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  1. rankamateur
    Most of the people who would criticise you for your lack of planning for a four year drought would do exactly that.
  2. rankamateur
    Put your black tail skid on or if it tips up when you crawl inside it will bend your rudder. Seen it happen on a maroon one, very nasty on a brand new plane.
  3. rankamateur
    RAA is very specific about minimum visibility, we don't fly if it is limited, do we?
  4. rankamateur
    What about articles held in reserve?
  5. rankamateur
    Gee that sound dangerous! Take care hey.
  6. rankamateur
    But he would have had some fun with it before he became a board member!
  7. rankamateur
    Putting the plates on the inside is a bit the same because the skins on the front fuselage then have to stretch over them where they weren't designed for. Next time they design a plane they do it the right way in the first place now that the VNE is 124kts. Good for you!
  8. rankamateur
    Because it is really made to fit on the inside and they a bit of a bitch to put on outside where they don't look like they are inside out.
  9. rankamateur
    Click on his avatar and it is right there beside the follow button, but don't press the wrong one with your fat fingers!
  10. rankamateur
    Thinking again, it might just be a supply and demand problem!
  11. rankamateur
    I never did ask him, and I can't ask him now!
  12. rankamateur
    Try these bad boys when you are ventilating. http://www.ascentonline.com.au/products/ventilation-insulation/hurricane-industrial-turbine-ventilator-100-900mm/
  13. rankamateur
    Bex is close to the source...
  14. rankamateur
    We lost Wayne Fisher in very similar circumstances to what took Ross. Equally many unanswered questions and I don't remember seeing a report that answered any of them.
  15. rankamateur
    No go these blokes. I built mine in Mum's lounge room as I have said before. Mine are the same as yours Mark. The expensive ones I referred to have a square profile head and were $473 each for the 450mm size I used three of. Mine were coming of the roof flanges and bouncing around the paddock. Latest one came apart where the black plastic frame bolts to the swivel base. I don't remember other (300mm) ones I have use in the past having plastic frames. They have panel beaten successfully so far but a couple have needed to be stripped down and straighten the aluminium axle up the middle depending how they landed. Old angle of arrival argument again, they land better when the wind is stronger.
  16. rankamateur
    Inflation is a bitch. 72 virgins already down to 20, what is the world coming to.
  17. rankamateur
    Factory built planes are often built to a standard, Not to a higher standard!
  18. rankamateur
    You were saying?
  19. rankamateur
    Lyndon your photos show the overlapping wholes but I can't be sure what you are working on. The firewall/windscreen is quite different on the VG to the XL/S. I drilled a few holes as I went along but really not that many, so if the holes are missing triple check before drilling. The engine frame holes do have to be drilled but not until the cabin frame is in place and the lower holes are bolted up to the two heavy extrusions under the front fuselage to locate it on the firewall.
  20. rankamateur
    The photo is too close for me to really see where you are working on.
  21. rankamateur
    Yours is a different model Dennis! Tread carefully making new holes.
  22. rankamateur
    Along with sleeping bags, that would be the next most likely thing to find in the luggage extension on a Savannah.
  23. rankamateur
    Farm sheds just have to be under 200 sq m up here, or you need a development application. Check that with your council because our council has just started an amnesty to sort out a rash of unapproved developments. My hangar was built 16m x 12.5 outside the frame, but the measure is the internal so they apparently measure the inside of the post frames so it comes back to 16m x 12m, 192 sq m.
  24. rankamateur
    This week has left me with many more questions than answers. Reading through this thread and the division of opinion expressed I have one more question. Was Ross the often controversial Professor Avius of the Sport Pilot magazine articles?
  25. rankamateur
    You don't need 4m to fit a Savannah, but it makes a more useful shed of it. Mine has two tractors, a round hay baler and a spray rig in it as well, so make it a useful height. Mine is 4.5m eave height and 3.9m through the side roller door and about 4.3m at the sliding doors on the gable. One or more whirly birds have blown off it three times now (buy the dear ones!), but the shed hasn't looked like blowing away. It is positioned with a solid sheeted wall towards the prevailing south westerly of the nasty storms, I think that is important.
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