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    A fair point. But people are going to want to see thousands of hours running first. UL Power engines have this problem right now. Not many people want to be the guinea pigs. Mind you, the ZD has a huge advantage of other contenders in that it is a drop in for anything ROtax powered. I know on my plane it would be a pain in the arse to fit anything other than a Rotax compatible...
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    From that video posted earlier, didn't they say it was about 1/3rd the price? Or am I misremembering? if it was say 2/3rd the price or more I'd rather get a Rotax. But at a third, and keeping an eye out for our Canuckistani pal as he tests his, it would be tempting. For homebuilt, I'm still swinging towards an 'on condition' donk. Which is what I went with. kgwilson, in that video, the US warranty is 3 years and I think 500 hours. If i warranty they just swap the motor and send the broken one back to the factory for evaluation. Which is sensible.
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    I think he's referring to solid cans.
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    Oh yes. Expansion! Thanks for the tip. Another plus for collapsible. Mine is high wing so I'll probably stick with solid. That's already an adventure when pouring 😄. Which reminds me I should find a tiny stool or something to stand on when away.
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    Yeah, I'm wondering if when I looked at the weights I saw the weight for a FOOD grade can, which I note is only 900 grams.
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    For sure. My post was only about fuel cans. Although after I posted I couldn't find where I got the weights from when I made my decision to use solid cans 😄 If pouring, I imagine solid will be easier.
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    Actually now I can't find where I got the weights for the cans from 😄 A normal plastic 20 litre jerry can weighs 1.6-1.8 kg. Can someone weigh a collapsible 20 litre fuel can? Maybe they actually weigh LESS! I have been known to be wrong every now and then 😄
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    I'll just add that if you have the room, old fashioned plastic jerry cans are a LOT lighter than the collapsible ones. And a lot cheaper too. I loved the idea of them and looked into it and decided I had plenty of room in my plane. There are two weight and balance luggage spaces in my plane, two empty plastic jerry cans fit in the rearwards one no worries. I imagine a solid can would be easier to lug around than a collapsible one too.
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    It's really strange that they made that intro look like something from a Call of Duty game, they even made the actors look like CGI. Here's a sequence from in the show. I haven't seen it. The trailers sold me on it. If all I had seen was the opening title sequence, I wouldn't have even rated it.
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    Dafuq? Are they from an alternate reality?
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    I saw the remake. It wasn't TOTALLY awful. They did at least find a similar type of plane and got it to flying condition. But agree, not a patch on the original. Blue Max is on my movies to see list. Yes, isn't that museum fantastic. I didn't even know it was there. Went for the Omaka airshow.
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    Remember that it's an ultralight. With full fuel maybe it can carry two hundred kilos of people. If you have no people to fly it, you have to fill it full of stuff to make it fly. Have a look at the system in this Cessna. It does not look light. Assuming you still have 100kg to play with, that would be in the ballpark of people saying it looked like a 50kg plastics explosion. Hard to know how the environment around the explosion affects our view of it. For instance if the plane went through a wall, concrete roofs may have suppressed the fireball. You can bet the Ukrainians (who know what they loaded the plane up with) are very carefully analysing every shred of info they can get. Even in that footage they can count all the smashed windows (sadly I believe the drone didn't hit the factory but the dormitories next to it) and get an estimate of the force. That's just the footage we see right now. They'll be trawling through eyewitness accounts, all footage available etc. even looking at the mushroom cloud is going to tell them something. https://www.airandspaceforces.com/cessna-turned-drone-foreshadows-future-unmanned-opportunities/
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    Can't blame studios for using CGI etc. It's often cheaper, and obviously MUCH safer. But I agree, there's something special about seeing it done for real, whether it's the car chase scenes in films like The French Connection, or Christian Bale actually losing nearly 30kg for his role in The Machinist or of course this movie.
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    One of my favourite movies of all time 😊 I bought the DVD a while ago and it turned out to be NTSC, so thanks for the heads up. Will watch this via Chromecast on my ol Samsung tellie 🙂
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    Early days. Who can say what happened. Right now think of it as a Doolittle raid.
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    Something like 1200km from the Ukrainian border.
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    Jesus, this stupid 15 minute no edit thing on this site... Obviously should say WAGE ðŸĪŠ
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    Jokes aside, you may have seen that the Ukrainians converted an Aeroprakt Foxbat into a giant suicide drone and attacked a drone (😂) factory deep into Russian territory. Bombardier have said not too long ago they don't want their Rotax engines in military aircraft. The ZD would be a brilliant alternative if they are going to make more drones out of Foxbats. And cheaper too. If it's going to be blown up anyway, why pay more than you have to?
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    I quite often don't have the time to look at long videos, but I watched the whole thing. Really nice to see those sorts of videos. I enjoyed every minute 🙂
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    Apparently the average age of men in the US was $3600 in 1956. Seems a new c172 is about $400000, and the average US wage is about 64000. So definitely more expensive now by roughly a factor of two. I suppose it's not surprising for us since one of the attractions of ultralights etc is a lower entry price.
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    Maybe they've adopted the automotive (or Boeing 😄) model- send it out with design faults, and then endlessly keep paying to modify/fix the problems 😂
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    Simple, it costs them $1230000 to make.
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    Well, if he is trained by them it sort of is. You have to keep up with the times. Young people becoming engineers have grown up with smart phones etc. so that has to be part of the training. Train them to make the first step to switch off your phone and put it in your locker. Or whatever the problem is- why isn't he following the protocols? What is it in the training that isn't sticking? Are they lowering standards for recruiting? And etc.
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    I'm normally wary of saying what's happening to so and so, they are turning to shit. It's the logical fallacy of selected instance. But what's happening to Boeing? They're turning to shit 😄 Probably what I can more accurately say is- what's happening to maintenance standards, they're turning to shit.
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