to 8 hours. I'm guessing this guy has similar to a Wall Charger and probably 2 to 3 hours charging for 1 hour's usage, about 40 to 50 minutes safe flying time. Note that he needs 3 Phase for those amps, how many airfields have a power point handy let alone 3 phase? I have the simple answer for 2 hour range, it HAS TO BE a delta or flying wing type, you simply can not get the space and wing loading with practicability with a normal plane. I have been seriously looking at the Rohr, it would do the job perfectly. So many planes, so little time. rohr 2-175 - Google Search If you didn't see it before, this is my other 110hp JAC electric car simulating a full take off for a VTOL (due to a discussion elsewhere about the new flock of man carrying VTOLs), a hard climb in a plane will get a similar result. In 1.30 minutes, I lost about 10% of my range. Good luck in a strong headwind with that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJXgqYE_0VI

I have 3 children, they were always very well behaved and welcomed by all our friends and family because I am aware and considerate of other people, as I was always raised to be so. The alternative was a clip under the ear. Babies are an exception, they usually scream for a reason, often pressure changes on the ears in planes, tummy wind, temp changes, not their fault, no excuses for undisciplined 3 years old and up.

100% agree with you, and on the other hand after traveling a lot you have to face the fact that you're going to be stuck in a room for hours on end with other people who are self centered beyond belief. Just that little bit of mental prep avoids murder .... I've already mentioned before my 2nd last flight, the guy behind me had his around 10 year old son standing in front of him(!) hard up against my seat playing. Closest I've come to hitting someone on a flight, even constantly reminding myself of the consequences. I always take high quality ear plugs and then the movie earphones go over them - you can still hear the movie ok, but it blocks out most peripheral noise.

I would go crazy sitting with noisy, disruptive Chinese for 8 to 10 hours without movies, it keeps them quieter also.

Good looking plane type Jim, welcome. We are predominately Australians by the way, I presume you mean New Mexico (NM), and you are from Michigan (Mi)?

Well it was a fair 'one on one' and nobody won. Well somebody won, but it was nobody, i mean, arrrh, forget it. Glad we can rib people about it as the Pax walked away. It's a good result for Morgan as this avoids it happening in tragic circumstances and clearly shows where he has to re-engineer, and give his engineer a mouthful while he's at it. All this is moot if he actually clipped the wing along the side of the mountain of course.

Well it's been a strange and sometimes sad 4 or so months, now time to get back into the plane proper. I have decided in selfishness to spend a day a week also on getting my sports car up to scratch for production. Difference now is because I have such a lovely process in place with the aluminium, I will be shooting for predominately aluminium bodywork unlike the fiberglass shown here. The Lotus 7 was originally all aluminium bodywork. Mine is vaguely in the form of a Lotus 7, but much bigger, designed for larger American and Australian gentlemen, and the appropriate torsional rigidity for V6 and V8 power units (about 8000lbs per inch). I started last week on a new updated chassis for it .. An original Lotus 7 ..

I believe he's Male. He's not looking for a hat. I guess about 20 posts. Caucasian I believe, getting a bit personal otherwise? My guess is it's for wing main spar strut attachments for pivoting main wing on a Flying Flea. The nut plates are blind, allow a lock nut to be used, and the 2 rivets (whatever) fixing it offer security.

Just make them, get someone to tack some nuts over a hole in some plate, then cut the plate to shape and drill the locating holes to requirement. You only need 2.

hey Frogman, looking forward to some ribitting posts from you.

Fair 'nuff, all but one, old RV3 mostly built scratch from plans by the owners, unlike todays kits. None of that sways my opinion on the proven safe number of hours of normal flight flown in RVs. Considering how many average people with no 'Man Shed' experience at all building them, I would say their record is exceptional. I think if you get into aerobatics, you take your chances.

The amount of Vans flying with similar wing construction, i.e. near 10,000 of them, makes this an anomaly. Never heard of a Vans primary structural failure before. Either a major mistake while building it, a serious flaw in a material or some sudden extreme G load.

Sadly a similar loss of families, a family of 5, Mum, Dad, 3 sons, and a family of 4. Mum, Dad, Son and Daughter.