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  • Birthday 21/09/1965

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    Slepcev
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    Storch
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    Australia

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  1. KING

    Junkers F 13

    Actually got up close and personal to a reproduction model in the UK two years ago. Very interesting aircraft and beautifully built.
  2. G1 STOL won in its class at the first big European STOL comp on the beaches in Belgium [Zoute Air Trophy]. Had a good look round it - nicely built all metal with good folding wing system - quite impressive...
  3. I’m sure Amelia Earhart would have attested to the efficacy of a trailing wire for comms when she landed back home in the US if she and Noonan had a serviceable one in her Electra: https://tighar.org/wiki/Removal_of_trailing_antenna
  4. Hi there Kyle, now based SEQLD and just buying a SavVG (I’ve owned a VG and a 701 previously). I’ve noticed that you’ve completed a twin stick mod. That’s a feature I’d have liked in both my previous aircraft so wondered if you’ve got drawings/details that you’d care to share?  Cheers.

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      Kyle Communications

      The ones I have fitted are the factory ones but I dont use electric flaps. ICP say you cant have twin sticks without electric flaps but that is BS. I converted my VGXL and I am finishing rebuilding a wrecked S model now and am fitting a set to it as well. You are welcome to come and see how its done. I am about to paint everything in the next week or two on this one. There is a couple of things to know about but its pretty easy to do. The original factory twin sticks for the VG and classic were very ordinary but the later versions are quite good. All bearings fitted etc

      I fly out of Caboolture and am doing the rebuild at my house at Burpengary East  give me a ring  0408724272

       

  5. Anyone know of a decent Europa trigear for sale? Hoping I can find one in Aus rather than importing one.
  6. Yes maybe this.... everything looked ok until the inverted position for what was obviously going to be a rolling manoeuvre - can’t think of a logical reason why he’d try to pull back on the stick at that point. Loose straps could result in gripping stick backwards. Unfortunately yet another example of level aeros not being a bright idea. Far too many over the years. RIP to this poor fellow. I felt sick for his mate on the video camera...
  7. Just adding a bit here. First off check out the ww2 training films on how to fly the jug - Pretty cool: On a personal note I used to fly from a DDay era airfield called Headcorn in Kent, UK. While driving around I found a small dedication to a group of about a dozen WW2 pilots who died flying from there. They gave their lives flying Jugs with most of them cut down within a few months of DDay on very dangerous ground attack sorties - cutting Axis communication lines and close in ground support for the Allied coastal bridgeheads. I checked out each of the pilots names on the internet and became focused on one guy in particular called George Rarey. He was killed in late June 1944 and never met his unborn son. Before the war he was a budding New York newspaper cartoonist and kept a cartoon diary of his wartime experience [he also painted personalised all the nose art for the pilots in his squadron]. His son published his work online and its a bitter sweet experience to read it: George Rarey's World War II Air Force Cartoon Journals It’s a little off topic but if you’re interested in the P47 there’s some interesting insights here.
  8. Was flying in the UK recently and a big reminder on CO poisoning came with the death of Emilio Sala in a charter crash CO Poisoning is a very real danger - signs of nausea or headaches are prime symptoms and personality I’d be opening vents and getting on the ground - if I suspected it in any aircraft I’d flown in I wouldn’t feel comfortable leaving the pilot in command or owner completely aware of my concerns. Don’t think I’d be reporting anyone but I’d make sure my concerns were very clearly understood.
  9. You’re right with the C172 in the hangar comment. Reminded me of Max Stanley’s quote: The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you :)
  10. I owned a Tipsy Nipper for a while, loved it [best aviation fun:$ ratio I’ve ever had] but nose gear collapse leading to nose over in a forced landing situation was a worry. I mitigated by really tightening Hooker 5 point straps on landing, always wearing a helmet and having a decent egress tool at hand with me. The Tipsy Nipper has a funny nickname of the ‘Nipsy Tipper’ because it has been known to nose over so that threat was in my mind with that type but the steps I took probably a good idea with any low wing/bubble canopy combination.
  11. Here's a couple of women who held their own with the best male pilots of their day; If you want a true hell raising maverick check out the Pancho Barnes' story [read The Happy Bottom Riding Club if you can] - Founder of the US movie pilots union, Barnstormer, an original member of the 99s who broke Amelia's world speed record, and respected as a pilot by people like Bob Hoover, Chuck Yeager and Jimmy Doolittle no less.... Hanna Reitsch - A total Nazi who was with Hitler in the bunker at the end of WW2 - the last pilot to fly out of Berlin. A test pilot who flew one of the first helicopters [indoors btw], and as a very gifted test pilot flew a lot of the Nazi secret projects including the Me163 rocket plane and a piloted version of the V1 pulse jet (recommend 'The Sky Is My Kingdom') Many many more examples but these two gals come to the front of my mind right now.
  12. Thanks for quick reply :) I saw Heck Field and thought it looked ideal but apparently no hangar space at the moment? Looks ideal if it could work. cheers
  13. Any @400m strips within an hours drive of the Gold Coast that aren’t published on the sectionals that would have room for a STOL aircraft? Looking to move up that way in the near future and would appreciate some inside info.
  14. Wow there are a lot of nit pickers out there..... This looks like a pretty good job to me - well done to the pilot.
  15. Hi there Seb, sorry just read your reply. I've got a blue head 582 - How did your lap in your mate's S14 go?
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