AussieB1rd

Fly in to Gayndah Saturday 11th June 2016 to be on ground by 10am.

And don't forget chaps, Breakfast at Historic Angelfield with Burnett Flyers, on the way to Gayndah from early till 10am.

 

Breakfast is $15 coffee, tea, sausages/bacon/fried eggs/scrambled eggs/mushrooms/onions/baked beans/fresh out of oven muffins/toast all cooked piping hot and in bain-marie ready for when you arrive.

 

Cya there.

 

RAA AFFILIATED FLYING CLUB IN THE BURNETT

 

 

 

Nice one Doug, great project and all those hours pushing it up and down the street making vroom vroom noises will have you down to 80 real quick, guess Deskpilot is out the window now and change to ThrusterBuster maybe,

 

enjoy your journey mate and have fun.

 

 

Hmmm...clearly Awstrilian gas can setup on the front...and bush in the background.........

Think you just gave yourself away as a ditch swimmer besides the flag, as any true blood Aussie will know you always loose the cup cap lids off your esky drink cooler and dat bush be

 

Russell lupines alongside a road in Canterbury, New Zealand. lol

 

 

 

Great drawing AB... now can you sketch a Kiwi in behind it?

Sorry, no lead in my pencil atm but I can supply a photo of the model who is off on a hot date.

 

 

 

Put the China on the table

Zactly, and any Freudian slips are sex related and usually followed by Oops Sorry.

 

 

Harking back to the Flying Flea wing arrangement, while watching other Youtube videos, this one popped up.

Sadly I have to fess up owning a copy of this video and more.

 

 

Thanks to the intense low hanging over Queensland and NSW this weekend I got to read this riviting and exciting tale from days yonder, Jack Flyer should be flying off the shelves faster than Biggles can count combs.

 

What an awesome yarn, thanks Tim, maybe the ebook version could be called "The Diary of Jack Eflyer", being of probably similar age, I quite relate to this story but in cars and motorbikes instead of planes, although it was a area I always wanted to enter, growing up in those times and more so if from the country it was a totally different era, a time when rules were something you only found in the Army or Police Force, and grammar slept with granpop and a visual is not warrented.

 

It's painful having to wait all those years for the statuette of limitations runs out and you can fess up to the occasional choof, and other things mentioned that could have landed other not so brave lads behind bars, lol those poor people of Swanhill who missed their chance to bag a couple of felons, maybe the reason for all the tall fences around airports these days.

 

Anyway, great read, kept me glued and begging for more, thank god it was an older thread and I didnt have to go thru all the finger drumming foot stomping waiting for the next chapter release, thanks to all for all the other occasional short inputs and keeping the thread on track, some of these threads make it really worth while joining a forum like this, thanks one and all for all the info contained in the forums many threads, I will never catch up but may cotton on, lol

 

And Tim if any copies left that may have been personally signed by the author, put me down for one.

 

Cheers

 

AussieB1rd

 

 

I'd class it as a lifting body.

This is a lifting body

 

 

This is a sheep

 

 

 

I did a seaman's diary which included a shipwreck in 1850, in two versions.

Sue you must be the oldest member on the forum, so I fully understand the greying on the snout. lol pmsl

 

 

I though pyramid selling was illegal in Egypt.

Good thing this isn't Egypt, besides it's not a pyramid, it's a kitplane that may or may not resemble a pyramid, but once off the ground it's a quad sided delta wing flying machine

 

 

what is the performance specs on those??

A picture says a thousand words.

 

Then there is the imported from china version in kit form.

 

 

 

(It's the only aircraft building I've been doing lately!!)

Boats, Box Kites, think it's the only aircraft building going on in this thread. Love the ornithopters, great gifts for grandkids (hint hint, grow up to be a pilot )

 

 

Weight Festival", its orbit should be promoted.

I will promote any Weight Festival that makes it into Orbit, and hope Rebel Wilson is cast as lead lady. She is as funny as some of these posts.

 

 

Yes mate, recent pic as restoring currently.

Well Flyerme it is looking fantastic and I do like that black sheen, have often thought of doing black but have been put off as others have said it degrades faster than other colours, another factor to take into consideration is should you have an outlanding, ( my term for safely getting back to earth in any place other from where you left. ) is spotability from the air, I have chose a Neon Orange maybe white a white trim, the orange looks awesome on the wheels.

 

Have been looking into the wing design of the Jackaroo but no luck yet on sketch's or plans as I wanna investigate the possible double skinning my wings, can you assist here maybe, yes I know that will make it non original but I haven't committed to anything yet.

 

 

What's the go with the two Chinooks in the background?

Two, you have better eyes than me, there is one on the trailer and do you think that is a chinook in front of the container, I know that the fuse was up for sale, in fact it was offered to me for free once, there is a set of wings from it hanging up in a shed a few miles from the fuse, the guy who owns the shed also has a complete Chinook in an old covered trailer and is for sale at the right price.

 

 

I have an original Winton jackaroo

Flyerme is that a recent photo of the Jackaroo and recent restoration or an old pic of how it was sold by Col, the wing looks very interesting and just wondering with some slight mods this could be adapted to go on the B1rd, they double skinned the wings in the states and got more speed but stall speed went up also. The condition of that Jackaroo is amazing and are they black max rims on the wheels.

 

 

I have an original Winton jackaroo

Flyerme is that a recent photo of the Jackaroo and recent restoration or an old pic of how it was sold by Col, the wing looks very interesting and just wondering with some slight mods this could be adapted to go on the B1rd, they double skinned the wings in the states and got more speed but stall speed went up also. The condition of that Jackaroo is amazing and are they black max rims on the wheels.

 

 

Unfortunately, due to Howard Hughes passing.

Sad and unfortunate news recently, and will be missed greatly by family and friends and the broader aviation community.

 

That will be a Jab3300 powered one

I was under the impression but maybe wrong, the Australian bug was going to be powered by either a jet or this new engine you were/was/are designing.

 

 

We are going to need a secret handshake to be used by all forum members!

Secret handshakes, hmmmmm will leave that to you and other forum members, no way I'm gunna be accused of having done things with sheep or goats, lol

 

 

I hope to get to the next Murgon fly-in.

 

I thought so, what do you mean come and say Hi, I did, but as you had just got in I think I said go have some breakfast, chat later but after a short intro and story you did.

 

 

 

He finally relented and now it's mine.

Dave what a fantastic read this has been thus far, you are so passionate about finding and doing things with this little craft it's riveting and a credit to you, I guess these type of aircraft appeal to only a certain small percentage of us and a large percentage are in the Low and Slow category, but still a passionate story and well worth the read.

 

Keep up the great work and hope to follow your Komet/ Vbomb oops Jet Bug project, cant wait to see the little bug all painted and repaired photos and maybe so in air shots as you crack a sonic boom low over the Winnsboro strip

 

 

And when you add the other aerodynamic bits of non-structural 'aircraft' it looks like this:

Or they can look like this, this one used coat lining, the shiny polyester you see on the back of vests in it's wings and tail feathers.

 

 

 

Great lil plane. I have an original Winton jackaroo. Another of cols designs.love em

Flyerme that is one sweet looking little craft, a love the black.

 

 

I happen to know where there is one in Qld, Gympie actually, has seen better days and sitting out in the weather with cheap plastic tarp over it.

 

 

 

Pretty sure that Rans S-7S is the same one I was drooling over at Angelfield 1 or 2 flyins ago, couldn't take my eyes off the welded joints, one nice bit of work and a lovely aircraft, maybe it will return on 11th June for our winter flyin Breakfast, best breakfast in Qld.