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  1. Sapphire
    Welcome Maxnett. There are lots of passions on this site, flying being one of them.
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    If not, his asi will go haywire and he wont know if he is on top or bottom:roflmao: this could be another never ending story. Anyways, got to go sailing.....................
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    Gee Kyle, you need to think big.
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    [quote="Kyle Communications, post: 247766, member: 1910" ....and my sex life didnt change at all Mark That may change as you get stuck into the building-beware of a/c with big pitot tubes.........
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    The house has become your penitentiary and the shed freedom-I know which I would take.
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    now getting very nervous Keep working on it till you dont get "nervous"
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    The most critical part of that a/c is the cunnard and possible flutter. It has had extensive windtunnel testing and redesign. It has to be the right weight, size, balance, shape, profile and angle of incidence. Your life depends on some cowboy getting it right in his home workshop maybe after a late night out.
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    When you are flying the circuit you are slow and low. In my opinion you want to fly the best option for your a/c of a glide approch back to the strip.
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    No matter how much you have you want something you can't afford.
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    Some carbys have a hole already drilled. If not it's important to put in right spot as indicated by mfg. Otherwise you are just reading ambient air.
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    I get bogged down with the continual changes. Some a/c are 600kg and ultralights, I think, but don't know if it applies to that a/c. Stall speeeds can be fudged. If one gets through, it's a piece of cake for the rest. See if any were ultralights. Don't know if you worked on Contiental 0-200. Has new and older cyl. heads shown by shape of fins. Three oversizes for pistons which means 4 lives. Want to buy on the first life. Price wise depends a lot on demand. If you are the only one interested then theoretically you can name the price. Once looked at an a/c at a salvage yard and asking about 7 grand. The engine was thrown into one room. Bits of the tail were in another room and the rest dumped on a farm. He said if he didn't sell it he would bury it into a hole in the ground. A lot of a/c sit stored away for a lifetime because they are too much work for the owner to fix up-especially req. fabric recover. Should give it away on the hope someone will fix it up.
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    What are they wanting for it and what engine does it have Scotty?
  13. Sapphire
    I use RAA
  14. Sapphire
    Do kyou need a reason to get heaps more money?
  15. Sapphire
    Calm down ayavner:crazy: You don't want to tangle with the pickle slicer machine above. It would be all over before you could say "ouch"
  16. Sapphire
    Solbern model HVOP. Does 240 quarts of pickles per minute. It would have been painless.
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    [quote="flying dog, post: 247097, member: 555". Question/s: 1 - If people keep breaking the sound barrier, who is the poor person who has to keep fixing it? Don't look at me-I didn't break nuttin in the last 10 minutes:crying:
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    I wish I could get up that fast in the morning.
  19. Sapphire
    I always had digs in my posts on that a\c. Thirteen thousand have been sold and provides very affordable, portable flying. They cost [in USA problably] about 9 grand with most of that for the engine and mfg liability. Stall is 17kts and vne 56 kts and runway length 100ft. Though it's name could be a little more macho, it seems to be a well tested a/c [by 13000 pilots]
  20. Sapphire
    A sling shot made from electromagnets seems possible with present technology. Though the acceleration needed to get to escape velocity would turn any astronaut looking like a squashed fly on the wall.
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    uh?
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    The way I understand it the published speed of sound is based at sea level 20c. Go higher and the speed slows down in the thinning atmosphere till you reach outer space [where dazza flys around] but sound doesn't travel. The mach figure is based on the speed you are flying divided by the published speed of sound. The higher you fly the faster you fly [TAS] given a constant IAS. So your mach number increases. At Oshkosh they had "jet day" and I was at the western end of the strip looking at ultralights. A jet at 100ft decided to head in my direction over the runway and was silent until a fraction of a second passing me.............thats faster than sound demonstrated feet away. In line with the thread title, Mr. Baumgartner is very diciplined and that put the odds in his favour. When his balloon scraped the ground he could have done a "John Wayne" and yelled "Cut the ropes, were going anyways". But this is not the movies and he suceeded on another attempt. Think his luck would run out if he tried it every second weekend.
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    Carby temp guages should be mandatory. The carby in my plane iced up at the sight of a popsicle-depends where they are mounted in relation to the engine and airflow.
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    Looks like something that would be developed in New Zealand
  25. Sapphire
    Especially if you slam on your brakes infront of them. After that they can follow you with their engine off.
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