Peter G

Robinsm and Paul G do the pitch blocks supplied by bolly fit the Brolga Props or do I need to buy an entirely new Bolly Prop to change the Blade angle ???? New Xair Standard Owner

I have a Bolly carbon prop on mine which has a two piece main hub the blades sandwich between and gives me what ever pitch I want to set it to, the Brolga prop with pitch blocks are probably easier to set as you just buy the block you want.

I used a digital pitch meter to set my blades which took time to set right, the pic below is mine one before we bolted it together :)

cheers Pete

Why? I would have thought they were more likely to be Gods of the Runway/Taxiway, surely once they (taildraggers) are in the air they are no different, it is on the ground where they will bite you.

The only disadvantage I found with wooden props is the bad habit wood props have or turning into paddlepop sticks when flying through rain squalls. Composite props dont have that problem, but if wet weather flying aint going to happen then the new wooden one could be interesting.

it would of been a shame to loose the company, they still have a place in the sky even though most want 100kts carbon $100K+ aircraft :)

My X-Air finished at 259kg empty with headsets, ipad, aera 500 and performance I very happy with, Just finished flying the 25 test hours and happy to have the just received my full rego on 4th.

been to wet and windy to push it to fly lately but having a ball :) X country endorsement is my next goal...

My version is a little up to the standard weight having the new gloss skins and the mods I made to suit me being a wheelchair pilot, extra wide entry and a center rudder / throttle control etc and flies like a gem...

I will post an update soon on a new design wood prop to compare the performance with the bolly on it now

My brother filmed me having some fun before all the rain soaked my runway..

Pete

you can also buy a compass knife at places like lincraft etc then cut your own rings with coloured contact

I purchased one to use on my X-Air ASI and its easy to cut the outer ring then reduce the compass dia 3mm then cut again.... too easy :)

Pete

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looks great, you fly it much?

I have one too that I been restoring..

Pete

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Hi Brendon,

Maybe Rod Shearer can help you do it, he is based in Bendigo but may be able to inspect it for ya if has can fit it in?

he done my inspection and report and if very thorough... he is a busy man but worth a try, his contact is 0419 717 212

cheers Pete

HI Jimmy,

I asked the same question to Ra-Aus over xmas as I trained in a Foxbat and just finished building a X-Air standard with 582,

I hope my below the dotted line reply clears up your question :)

you will only need a 2S endorsing :)

Pete

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nice pics Mark :) yes the new Phantom 3 use lightbridge and can link to a Ipad or mobile for the screen..

we should stick one on our Jets and film a high speed flight.... would look sweet as hey

Yes Keith the gps is fine.I can leave in the hover, put the transmitter on ground and drag the thing away 20ft or so and when I let it go it returns to where it started.

I've replaced all the cables and flight controller, reloaded the app, but still no height, speed and distance indication on screen.

 

It's got me beaten at the moment, but I never give up till a problems resolved.

it tells you the phantom battery voltage, how many sats you have, your height, distance, compass direction and they also have a small dot on the screen that follows the drone and lets you know which side of yourself the quad is eg if your on the left side of you the dot will be on the left of the screen... its really cool and makes the flying so much more fun to have the full data being displayed in the screen :)

I spend lots of time building, repairing, setting up quads hexcopters, helicopters etc which is kind of my thing being a Hobby shop owner :) and you are so right flown carefully they are so much fun.

DJI have some really great features to make then safe and easy to fly but to keep the machine working at its best the compass needs to be calibrated before its first flight, if you have a light crash and the big one if you take further that 50km from its last calibration point.

I always do mine if taking it a distance to keep the GPS location current and have to date never had a flying issue ever... I have also re set the software to go max height of 120m from its TAKE OFF POINT and 1000m distance that way I dont go above the legal height... Even at 120m up it takes some great pics but I have seen youtube videos of them going up in the clouds which is part why some give them a bad name....

Keep under the 400ft height and 30m away from people and have a awesome time flying ya Phantoms :)

Oh if you add gimbals, cameras lights etc also make sure you re balance it level with motors off because if its heavy on one side you will reduce your flight time in GPS mode due to two the motors revving higher all the time to keep the Quad level and they also handle crap flying in manual mode too if not balanced level..

Pete

Hi Peter, the portable fuel tanker and pump looks a ripper. My understanding about fuel quality if that it goes "off" or loses some of its octane rating if stored for several weeks and that fresh fuel is always preferred. I'm curious if pilots refuelling from tanks or 44 gal drums, consume that much fuel in weeks? if not, is the fuel sitting in the tank for long period. Maybe this is not an issue and I'm just interested as I it would take me 2-3 months to use 200litres of PULP.

having the trailer setup for me is easy to full up at the servo then fill my plane same as at a bowser filling my car so for me its so easy.... I hear ya on using a 200lt tank with fuel going off but the club here in bendigo have the same set up with what looks like a 2000lt tank and It gives no issues of fuel going off in the club planes...

As long as it has a good fuel filter system its a safe way to carry fuel and fill my wings up..

The semi tanks I was looking at using are about 200lt but it would still be a great setup with a smaller 100lt tank for 1-3 weeks of flying and I guess it depends on how often we have time to fly :)

anyway its the setup I will be making for sure, I have the trailer already and just have to sort the Tank, pump, battery and glass filter and its happy days lol

I kind of got of the subject question on the rotary pump but reading everyones input I wanted to ask the question for some feedback on the idea and was thinking of a rotary pump instead but settled for the easyer ep pump. for me its to do things easy rather than struggle and spill fuel on myself trying to lift it... haha

Pete

I was wanting to make this setup but reading all your posts do you think its going to be ok to fill from a servo and use in Aus?

the only difference I was going to use the $400 blue unleaded fuel pump I see on ebay like Mark posted the link to..

