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Mahendra Aerospace website only lists GA8 and GA10. GA18 gone byebye.

Sadly, the GA18 guru's were let go in one of there mass sackings. No one is even qualified to fly the demo machine now and it is gathering dust in the hanger last I heard.

 

 

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The only mention is on the Service page, and refers to Nomad, not GA18.

Yer I heard they brought the "Nomad" from Boeing along with a massive parts inventory and part of the deal is they have to support all current nomads that are flying across the world.

 

 

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History of VH-XGZ from http://nzcivair.blogspot.com.au/2011/09/exported-gaf-n24a-nomad-zk-nmc.html?m=1

 

It was first registered to the Department of Health Northern Territory Medical Service (Flying Doctor is easier to say) of Darwin on 03-11-1977 as VH-DHP.

 

In September of 1987 it went to Skywest Aviation Pty Ltd of Cloverdale, West Australia and then was noted parked up at Darwin until listed to Kelvin Stark of Auckland on 17-12-1996.

 

It arrived in NZ in December of 1996 and joined the Air Safaris & Services (NZ) Ltd fleet at Tekapo from 05-05-1997 as ZK-NMC.

 

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Gday Mike.

Ah.. Pilks.. Hello again.. by the way I am pretty sure I know the cause of the N24 stick force anomaly.. after I left GAF I was going over all the details.. with the crash I kept going back to the aerodynamic model.. and in the end a simple diagram of prop vorticity in a turn gave the answer..

(N24 stretched fuse) + (2 x same prop rotation) + (higher power) + (critical up elevator) = fuselage power induced vortex = differential tailplane incidence = half tailplane stall or some level of separation = sudden reduction in stick force.

 

What do think..

 

 

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