Kiwi303

Ekranoplan. Needs a jet where the ducted fan is for sufficient power tho.

Thermobarics can make a decent mushroom. Not something the US has done much development into, they seem to have preferred FAEs.

It looks to me the fuel filter is inserted into some clear pipe and the pipe is in turn slipped over the end of the pitot. I would guess it simply allows the air inside the tube and piping to remain the same as ambient air even during temp changes. Notice the ribbon?

You need ADS-B out. Most rec sets are only ADS-B in.

He's in the air right now as I post this. Made a long flight bypassing Russia and heading straight from Attu with a night takeoff in the dark to arrive in Japan in the evening. At the moment Spidertracks is showing him in the air following the west coast of japan having passed between Sado Island and Niigata. It's been interesting following this trip.

You mentioned a heavier engine further up the thread, how did the W&B work out?

Try Maori... Wh is prounouced as F.

M - O - N - E - Y And stupidity. Everyone believes it will happen to "someone else" never Them.

pretty bloody tail heavy. it looks like the rear wheel just ran along the ground until it came down on it's back.

What a waste of a nice hole in the ground!

Yeah, but look at the wonderful artificial SCUBA dive site they are constructing! How long before they point a river in and fill 'er up?

I don't know much about the site, I do know that it is based on ADS-B data, if you look at the "help us" pages, they show how you can hook up a ground based ADS-B-in system to your internet to send the data captured to their site. So what shows on the site would depend on what the ADS-B-out on the plane is sending. The plane rego and aircraft data would be what is entered in the transmitter I think? Most of the private planes I saw on the site over NZ here tracked in the NZ CAA registry as school and/or club planes, I suppose that private owners haven't stumped up for ADS-B-out units yet, but schools have for liability reasons, especially ones in busy airspaces.

It's Udderly safe. The rear guy in the reverse sloped diamond pattern touches down first, so doesn't run up the leader of the herds arse. They have that extra few seconds friction/braking time during which the fellas ahead mooove on a bit.

I've been tracking CSN305, China Southern Airlines Airbus A330, out of Guangzhou en route to Auckland, earlier I was watching CSN386 from Tokyo Narita to Guangzhou. Just staring at one plane icon on the screen palls quickly, even when bringing a pretty Russian woman ever closer to me :P So I went browsing around to see what else was around on doing laps. ZK-DMW from the North Shore Aero Club seems to be doing cross-country training. Over by Melbourne, VH-ITK has done a bunch of looping circuts of some place near Morrabin, and a long cross country hop, VH-OIS must be training, no cross country, just round and round again through the circuit. 24-7979 is having fun buzzing over to Rythdale and back, and is currently headed to Seaford on the coast... Over to the west, VH-WHQ has given up curcuits and has struck off to the SES, long straight tracj like he/she has a destination in mind rather than a scenic meander like VH-NRA further west over some place called Lethbridge. Interesting spying on others off for their flights... It's a reasonable day for flying here looking outside, and once Ms FromRussiaWithLove flies home in a couple of weeks I'll be selling the car I picked up cheap for her to use while here so not to be nailed down by bus schedules while I work, and taking the money down to the Rangitata island aerodrome to join the Geraldine Flying Group and my first training flights there.

I have friends (online, haven't actually met and kissed those pretty girls) from Alchevs'k, a town only a few miles outside Luhans'k, one of the capitals of the two breakaway rebel areas. Of those friends, one left the war zone for Moscow, the others have left the war zone for Kharkiv, Dnepropovsk, and other points west/northwest. A pretty good reflection of the Ukraine/Russian split ratio within East Ukraine and the Donbass. I trust them and their local news and firsthand views far more than I ever would trust the mainstream media.

There is a difference between a true majority and a pre-stuffed ballot box.

A Significant fraction of the Crimea are EXTREMEMLY anti-russian. the Crimean Tartars. Treated by the USSR like cattle and diplaced out of their homeland to make room for russian settlers. The Tartars would not have voted for joining Russia, That would be like asking the Palestinians to vote to dissolve Palestine and become Isrelis, and yet Russia reported a 96% vote to join Russia? Then there is the population of Ukrainian speaking ethnic Ukrainians, do you think they would ALL vote to join russia? The referendum was rigged to a fare-thee-well.

Looks like some one recycled the front end of a tail wrecked Hughes.

They are pretty far out there.... Remember their "Sea Kitten" attempt to make "fish" sound too cute to eat?

Is a Fan Jet a Ducted Fan or a Shrouded Propeller? http://www.fraseraerotechnologycompany.com/Rohr_2-175_Fan_Jet.html

So THAT'S how he is planning to make the jump. 30 gallons in the passenger seat and run it up to a deserted island and leave it there while returning to Adak to wait for clearances to come through. Come flying day when he leaves for Russia, land there, top up his tanks, and he has the legs to make it.

I have Ukrainian friends on VK.com, the Russian language facebook clone. One lived just a block from Donetsk town hall in the early days of the fighting. It's not as simple as ousting a democratically elected government. Billions of dollars of public funds went missing into the private pockets of govt placeholders and other issues arose before the Maidan protests started. Also while the Pro-russian president and co were elected, it was on a platform of moderation, promising that despite his pro Russian view, he would recognise the mainly pro-euro general Ukrainian feelings and steer a neutral path. Instead he steered the country sharply towards Russia. The vast majority of Ukrainians are Pro Euro, the Pro Russia groups in the east are mainly Ethnic Russian themselves rather than ethnic Ukrainians, many resettled from Russia in the USSR days and renationalised as Ukrainians in 1991 due to their address, but russians in all else but name. The 1991 and onwards generation are pretty universially pro euro. Even in the russianised east, having grown up without the USSR history.

Close enough for Govt work, they're both big Effing rockets.

Lets see what rates here get spent on that I never use... Dog walking park, No dog. Cycle paths and youth skateboard park, Don't bike (not enough cylinders or noise) and don't skateboard. Rugby clubrooms and field maintenance, Don't play rugger except a ball around the lawn with mates. etc. etc. I'f I'm paying for a lycra clad loon to buzz around on a pushbike, she (no real man wears lycra, except weightlifters who can pound me to a smear if I dis them) on public funded land, said lycra loon can bloody well pony up a bit of rates dosh to support the local public airfield.