Riley

G`Day guys! I now have a 'GoPro hero 8 black' and I`ve just started learning to use a couple of programs to create and edit videos`.

 

This was some of my flying yesterday afternoon and my first attempt at creating a video and posting it to youtube.

 

Ha! It appears the youtube censors have quite rightly deleted your filthy aviation porn!

I wish to exchange the mechanical guts of 3" cable-driven, vintage RPM instrument with 'impulse-activated' innards salvaged from a modern electronic tacho. A google search tells me, with careful procedures (no instructions) this a relatively straight-forward conversion however I've got 10 thumbs and no cojones so am not game to try it. Can anyone steer me towards a technician/service who might do the deed? The current black plastic tacho with red-painted wide needle just doesn't look the part in the Pietenpol. Tks in anticipation. Riley

A few years back, after the passing of a flyer mate, I was asked by the family if I would do a 'low & over' of his old stomping grounds to achieve his wish of having his ashes spread over the countryside that he grew up in. I'm very happy to take what's left of Pud on one last flight but ...... I've heard from various sources that, unless done correctly, the ashes have a better than average chance of ending up back in the enclosed cockpit (Champ 7BCM tandem) than in the slip stream. Accordingly, I'd welcome any pointers - do's - don't do's from anyone who's been down this track. Standing by w/ thanks.

Watch out for those crusty old pilots. They are more worried abut going west than any other direction. Nev

Hush yor mouf boy!

So... does anyone have information about Tony Hayes sourced components? Particularly his pods? Don

Shortly before Tony's exit I visited with he and Kay at Watts and he put me unto the geezer on Bribie Island who held the moulds and was making pods, carry-thru bar enclosures, doors etc for TSOG. I purchased two sets of T300 cabin enclosures to carry back to WA. (still have my unused set surplus now to requirements) and, buried somewhere, will have the fellow's details. Give me a day or two and I'll dig out the aged gen and, if contactable, he may have info as to the whereabouts of the 'Sprint' moulds. cheers

Having achieved the status of octagenerian with too many aircraft, I recently (somewhat reluctantly) sold my Thruster Gemini to a pair of young (they're not even 30 yet!) Thruster enthusiasts. They already possess every issue of the now defunct TSOG bulletin thus I have a full set of Tony Hayes' informative epistles available at no charge to anyone who might put them to good use. Forwarding costs to the new custodian. Riley

I initially tried to get my Mylar from overseas and got caught up in the need to demonstrate that my aircraft manufacturer (its a kit) officially accepts the fitting of such devices. So I ended up finding an Australian print house that uses Mylar film in its systems. They not supplied but cut it into strips of the requited width(s). I used a 3M double sided tape to affix the Mylar strips.

Thanks SD. I'll ultimately resort to that if I can't get the curved 'real thing' cheers

Thanks for the info Gents. Looks like Mylar is the most suitable. Can anybody point me in the right direction for a supply source in OZ that sells the strips and relevant safety and transfer tape by the meter rather than 33meter rolls? Tks Riley

Gentlemen (and Ladies)

I'm seeking informed response as to what is the most successful and long-lasting, clear gap-seal tape for use on painted fabric aileron and empennage surfaces. Advice on your experience (good/bad) and supply source with a good/best Australian procurable seal stripping would be very much appreciated. Tks in anticipation. Riley.

As you all know by now, I just can`t stay on the ground for too long so this afternoon I just had to do it again! Thought I`d show you all what I look like.

 

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Franco.

Franco, for a man of 47 years, you're a smooth-looking dude. The Hemsworth bros would have serious competition if you lived in Hollywood or they lived in Deeral! Keep it up (the Drifter, dammit)

Fellow had one in a gyro here in the west about 7 or 8 years back but pulled it in favour of a R914 Rotax because of continued dis-satisfaction. I don't know/can't remember what his problems were. If you get to the point of seriously wanting Simonini info, give me a hoy and I'll try to chase him down so you can pick his brains. Riley

Howdy Fellas, anyone have contact details for user RILEY from perth?

Greetings snowydave

On the weekend dug out L/wing components, brushed off dust/birdsh-t, took photos, made notes and now can't find your contact details. Please get back to me w/ phone nr and email address. tks Riley

Riley - So, whose local restored Model A Ford, is now missing its engine?

Nah. Was lucky (…. Nev ??) to get unto a newly built 5 brg converted Corvair and prop in Vic from a fellow who ended up buying a fully rigged experimental before he started building his kit fuselage. Cost me very little more than what it would have to buy, import and build the smashed engine. Time will tell how much luck is involved.

You might have got in earlier. Wolves and large bones and mud are par for that course. What plane is yours in? (if you will still talk to me.) Nev

 

 

 

What else but a Pietenpol Aircamper? (but I'll cut you some slack). I needed a new engine because the original Corvair suffered a catastrophic in-flight self destruction - burned piston face, broken rod, split cylinder barrel and other massive problems in 3 out of the 6 cylinders. Guess the Alsatian must have got to that one first? I got called out to retrieve it from the forced landing site and ultimately bought the carcass from the disgruntled owner a few years later and have just completed the much-longer-than-anticipated repower. Looking now for a decent w/end met forecast to hopefully put the old girl back in the air. If it works well I'll crow like a rooster but if it fails, I'll just hide in the corner and change the subject. cheers

A lot run the Corvair Chev flat six aircooled but it's not especially the answer. They are now very old and been sitting around wreckers yards being pee'd on by alsatians for too long. Nev

 

Hell Nev, I wish you'd told me that before I spent two years and a bunch of coin installing a 5 brg Corvair only to find out now that it's nowt but a canine pisspot! Gonna shoot that damn dog!

