rankamateur

as one of the advantages of the Savanna over the 701 is that the middle part of the wing also provides lift?

One of the disadvantages of the 701 is that just where you need the headroom is right where the roof line dips down to meet your headset.

 

 

Yep I have a Surface Pro and a Windows 950XL phone...!

Good for you. I personally am no more interested in being Bill's bitch than I am in being Apple's bitch. Have you tried an Android?

 

I am also interested if you still enjoy your Beta VCR?

 

 

will be things for two bikes, unless I find an even smaller one.

JG3(member on here) puts a folding bike in a turtle deck on the exterior of the rear fuselage, that would work better on the square fuselage of the XL rather than the rounded S model fuselage but it is doable.

 

 

In Switzerland we are not allowed to land anywhere else than on airports or airstrips.

Don't engines fail in Switzerland?

 

 

I will stick up for Frank here.

An alternative would be nice Keith.

 

 

I share your frustration but it hasn't changed for the better any time in the last ten years. The non-update update is typical of people trying to justify their existence, when you work with them they always try to look busy.

 

 

A Savannah does not crash with an extra fuel tank in one wing and not the other so I am not convinced that a few grams difference between one wing tip and the other will be terminal either.

 

 

Not going to share the aggregated data with their lapsed members from whom they hope to collect part of their data!

 

Still happy being part of this group.

 

 

One style (heavier) has old style White Gel Coat finish and is much easier for new builders to achieve a satisfactory painted finish, The other(mush lighter) is opaque finish which is not smooth on finished surface requiring much more filling and sanding to prepare for paint. Since some people install one fuel tank in one wing and two tanks in the other, I am not sure that the difference in the weight would be of great concern.

 

 

What are your cowlings are made of? And has somebody have weighed his cowling???

July 2013 kit has the heavy white cowling, Aluminium wing tips and white heavy white molding for front third of tip. Soon after this they went to the clear light weight unfinished looking cowling and full wing tip of same material.

 

 

I did think this and the wing leading edge are two places that would be three times easier with two people until you get it pinned down in shape.

 

 

wouldnt you start from the middle of those curved sections and work your way out? I would have it all clecoed first and do one cleco and rivet at a time...but any advice would be appreciated as we will soon be doing this

I found I couldn't get the middle to curve around the corner because it fought me on both sides. I think I got into trouble starting on the big end working to the rear, but I can't clearly remember. It is quite a while ago now...isn't it?

 

 

It's interesting, too, that for some parts there are good and 'bad' sequences of clekoing and fastening:!

Especially true for the corners of the rear fuselage joining the side sheets to the upper and lower sheets. I you are doing it wrong it will build a tension and carry it along until it builds beyond what the material can take and it will try to pop a nice fish scale dent in the curved corner section. From distant memory I can't recall which end to tell you to start but if you choose the wrong end you will experience exactly what I have described. Stay alert and you can see the tension building before any harm is done.

 

 

Thanks for that, Steve, I can see the sense of what you are saying.I'm not spending much time in the workshop at present, but will hopefully get some time this week. Like most of the 'tricky' bits on the build, I'm sure it will resolve with a bit of thought.

So far I have found that a good nights sleep often brings insight into something I just can't resolve while I am awake. Everything is clearer in to cool morning light.

 

 

I found that the bolts around the cabin wall being in thinner material had to be installed first then lever the holes in the main spring channel to align the holes in the stay mounts. Being heavier material it was able to take the heavier alignment. It seams that this stretches the cabin walls outwards giving the tension to the whole assembly. If you bolt the mounts onto the channel first there is way too much distance to cover with AN3-05 bolts.

 

 

I found them at those and other locations except they wont sell just one fitting, they sell the entire pack...anywhere from $24 to $40. I just need one $4 fitting and I'm amazed Aircraft Spruce did not carry that size.

Sounds like you are about to become a distributor!

 

 

I will be interested to see what you come up with too.

 

 

I wonder who had custody of the Family Braincell that day?

Really big assumption that there is one.

 

 

.... and rerivet with spacers betwen rib and skin.

I am not sure about all the packing people put in, some use aluminium, others use epoxy fillers. The computers at ICP design the structure of the assemblies and the tensions on the sheets are part of the design, including the distortion of the sheets caused by the tension. All the fill and packing adds weight and changes the design. The ribs under the wing nose skins for instance are not designed to be smooth, nor the sheets on the ribs of the flaps and ailerons.

 

 

Do you get any wood fibres out of your gascolator with the wooden dipsticks?

 

 

There was a lot of mis reporting in the media concerning storm surge height. There were wave height buoys recording 8m and 10m wave heights which the media jumped on and reported as surge heights yet to arrive.

 

 

Raising the flaps promptly on landing can be good in some STOL or windy situations.

This can be a trap too! On about my second or third solo training, I put away both stages of flap in one motion and promptly began sinking. I quite simply hadn't built enough airspeed to fly clean and just began sinking instead. Manual flap allowed we to quickly reverse my mistake but it was a good lesson.

 

 

Funny... this website changes the "Oh s h i t" into Oh *** ....

It probably thought you meant "Oh F c u K"

 

 

Hhah its all I need it would be cheaper if ran on coal too ;)

Remember the 20kg load limit in the coal bin!

 

 

The last rivet before the trailing edge in each rib is a problem fouling on the tail of the one coming from the opposite surface. The first gives no trouble, the second give great grief. With slight pressure on the rivet gun, the tail can be offset and straighten the gun as it fires. The standard rivet is really too long for this situation but a good result is achievable with some practice (read drill out the rejects).