FlyBoy1960

Any page that has the word "Investor" in the main navigation menu rings alarm bells with me !

I didn't mean it like that. There is just so much effort going into what is available but there is a perfect model of shock absorber out there which are approved for the aircraft, they are built to the manufacturer's specification, they are easily available from what I can read, and they are inexpensive. Everyone is trying to reinvent the wheel for something that has no problem. If the standard ones were not up to the task then I could understand all of the research, questions and complications of finding an alternative product, but when the standard ones seem to work perfectly well, are not overpriced, and are approved by the manufacturer, then you should just use that product. In many different countries you don't have a choice, you have to use what the manufacturer supplies and you cannot substitute parts. It's like me trying to find an oval tire for my motor vehicle even though I know a round one will work perfectly and is made to suit my motor vehicle.

All this discussion over what ?, they are something like $180 each according to an owner, just buy the correct ones and move on ?

They are made by Armstrong in India to the specifications of xair according to the box the new ones came in, if i remember correctly. The main member who looked after the plane tried for weeks to get them from Armstrong without success. This was about 15 years ago now but things might have changed. There is also a french supplier of an air shock but they are way expensive and the crome plating came off the shaft in less than 12 months letting the nitrogen escape. There is more on this on the xair support website. [email protected]

I had access to, and flew an X-Air owned by our club, great little plane. We looked around to find replacement shock absorbers and we spent more than the price of the originals in trialing some from a motorbike and some from a car neither of which worked. We needed to get replacement shock absorbers because of a really long taxi over rocky ground. It eventually wore out the rubbers in the ends of the shock absorbers that couldn't be replaced. The ones off motorbikes are not designed for an aircraft that weighs 500 kg, they were way too soft even with the springs packed out, even with nobody in the aircraft it sat down on its tail with a shock absorbers fully compressed. Someone else sourced a set from some sort of dune buggy but they were way too hard and you might as well have put pipes in where the shock absorbers should have gone. Just buy the originals and problems sorted.

I just had a meat pie for dinner, tasty but i doubt any of the above were included

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Unless this was the fastest horse in the world you would see him coming 2 minutes away, look at the nothing in the background in the photos ? Very strange ?

He looked ok being driven away in the horse float, even looked like he was smiling Horse 1 - Jabiru 0 If he was in fact more injured, then thats a real shame, RIP Horse because now I feel bad for making fun of him and horsing around with some of my comments.

Even the 'victims' will get a laugh out of these really bad jokes.

c'mon, stop the horsi'n around!

No it was a horse, a white horse, he left in a white horse float full of hay with a split lip and a black eye. Teach him to take on a bird !

Did he do his first flight with a passenger ?

It can only fly for 2 hours and its empty ? Rand is only 420 NM ?

There was never any legal action by the importer to the RAA, never ever. It was not a Pipistrel Sinus but a TL-Ultralight Sting. The failure of the crank came because the then owner flew the plane for > 6 months with a spinner he fitted and drilled by hand ! Apparently the vibration was so bad he got numb feet after 10 minutes but he kept on flying. He did this for more than 6 months. All this came to light after the coroners inquest when the full document package was available, which included the owners maintenance records that were not presented in court. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story !

Looks like the ellipse but that has a T tail. might be the FK14 Polaris but not sure. there was an all carbon aerobatic plane that came out of Germany about 15 years ago, it had wings like a Spitfire with the elliptical ends and could be trailered in about 15 minutes. Stop and start production and a few different owners over the years. I can't remember its name now but from memory it was only a single seater. I can't tell but this one may be a dual seater in the photo. Somebody wiser than me will know straight away

There is a glider strip East-West just north of Cooma. Its the entry for mountain wave flying in a few months when the westerly's start blowing. Been there a few times, its name alludes me but the gliding people would know of it.

Windows computer and chrome browser

The page doesn't scale now ? You have to scroll to view all the width, it doesnt resize ?

Stereo versus mono on the headset plugs for listening to those tunes'

It looks like a nice plane. This photo is a Heck Field ?

They had this on display probably 10 years ago, at the time there was no suitable engine that didn't weigh 200 kgs

Not bad for a 2 Stroke in the rain !

Looks nice, good luck ! Comment: Put the price in the description also. It took me a while to find it at the top of the screen.