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5 hours ago, BrendAn said:

It's fake. Like others have said. The still picture is the real part.

🤷‍♂️

Whatever gets you through the night. I also don't debate moon landing deniers. Nothing to be gained from it...

2 hours ago, BrendAn said:

have a look at tghe 2 golf balls. they are huge. 1 is black the other yellow.

Having watched the video interview of the pilot, it's case closed. You may as well be telling me theres no stars in the background of moon lander footage.

Here is the pilot talking through the incident, including reviewing what he did in that video. I'm out and about so can't really listen in. One of you can tell me if he says the video is fake

22 hours ago, onetrack said:

The outlanding is genuine, it's just that someone has manufactured a fake video of it happening, when in fact it's highly unlikely that anyone would be able to video the precise moments it all happened.

Add in the fact that the photo of where the aircraft stopped, is a whole lot different point to where the video shows it stopped.

Interesting that the pilot hasn't said anything about it 🤷‍♂️

26 minutes ago, dlegg said:

Yep I agree, news reports (reputable) only show aircraft parked. Sure looks AI video of plane coming in.

Dunno man. Not saying Juan Brown is an expert on ai, but you'd think someone would pipe up about it if it was fake. There would be a lot of knowledgeable people following Juan. Note too that the pilot and his grandfather (who owns the plane) both comment here. Again, if they are real and the video was fake, you'd think one of them would say something. Or if both those profiles are fake, someone would call bs 🤷‍♂️

6 hours ago, facthunter said:

Pretty untidy Landing but they got away with it.   Nev

Mate, they ended up going over sand traps etc. It would be nice if they could make one of the fairways. Next time theyll be sure to plan their route to follow the length of the fairways in case they have an engine failure at low altitude 🤷‍♂️

News story because the first clip makes you wonder if it was ai! 

Well done. It almost looks like he deliberately parked it right at the end 😄

58 minutes ago, sfGnome said:

Or possibly he saw them, but the “I’ve got to get this rented plane back, so I can’t risk getting stuck by stopping” thought process took over. Another form of get-there-itis.

He may not have to worry about that anymore.

At 13,000 ft I'm wondering if there's a mandated amount of time you are allowed to fly in a regular aircraft, without oxygen. Maybe some hypoxia setting in? I would imagine you'd normally train to look for skiers etc in the path of your anticipated take off path. And that this guy just didn't see anything until the very last second.

What are we talking about...

Yes, saw this recently. What may be the biggest game changer may be the sodium ion battery production. These don't burn, and don't need excessive amounts of controversial minerals. 

Dafuq 😯

Looks like someone is going to be an ex pilot. Much better than there being ex people though

On 06/04/2025 at 10:44 PM, pmccarthy said:

I just spent a couple of hours in the Flight section of the Science Museum on South Kensington. I love the place, it has the best collection of aero engines anywhere, more than fifty I guess. Not many aircraft, but a Spit, a Hurricane and the Alcock and Brown Vimy. My first visit for at least fifteen years. 
 

They had a series of displays about important people in aviation, in about twenty panels spread around the gallery. I expected I would know most of them but I didn’t know any. The people displayed were, in no particular order, the first Indian fighter pilot, the first black British pilot, the first disabled British pilot (missing an eye and an arm), a couple of first female pilots, the first gay RAF pilot to come out, and so on. I am still thinking about what it means, and what it will mean to the mainly young visitors who want to learn about the history of British aviation.

It could be worse. They might instead remove all mention of any of them, and go on to redact any mention of Enola Gay, because gay is 'woke' 🙄

Agreed. Boonah has plenty of fields around it, but results may vary with emergency landings 😄 

As long as you are within gliding distance you can easily keep out of any traffics way. After a few basic tests, which we have done it would be very safe to fly say five to ten miles away. All academic at the moment, all these public holidays have their downside as I can't get my guy to fly for a while. 

3 hours ago, Blueadventures said:

What number of hours did they what you to get to?  Another 5 or more?  Maybe someone at Clifton might have time to fly the hours off for you; maybe even relocate there for a period.   The nice flying weather is starting now so the air will be best.

The aircraft has to be test flown around the airfield it's based at. 

Im mostly bummed about the fact I probably won't get to test fly my own aircraft on my own and I'll have to wait for the remaining 23 hours. 

4 hours ago, facthunter said:

You shouldn't have much trouble finding a competent pilot to fly the remainder of the 25 Hour s of. It's a shake down, best done somewhere where  a problem is  easy to cope with.  Nev

This in fact is my next step if all else fails. I haven't asked yet but there's a guy who lives nearby who might be able to help. He's built a few aircraft and finished incomplete projects so would be easy to get him on the test schedule. 

I forgot to mention that we applied with both our names. But Ra Aus knocked me back due to my lack of recent flying hours. Which I guess is fair enough .Otherwise I wouldn't even consider selling it until I finished off the test flying.

*THINKING OUT LOUD EDITION*

As per heading, my plane only has about 3 hours of test flying on it. I'm not on the test flight schedule unfortunately. My guy at the airfield is on the paperwork. I haven't talked to him yet, but I do know he's not interested in doing all 25 hours himself.

Has anyone been in a situation like this? What are the pros and cons? I'm guessing a big con would sale price. 

11 hours ago, onetrack said:

I presume you mean "Nickel". Yes, Nickel ore comes in the sulphide form, and processing it releases a lot of sulfuric compounds, which are highly acid. Thus you can get acid waste and aquifers becoming acidified if proper processing/handling care isn't taken. Even the raw ore is quite corrosive.

 

But sulphur is a useful product used in industrial processes, so the sulphur should be extracted and used. The problems start with inadequate environmental controls or controls/regulation that becomes corrupted via bribery, or other forms of corruption - which is possibly all too common in places such as China.

While I'm sure there must be some corruption in China, the perpetrators have to really be in the know, as they have the death penalty for such things there.

But other Asian countries...

2 hours ago, spacesailor said:

Yes but looking at my posted specs It is a two-stroke. 

And yes .

my bro & I made a " compound-steam engine " out of ' high-pressure hydrolic piping. 

It worked fine under ' compressed air .

but the powers to be,  said we would need a " boilermakers " certificate to operate our ' home made ' flash water tube ' boiler. End of a dream .

 spacesailor

So get a boilermaker.

6 hours ago, facthunter said:

No IT has to be dry and get rid of condensed moisture inside the Magneto by Absorbtion and evaporation. Nev

What is this a reply to?

On 04/04/2025 at 7:38 AM, facthunter said:

You don't have to heat it to turn it into a gas. Nitrogen is used to remove condensation Aircraft magnetos in the Tropics. Nev

I think the idea is you want it to be quite high pressure, and lots of it, so heat is in the mix there. Possibly running through a 'radiator', which in this case is absorbing heat from the air.

3 hours ago, facthunter said:

 Ammonia is a safe source of Hydrogen. NH4 I still cannot understand what a Nitrogen engine is?  Nev

You've compelled me to look it up. Seems it's a variation on a compressed air motor, but using liquid nitrogen that is heated to become pressurised gas 

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

As far as I can tell, this is the only car to have used a liquid nitrogen engine