Thruster88 Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 A hanger for the RV6A is underway. Might even paint the floor in this one. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flightrite Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 A hanger for the RV6A is underway. Might even paint the floor in this one. [ATTACH=full]54672[/ATTACH] Hope yr Vans is 4x4 capable!? Be very careful Thruster, I've seen a few A's on their lids! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thruster88 Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Hope yr Vans is 4x4 capable!? Be very careful Thruster, I've seen a few A's on their lids! Thankyou for the reminder Flightrite, I am operating from the big strip in town whilst getting familiar with the RV. Finding it to be an obedient and pleasant aircraft to fly and land. A good many Thrusters have had their U/C bent and busted and some end upside down, is it a fault with the aircraft, perhaps not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howe Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 And its Mobile 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flightrite Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Lota drag from those flaps ?? 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butch Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Lota drag from those flaps ?? Still waiting for a few pics from your last flight Old Mate ! Seeing you are always out and about! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panorama Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 Has anyone used roller doors with removable mullions for there hangar doors? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 My Garage has that, built to house an 18 foot wingspan hummelBird. spacesailor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thruster88 Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 Doors are coming but the view is so nice from the house.😍😍 7 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul davenport Posted December 7, 2020 Author Share Posted December 7, 2020 Got the floor painted yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClintonB Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 You have a raaus orange glider tucked away also I notice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thruster88 Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 On 10/12/2020 at 8:39 PM, ClintonB said: You have a raaus orange glider tucked away also I notice. Yes, started out with RC models and like simple things. I see you and I have aircraft from 1963. I love mine more as each year goes by. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClintonB Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 Models started costing me too much from prangs, it was cheaper to go and fly a thruster with Eugene back in Tassie in the end. I still have a heap of models and all my old magazines AUF and airbourne ( my wife calls me a hoarder). I want to teach my kids to fly them, if they can get of the computer long enough. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NT5224 Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 Here's where mines at... still got to enclose the back... all materials and delivery for structure came in under $7000.. 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackc Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 Plane lives with other junk :-: 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Koreelah Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 21 hours ago, jackc said: Plane lives with other junk :-: Hey Jack; shouldn’t that wooden prop be horizontal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackc Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 55 minutes ago, Old Koreelah said: Hey Jack; shouldn’t that wooden prop be horizontal? Errrrr......dunno? Not sure , that Sweetapple prop was redone, varnished and balanced. Nothing was said by the Aeropup man who did the aircraft? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thruster88 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 3 minutes ago, jackc said: Errrrr......dunno? Not sure , that Sweetapple prop was redone, varnished and balanced. Nothing was said by the Aeropup man who did the aircraft? There is an old wives tale that says the water in the wood will drain down to the bottom and unbalance the prop if it is not left level. Not sure why it doesn't just come out the tips whilst flying, the blades would be pulling a high number of G. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackc Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 5 minutes ago, Thruster88 said: There is an old wives tale that says the water in the wood will drain down to the bottom and unbalance the prop if it is not left level. Not sure why it doesn't just come out the tips whilst flying, the blades would be pulling a high number of G. I will turn the prop 180 degrees for a couple of weeks then set it horizontal, that should fix it! 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabiru7252 Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 It oils in the wood (not water) that will apparently drain (due to gravity) to the lower end of the prop if it's left vertical for a long time. But, like Thruster88 says, surely the very high G's experienced by the spinning prop would very quickly throw out the oils etc. Too much to learn, so little time... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgwilson Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 (edited) In the early days of the pandemic I had plenty of spare time and 10 litres of white paint so I painted the internal framework of my hangar to smarten it up a bit. Worked out OK. Edited February 9, 2021 by kgwilson 7 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Gearon Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 On 09/02/2021 at 10:23 PM, kgwilson said: In the early days of the pandemic I had plenty of spare time and 10 litres of white paint so I painted the internal framework of my hangar to smarten it up a bit. Worked out OK.ive I've purchased 2 X 250mm C purlins X 10 Metres to accomplish what you have there in those simple trusses and the 2 uprights either side of wing. Maybe the low labour input of my C purlins will balance this. I just stick them up and weld then cut out the middle support...500 dollars worth and I have to get them to french island....If I'd seen this I'd have been tempted to do similar. I'll stick pictures up as I get my workshop conversion to hangar sorted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgwilson Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 The centre bit on the concrete was all that was left when I pulled the rest of this original T hangar down & made it full size, now with a 12.5 metre width and 7 metre depth. The steel from the original wing boxes was used for the external frame & C section purlins (unpainted) for the roof. Total cost was dilapidated T hangar 4K, purlins & house lot of hail dented colorbond, concrete footings, nuts, bolts, roof screws & welding rod, 1.5K so a complete hangar for 5.5K. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Gearon Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 (edited) I’ve gone from hangar greenhouse style to realization I have a huge shed and can drop out an upright with added double C purlin 250mm x 2.5mm. Easy job with extended tracks and same sheets used to make second slide door. 20 hours and 700 dollars. Have 10mm sag and will Jack up 20mm and add 20mm tensioned rods angling up and to each side. I’ll bet it unjacks to perfect. Unjack must be a word. I just used it. wife doing her first ever weld in pic. I was surprised as it was okay. May polyurethane floor and line an area of 15m x 8m and buy a rans 21. Rans is 4 hours drive from my USA home and can partially build there and bring in if as a maybe long term plan. Edited March 1, 2021 by Mike Gearon Spell check tried to correct unjack to ijack 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Koreelah Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 4 hours ago, Mike Gearon said: wife doing her first ever weld in pic. I was surprised as it was okay... Mike an intellectual type I once knew surprised me with his impressive welding skills. He said his mum had taught him. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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