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Nope, Tassie.

Good!

 

 

Engine came out of a training Foxbat

Was the Foxbat at Glen Innes?

 

 

memory chips have a limited life you can only read and write to them so many times. in this case it looks like it just needs reflashing

Shouldn't the last version of firmware still be available to re-flash rather than just say D2 is in the market and D3 is soon to be released. The throw away tech mentality is out of control. I will replace my Samsung android phone after the 5G models are released, not before, but several crook firmware upgrades have tried to take it out ahead of schedule. Funny how their first response is always, "It is more than two years old, time you had a new one!".

 

 

Do the chips in modern electronics have a count down timer set to render the hardware useless after a pre-defined life span. Be good for business and dead simple to add into the firmware, and who would ever know.

 

 

Reg has had no plane since he sold her and is no longer the ICP distributor. If I was any sort of neighbour I would get on and finish my S so he could do a few hours before he forgets how to do it!

 

 

Hi Steve (or anyone else?), are there any photos or diagrams of this fin reinforcement mod? I will have a rudder extension on my Savannah and I would like to strengthen this part of the fin.

I didn't reinforce mine, remember if you make anything heavy enough it won't get off the ground. The engineers at ICP don't believe you need them. Reg designed his rudder extension after a conversation we had on the phone one night, about three days later I went over to start building and the parts were on the bench, but he did what seemed necessary, he is not an engineer. The only example is the old maroon Savannah demonstrator and it has a new home down at Dubbo, I don't know of any photos of the angle reinforcements.

 

 

Rick don't forget to prep the alloy with 50/50 Metho and water mix applied with scotchbrite before etch priming.Jeff

Is that the same as Prepsol?

 

 

Often the build takes so long that by completion day the garage is due for demolition anyway.

 

And its out!!!

Dennis was very motivated!

 

 

Great to hear, Nick. If it was a big job getting better a boxed kit up your driveway, how the hell are you gonna get a completed aeroplane out again?

Memories of Dennis's Savannah built in a third floor apartment in Sweden come to mind. Slinging it over the balcony will make this driveway look like a stroll in the park.

 

 

My Uncles used to be one of the major drawcards many years back.

Chad Morgan?

 

 

The photos show it was Danny's homebuilt.

Showing slat brackets but no slats.

 

 

Not wishing to buy into squabbles about ranking Airventure, Ausfly, Holbrook etc, surely I’m not the only wrinkly grey guy to notice a sea of other wrinkly grey guys at these events. It is sad overall that young people either:1) don’t turn up to any of these events in large numbers, or

2) the young are no longer interested in flying and simply don’t partake in aviation.

 

If the latter is the case, that doesn’t bode well for aviation overall.

The young do tend to aspire to fly further than they can while holding the joystick, so a passport is usually a higher priority than a pilots licence. Two of my three kids have been overseas twice already though neither my wife or I have ever held a passport. The world is a lot smaller for them so a plane that has 3 or 4 hours range doesn't get them there.

 

 

Having a minor problem at the moment with having lost some of the drawings and the CAD program I was using when my hard drive died, you guessed it, hadn't backed up for a while

Has the hard disk actually died, or has it just ceased to boot up. If the later install it as a secondary disc in another computer and get into it. I have had success with Ccleaners cousin Recuvva getting back my wifes photos from a disk that scrambled it's file allocation system too.

 

 

Worried when I read the thread title, thought you had done the tricycle version of a ground loop! That could have been a bit hard on your nose leg.

 

 

On the video there was one motorist pulling out to overtake who could have changed the outcome.

 

 

she stopped right at the traffic lights. Very lucky.

My wife saw your post and suggested she wasn't lucky, just obviously competent. You didn't read Tillmanr above.

 

 

Drifter listed in local newspaper supplement.

 

DRIFTER ULTRALIGHT

 

A503 Reg 25-315 380Hrs

 

Dual Control, Wire Braced

 

$6000 Coonabarabran

 

02 6842 1033

 

 

at times a little funny but sometimes a tongue in cheek dry sense of humour can be misinterpreted through a keyboard.

Maybe he needs to use more Emojis!

 

 

Bummer....I wonder what the issue was....maybe thats a project I need to look at in the future. We have the technology

So how is your prototype coming along?

 

 

Loctite needs heat to a bit over 300 degrees C to make the bond release. You can get it there with a heat gun if you don't have a butane torch.

 

 

Yeah well Qantas the pricks just cancelled my 430,000 points. Its theft

On the fifth page of small print you will no doubt read that they were perfectly with in their rights!

 

 

Eightyknots. I hope you have some Devine intervention, or are ageless. If your current building rate of two hours every 3 months continues, your build will take 192.5 years! LOL. Perry.

Don't listen to his harsh words Hank! I have only got about three hours in on mine in the last couple of years, after my brisk start. But we will get there, it isn't a race.

 

 

Oh Marty I didnt make the body...I need to make the ring that goes inside the tank to clamp that body to the tank. Although I am sure I could come up with something similar but its a lot of work to do so....much easier to buy those parts :)

If the ring is built as strong as the cap, how do you get the ring through the hole into the tank? does it have to be made in two pieces?

 

 

I don't see the seat!

 

 

Be aware that a 70 inch prop installed in an Airmaster hub will have a larger diameter than it had in, say, your existing Bolly hub.