ClintonB

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It’s like tweety bird if he was an aeroplane?

I had a short jaunt on Sunday, wind was strong here too. It does test you out, I did this one alone and felt better after the instruction a few weeks earlier.

Worst out of that is if is what happened there is a mass murderer out there in power.

Leonardo summed it up best; “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward. For there you have been, and there you will always long to return.“

if only he had an LSA.

welcome back.

Sometimes it is just an arrival you walk away from, usually resulting in hurt pride if anyone witnesses it.?

Pardon me, but who did the pre-purchase inspection of the aircraft? If a pre-purchase identified all the problems you mention, then the list would have been a great bargaining chip to reduce the asking price. After all, if you've had to spend money to rectify problems, then you don't need to shell out that money in the purchase price.

 

I find it interesting in reading through this thread that many of you have mentioned the involvement of a LAME, but no one has mentioned an L2, 3 or 4 as being involved in the maintenance. Does that mean that the certifying criteria for a RAAus maintenance approval is sub-standard?

Mate of Seller is simple answer. I did try to PM you but would not let me. it had an oops message.

cheers

clinton

I would find it nearly impossible to buy used kit plane assembled by someone else.

 

One wrong bolt, missing rivet or lock wire missing could take your life.

 

Wish I had the patience to build my own!

Mine was the perfect example. 264hrs TT, should be good I thought. We made 15.5hrs home with only minor problems. Training in it had the nose wheel leg mounts crack out. Whilst rectifying this found more and more bushes flogged out, and with all the bolts being cbc 8.8 grade I started replacing them with aircraft bolts in imperial size with new bushes. Also found all pivot bolt points on undercarriage and elevators out of alignment drastically. With lots of time working most have been sorted. Then one day i moved the ailerons and realised there was 1/8” play in the bushes. These are built in to a fibreglass flaperon. I have made bushes and sourced a new torque tube in 4130 as the alloy one is almost cut through from flogging. Still have to disassemble the other side and do yet. All this extra has made it a labour intensive project which has stalled. I know I need to finish and enjoy it just to get my financial input alone. I suppose I should make a list and just do one thing at a time until back together( if I don’t spot anything else).

I know it means spending some money that could be tight, but 1/2 hour to an hour with an instructor might be prudent. I found it reassuring to have one next to me after 6 months since flying. Only once did he hover on the controls, but left me to it. I will feel more confident on my next outing which I will make sooner rather than later.

I think the storeman at Tamworth tafe vechicle refinishing in 2000/01 when I was there was one of the pilots that bought that back. My teacher had told us a bit about it, I think his name was David.

Obviously, if I could work out the aircraft, there's not much left. :-)

 

I was thinking yesterday that we haven't heard from Ian in a little while. Does anyone know where he is? Hope he is OK!

 

Shall we have a rule for now that those that last guess it have post the next aircraft to guess?

 

Here is mine..

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Did this one ever get airborn. It looks rather busy.

A tad more done today. Half a wing.

 

To get the corflute to fold back on itself without splitting, you have to cut the inside of the bend. This means cutting the surface. To do this, you use a pair of hook-blade cutters attached to the sides of a piece of plastic to get the width.

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The next step was to fit span-wise strips of corflute to act as stoppers when the corflute was folded over to form the airfoil shape. The plan calls for a strip of balsa to be glued in as a main spar, but I couldn't be bothered hauling out my balsa supplies, so I used a bamboo garden stake.

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Then I folded the corflute over, and stuck the folded half to the span-wise strips. This created the airfoil shape.

 

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That section looks aerobatic, your’e gonna need a bigger motor now.?

What about the Lazair. The 2 chainsaw motors, cling wrap covering and plastic props.

there is one flying in Tamworth. It’s all up weight is about the equivalent of me.

Got a 1.6hr flight review in today, Beautiful weather after a front through yesterday. Felt good to be in the air again.

will have to go again soon, not to lose the skills again after the long break.

I got scammed by these guys. Money taken on double up offer, no drones, had to get bank to recover through disputes centre. I questioned them through their website, response said no order in your name, please confirm details on card. I answered that email with details, no further response. Checked online and found many claims of fraud and quality not what promised. 4 weeks later money was back, no one disputed transaction from their end. Might be a numbers game. 80% disputes is still 20% profit

Is there such a thing as a ATC sim that could be used to practice radio calls, instead of talking to yourself like an idiot?

I had trouble downloading to a fairly new Samsung S10 5G phone. Kept getting messages stating invalid phone number. I ended up turning off, then on, then updating before it finally just worked.

I have contact with customers still even though sparse, also all day around my son who works there, I don’t believe he could follow directions even if he was a train on a track.

i would like to think it might help if I get the dreaded rona.

all the searching I do online still pops up on every device I use even if not logged in, so somebody is spying anyway.

My son tracked the NZ Warriors Fokker journey this afternoon, when it got close enough we went out to spot it.

we caught a glimpse of it on final for straight in on 30R at Tamworth.

watch our fees go up now the council’s self image grows.

Booked an instructor from a school that is still working for next weekend. Yay! Finally get to fly again.

Apparently, from posts in RCGroups, the good Depron that was used in the past is no longer made. Any Depron now is a much softer product, not very suitable for making aircraft, especially a trainer. I'm going to ask some local real estate agents if they have any old corflute For Sale signs. Bunnings have corflute sheets at $6 for a 900 x 600 sheet, but I'm a tightwad and prefer to go on the scrounge.

 

As for my other lockdown projects, I've finished the office saddle seat for the daughter; washed and detailed the wife's car; laid a brick edge for a garden bed; de-rusted and repacked the bearings in a couple of wheel hub assemblies and am halfway an annual maintenance inspection of the lawn mower. With the lockdown, it will take a month of Sundays to get my collected drink containers cashed in, but I need to do it soon so I can start on my motorcycle trailer.

You get sponsorship also using real estate boards, advertising space is gold, First national, PRD, LJ Hooker, you could send them a bill to cover costs.

The helicopter would be way cooler.

but does it count as irresponsible parenting letting you kids take off alone?

I get “ one at a time please” when I get on scales.

good thing I have 440kg payload I suppose.

Good thing is, that it doesn’t look used or broken. But I would always wonder until I found its home.

too many landing on Quebec freeways could do that to you.

more so do they have a vaccine or chemical destroyer of this sh@tful thing. They were spraying what? every where and are now operating again. I know life is disposable over there but how is this so.