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  1. Hi Folks, I'm also looking at own design 95.10 in this case wooden construction cranked delta, no drawings yet, only notebook sketches but the big hurdle from my point of view is doing the stressing. I have a couple of books on homebuilts which give you rule of thumb type approaches but it is hard to work out what forces to apply under different flight conditions - any suggestions would be appreciated. I could use the TLAR (That Looks About Right) method then when completed, load it to design limits and hope that it doesn't break but if it does, a lot of work would be wasted! Regarding scanning large paper plans, I used an old door, cut out a space for the scanner so that the scanner was flush with the door surface and scanned some large DH2 plans on my A4 scanner then stitched the resulting images (about 18 per drawing sheet) together using Paint Shop pro, this allowed me to rotate those images that were misaligned or inverted. I found that some of the photo stitching software available needed too large an overlap and didn't work well with line drawings. If you want to go the whole hog, in many CAD programs, you can import a raster image and then in another layer, "trace" over the drawing to produce a scaleable vector image but I haven't tried that myself yet. Cheers Greg
  2. Hi Tony, I agree that the machine is of historic importance and that at the time it was sold on it probably should have retained its AUF/RAA number and assuming the number hasn't been reissued and it sounds like you have conclusive proof that the aircraft is the original wearer of that number then I certainly agree that it should be entitled to wear that number and preserve its heritage. Just my 2 cents worth. Incidentally, if the aircraft was not written off the books why should it not qualify anyway just by renewing the original rego? Cheers Greg
  3. Hi All, I've only recently stumbled across this excellent site so I thought I'd join up. I'm currently a "wanna-be" flyer, recently moved to Binda NSW having spent most of the last 20 years in the Darwin rural area where I initially did a few hours training in Thrusters then several years later managed to get a few hours up in an Airborne Edge trike and finally in 1999 bought a secondhand Pegasus trike which I unfortunately bent after about 7 hours solo. The result was that although I managed to get most of the parts from UK (the freight was more than the parts cost) I ran out of money and had to sell as a "basket case" So for now I'm back to dreaming as I'm sure many others are! I am contemplating building a CAO95.10 aircraft as the maintenance and repair work can be performed by the builder however I'll need to understand more about stress analysis before finalising a design. I don't want to actually go back to flying training yet as I find it too frustrating without something to actually fly whenever I want to! Cheers Greg
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