Would you fly this

[shafs64]

[ayavner]

wonder what that would take to get airworthy again....

 

heh note the fine adjustment tool down by the LH tyre....

 

 

[shafs64]

the left wheel is a bit off track and i like there wheel chock and it is also used for fine ajustments.

 

 

[Old Koreelah]

Full marks for enthusiasm and initiative, but I wonder about that wing profile. Looks like an aerobatic shape- would work as well upside down.

 

 

[eightyknots]

The propellor has been nicely varnished so far. It is evident that the restoration project is starting at the front and working its way back.

 

 

[damkia]

I wonder what model car the engine is from? Look at the air filter on top and the coil near leftmost kid's left hand....

 

The propellor has been nicely varnished so far. It is evident that the restoration project is starting at the front and working its way back

It has actually got a decent coat of white paint on the tail plane too...

 

 

[shafs64]

I wonder what model car the engine is from? Look at the air filter on top and the coil near leftmost kid's left hand....

 

It has actually got a decent coat of white paint on the tail plane too...

Layland P76

 

 

[Teckair]

Its a bit sad really someone has gone to a fair bit of trouble there.

 

 

[flyerme]

OMG that looks like my old bunyip! although theres is in better shape:roflmao:

 

 

[kaz3g]

Perhaps the engine fire only burnt the front bit?

 

Kaz

 

 

[Guest nunans]

She's alright, I'd fly it if the wing struts were welded on instead of G-clamped, the wings were covered and the balance was checked. The motor is not that important, lots of gliders don't even come with a motor...

 

 

[flyerme]

She's alright, I'd fly it if the wing struts were welded on instead of G-clamped, the wings were covered and the balance was checked. The motor is not that important, lots of gliders don't even come with a motor...

wing strutts clamped? i'd be more concern about the once galv water pipe tubing spars..lol suprised there holding the neg g's on the ground..lol

 

 

[eightyknots]

Layland P76

Possibly this is a Tata Motors engine? See article: "Third Nano goes up in flames, this one in Delhi"

 

Source: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-08-28/india-business/28320811_1_tata-nano-safe-car-tata-motors

 

 

 

[Gnarly Gnu]

Nasty! Didn't know Tata were making electric cars (recently renowned for their self-combustion abilities).

 

 

[alf jessup]

Ummm, Na I wouldn't fly it and neither will they, not now not never but an imaginative mind from them Injuns

 

 

[Teckair]

She's alright, I'd fly it if the wing struts were welded on instead of G-clamped, the wings were covered and the balance was checked. The motor is not that important, lots of gliders don't even come with a motor...

No you wouldn't and neither will any body else.

 

 

[Guest nunans]

No you wouldn't and neither will any body else.

Speak for yourself buddy,

 

 

[damkia]

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"It'll buff out..."

 

 

[shafs64]

its going to need a lot of buffing

 

 

[Teckair]

Speak for yourself buddy,

Sorry mate but I can not see how that would get off the ground no matter who was flying it.

 

 

[Tomo]

If the wings turn out like the tail section, it'll look quite good I reckon. Will be interesting weight and balance, but we're talking about enthusiasm here, they'll work something out.

 

Once you travel OS and see some of these places and what they do, it wouldn't surprise me if they get a finished flying project one way or the other.

 

 

[shafs64]

off a cliff would be the only way

 

 

[damkia]

"It flies in much the same way as a brick doesn't..."

 

(Douglas Adams: "Hitchiker's guide to the Galaxy")

 

 

[johnm]

one or two JATO packs .................. if it proves a bit too heavy !

 

 

[Pilot Pete]

Unless we know the full story and the materials used, dont underestimate the ingenuity of the Indians to produce something flyable from this hodgepodge of metal and motor. Give them a gun or machine and they can reproduce it with basic tools in their homes.