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Who remembers "Yes What" (starring Greenbottle and Bottomly) on Sydney's 2UE? I couldn't wait for the next episode which appeared twice per week. This thread is starting to be like that: I am awaiting the next development!!

Perhaps Rod will be a bidder?

Nice set up! Do the ICP altimeter and Dynon have separate pitot tubes?

Have any of the 200 buyers of the steel bungee ever weighed the new Viking bungee and compared the weight with the original Zenith bungee? If so, what are the weights?

Have any of the Subject: Latest from Viking Latest from Viking 200th Steel Bungee sold Viking Turbo 170 Flying through its first 200 hours Compare with UL 350 max torque of 236 ft.lb to Viking 130 at 286 ft.lb 170 HP to altitude. The Viking 170 Viking Turbo engines - 460 ft.lb at 2000 prop rpm

Hi BoxFat: I am not sure why this came up as a Caution when I originally clicked on Creative. I liked your creative solution of filling the large tyres with helium for increasing the take off weight! You would get even better results with hydrogen, if you wanted to take the risk!

Tailwheel or Tricycle?

I wonder how much money he/she would have saved if they would have bought an 100 hp Rotax 912 to start off with?

I understand he did the "higher order" stress calculations for the Concorde. I would have to re-find his bio (somewhere on line) which describes this some more.

Is this a fault with the ICP tanks? ...a weakness perhaps?

Haha, Marty, I am going anyway to catch up with my family in Northern NSW and Sydney. My son lives in Grafton so I am going via BNE.

The designer (Chris Heintz) was a stress engineer for the Concorde and Robins in France as well as for De Havilland in Canada. (as the designer, so the builder)

Hi Mark, I am flying to Australia to pick one up on the morning of the 10th December. Two sets please: one for myself and one for Forum member iBob.

Diesel engines by their nature, being a high compression engine with far greater forces involved, always need to built heavier so they do not explode under the considerably greater compression load. I am not sure whether there will ever be a true light weight diesel engine. The other 'penalty' is the fuel weight. Diesel is about 40% heavier than avgas or mogas.

I will answer my own question. It seems that Valter of ICP - USA is soon to take delivery of one of the new ICP engines which have been under development for the last four years since this thread started. In planning for my Savannah build next year, I am still scratching my head about an engine. I ordered a "homebuilthelp" DVD with the Rotax alternatives so I will view them with interest. I am sure the ICP would not be in the DVD as they have not officially gone into production. I wonder six things about this engine: 1. how light is the motor? ....their original goal was to get this down to 67 kg. 2. how thirsty is this donk? ...worse or better than a 912? 3. how powerful is it? ....originally, their goal was to produce 115 hp at 6,900 rpm. 4. how reliable is this engine going to be? ....this, unfortunately, will have to wait until there are quite a few flying quite a few hours. 5. how much will this power plant be? ...landed cost of course. 6. what mounting system will this ICP engine employ? .... will it fit with a standard Rotax mount, a Jabiru mount, or an ICP you-beaut special mount specifically for this engine?

Hi Bob, I first came across this development four years ago and posted the information in this forum: New engine from ICP (manufacturer of the Savannah) and Google Translate Subsequent to this, I read that the development would take "up to five years" so it seems that we're at the mass production end of this engine's development or close to it. In planning for my Savannah build next year, I am still scratching my head about an engine. I ordered a "homebuilthelp" DVD with the Rotax alternatives so I will view them with interest. I am sure the ICP would not be in the DVD as they have not officially gone into production. I wonder four things about this engine: 1. how light is it? ....their original goal was to get this down to 67 kg. 2. how thirsty is this donk? ...worse or better than a 912? 3. how powerful is it? ....originally, their goal was to produce 115 hp at 6,900 rpm. 4. how reliable is this engine going to be? ....this, unfortunately, will have to wait until there are quite a few flying quite a few hours.

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Hi Mc3s, a warm to the forum!

Hi Marty, nice to see you have joined this forum. We'd love to hear of your experiences and see some of your pictures!

Have you got any pictures how the Dynon is fitted and integrated into the Savannah dashboard?

If, or rather when, I am going to build a plane it will be an assembly of parts rather than what you have been doing. Marty, I have great admiration for what you are achieving. Do you have any pictures of the process you have described above?

Solagard is an amazing product. Where I work we used to use "road paint" to mark the car park stripes. This lasts about 5-6 years in full sun. The problem is that the road paint is expensive and has some pretty bad fumes coming off it. We tried Wattyll Solagard and this is pretty much fume-free and it seems to be just a durable for car tyre wear and sun exposure as the road paint which is four times the price. "What'll they think of next?" It had never occurred to me to use Solagard as an aviation paint: it is a pretty tough product, once it has had a week of hardening, and remains somewhat flexible as HIC pointed out, a real plus. I wonder if Solagard can be applied to aircraft aluminium with a non-epoxy undercoat? (I am thinking of lightness)

I agree, but by that time there will, hopefully, a dedicated Savannah paint thread.

I will probably have to look into that too. I have size 12 feet and toe brakes scare me when the pedals are small. I actually prefer heel brakes for that reason (I am probably in the minority here). But with extended pedals that will make it a lot more useable.