The Tank I was thinking of buying a Truck fuel tank and not making one or using a 44gal

the Pic was from a bloke in USA

My Chinook Moves the control surface both up and down like a aileron dose, it actually moves more up than down which I gather was designed to not allow the lowering aileron surface to slow the wing and cause a yaw effect. shall we say a mechanical differential design.

as you know with yours no part of the wing spars etc warp as it has two struts to hold the wings in place, true wing warping flex the wing to change the incidence and the WT11 clearly is not controlled that way.

All they did was to design the wing to pivot from the rear spar to the wing trailing edge by using the wing ribs cut so I guess because it uses the fabric as the hinge people see it as wing warping but a true wing warp twist the wing total to change the incidence and if you look at the chinook when you move the control stick left and right you done see the wing spars move only the rear hinged aileron does... a true wing warping wing has a mass of cables along the wings top and bottom surface which pull the full wing cord to twist surface and control it in the air like the Wright Flyer did.

Thats Just my opinion though, as I have one :)

Hey James,

I got parts some parts I needed for my restore from the manufacture in Canada, Paulette was her name. I hope they are still in business :)

I replaced the elevator bearings from the black pvc looking ones which had lots of play to the white delrin type they make...

The pulleys in the wings is something to check... PLEASE do as I found mine were warn to the point where the aileron cable could fit between the pulley and the pulley plate which if happened in the air would totally jam up the control and be a disaster....

We only found this out when we took the wings off and I was playing with the two cables on the ground pretending I was flying it lol it was pull up pull down look I'm flying then.......... what the! my aileron is stuck.... better look inside the wing..

sure enough the cable was stuck between the pulley and the holder which wore out to the point that allowed the cable to fit between the housing and jam up... maybe not happen in flight as the cable was loose in my hands but who would take a chance..

I found they are only a nylon pulley too with no bearing which mixed with a stainless cable is a silly idea but I guess all they had to use in the 80's... anyway I went to my local yacht place and got some beautiful double ball raced stainless double and single pulleys and replaced the total setup from the outer aileron all the way back to the centre control plate, if you have one you know what I mean :) the guy at the yacht supply place looked shocked at it use as nylon pulleys are for rope and not cable..

also inspect the elevator pipe's where the outside hinge is as I saw mine had a hair line crack where the pipe is flattened and bent to hinge the elevator. that was fixed up too...

check the landing gear system too, the early ones used a alum pipe to pivot the wheel off and the later ones were steel axle...

the other update was the pipe just behind the seat make sure you have the steel pipe there too as the alum ones failed on some...

add a few pics of yours if you have some? be good to see what you have.

And to others please don’t be a dumb ass and correct me to say the Chinook WT11 has wing warping system not a aileron as I mentioned lol

cheers Pete

Funny to state that its so much cheaper to run so the first thing you would think as a student is... awesome my lessons will be cut by 60-80%, then at $180K cost he states schools will pay the difference off in 1 year then be putting money in the bank....

UMMMM but if students are paying 60-80% less for training how do the schools pay off the aircraft cost difference in 1-2 years??? lol

Quicksilver MXL

This link seems to have the right ones we need... just came across them today looking for the right decal type....

I hope it's ok to post a link on here

http://www.wingtech.com.au/page6.htm

laser cut sign-writing material vinyl no good..... I had some made about 4 weeks ago and they are now peeling off.....

This stuff looks great to use as a floor but not sure what they charge and its Aussie made too

http://www.profloor.com.au/products/portable-roadway/

cheers Pete

HI Tony,

My wing has 3.5 deg washout between the inner first wing rib out to the outside rib, dihedral is the thickness of the ribs at the wing tip.

The Wing strut lengths will be what you set both washout and dihedral with...

I hope this helps your setup and if you need more details let me know.....

Pete

Hi Guys,I am very gratefull for all your inputs from every each of you.

 

I think I have to disclose a bit more about this particular one seater Thruster 'T85SG' I am reconstructing.

 

It has the dihedral 50mm at the leading edge. (Only.)

 

What is alarming to me, it has got a NEGATIVE (!) washout so bad so the ailreons appear to have NEGATIVE dihedral by 50mm.

 

It still was flying, but not by me.

 

Now, everybody on this post would agree this is absolutely wrong and I have to do something about it.

 

It is very easy to extend the rear struts only if I know by how much exactly.

 

Talking degrees, one degree represents a shift up of trailing edge by 22.5mm.

 

Measured as cross section as a difference in Angle of Incidence that is.

 

If Peter G can measure that in degrees please do so.

 

Thanks, please keep going here.

 

Never assuming anything Tony

I will measure the fr & re wing struts from bolt to bolt as well as check the wing washout with my digital incidence meter.

I can see if I can get some side on pics looking down the spars to get a idea of washout..

After working in the morning I am heading out there in the arvo and will post tomorrow evening :)

I was told my Thruster is a one off so things may be built different on my T83 EHF than yours to give you a idea of the changes on my plane were,

T500 Landing gear which gives a wider more stable track for ground handling,

Enclosed cabin with wide doors and rear pod to streamline,

Aerofoil wing struts,

flaperons,

The wing and cabin are more forward to give a more smoother pitch control having a longer tail length (also reduces the issue of ground looping).

Fiberglass airfoil shape farings covering all the box tubes on the lower fuselage..

I have the Technical Data Manual which states on the cover "THRUSTER '84" by ULTRALIGHT AVIATION PTY LTD which is a little different to my plane but has lots of the detailed info on the single seater Thruster anyway if you want other close up pics let me know before midday :)

Pete