Yeah, I first heard about a VW powered plane when I was a kid. The Druin Turbulent. They would have been maybe 40 HP

Automobile power plants in aircraft? In 1929, who would consider home building a 2-place aircraft with a 40hp, water-cooled, 4 cyl, in-line, cast iron block, Ford Model A engine? Bert Pietenpol considered it then went ahead and did it! Many still being built and flying in the free world 90 years on. There are as many airworthy Piets operational with auto conversion engines as there are with small Continentals or Rotax.

These ill-fated warplanes are all classic examples of companies being given too much leeway by way of defence expenditure, without proper oversight of the sales and income potential of the final product.

 

Canada paid out another $500M in 1993, for precisely nothing in return (cancellation fees), on the cancelled Sea King helicopter replacement contract. They really are suckers for losing huge money on ill-thought-out defence disasters.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Sea_King_replacement

The Canucks are not alone in curious defence spending (and in support of my previous nationality) could I point out our rather pricey French submarine agreement?

Bought 4 ea brake cyl seals (buckets) off UK eBay just as the CV19 panic struck us. Items were packed in a Royal Mail Intn'l Priority air mail envelope and despatched the day after order was filled at a postal cost of 4.50 quid. 52 days after despatch the item arrived in my mailbox! Virus influences notwithstanding, I reckon the convict ships would have given the Aust Postal Service a close run for efficiency! And my good wife wonders why I get more cynical as I get older. Sheesh!

There is zero evidence men and woman can work together. As an experiment we have been trying it for the last 50 years and it's not going so great. The worst work places are when you have a high ratio of females. Of course most work places now don't actually produce anything useful so it does not really matter.

 

A 2009 study published in the journal Gender in Management found, for example, that although women believe other women make good managers, “the female workers did not actually want to work for them.” The longer a woman had been in the workforce, the less likely she was to want a female boss.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/the-queen-bee-in-the-corner-office/534213/

 

Zero evidence???? What a statement of useless twaddle! Perhaps you would have us just eliminate females from the work force? You've been self-isolating too long!!! Riley

Does anyone have experience with in-ear passive headphones. What about building a set from scratch?

Waraton, I managed to scrub your PM and don't have the smarts to reply in kind. I'd accept your proposition but, due to regional travel restrictions, can't get near the hangar. Am hoping the authorities will ease off on the relevantly useless ban by next w/end so will get back to you once I can regain access to the airfield. cheers

We have a couple of serious gyro pilots at the airfield who use and swear by the Quiet Technology/Clarity Aloft 'bud-in-ear' headsets. On their recommendations I bought a set for use when flying the biplane but could never feel comfortable with them (must have asymmetric ear holes?) so went back conventional and relegated the set to the locker ever since. Available if anybody is interested.

Similar event took place at a RCAF CF100 fighter sqdn base in Northern Ontario, Canada in 1959. No operational flying was occurring due to Xmas break stand-down but catch-up maintenance was being carried out on a relaxed basis by standby personnel. An electronics tech and an armourer were performing stray voltage checks on a CF100 all-weather fighter in the hangar when check lists got mixed up and one or the other pushed the 'go' button and delivered 29 rockets out of the port wing pod thru the doors and across the double line of aircraft parked outside. Miraculously, the rockets missed the parked aircraft but the noise certainly got we off-duty airmen out of bed in a hurry. The incident never got coverage in the air force 'crash comics' so which of the two technicians (if not both) got tarred and feathered was never revealed. Not a Merry Xmas for some.

I have a damaged 19 category Lightwing (GA55) complete excepting firewall forward that you can have for the taking. With a car/boat trailer, once the interstate travel restrictions are lifted and if fuel stays cheap, it could almost be a low cost answer to your ambitions. Some fuse tubes need replacing, wings are straight, landing gear stuffed. I souveniered it's radial engine some years back but couldn't bear to cut up the eminently-restorable airframe and have been tripping over it ever since. cheers Riley

Apologies, guess I should have mentioned that the aircraft is in Perth.

Hi all,

 

Looking for a chromoly frame: skyfox, gazelle, kitfox, etc. for a project. Please let me know what you have hanging around, be it intact or damaged.

 

Cheers!

I have a damaged 19 category Lightwing (GA55) complete excepting firewall forward that you can have for the taking. With a car/boat trailer, once the interstate travel restrictions are lifted and if fuel stays cheap, it could almost be a low cost answer to your ambitions. Some fuse tubes need replacing, wings are straight, landing gear stuffed. I souveniered it's radial engine some years back but couldn't bear to cut up the eminently-restorable airframe and have been tripping over it ever since. cheers Riley

Many thanks for all the good (and bad) info re: US/OZ surface shipping.  It eventuates that the vendor of the inventory is a Delta Airlines employee and is currently investigating if he can ship under 'heavily-discounted'  employee's rates.  Apparently Delta only fly into Sydney so I'd still be up for road freight to Perth.  I'm sweating on his response with numbers.  cheers    Riley