Small plane missing Victoria 18/09/22

[kgwilson]

That was quick. Absent for 24 hours & it's now a motorbike forum.

[BrendAn]

6 minutes ago, kgwilson said:

That was quick. Absent for 24 hours & it's now a motorbike forum.

I was wondering how long before that came up. I did say the Honda motor would be a good aircraft engine😁

[jackc]

3 hours ago, Litespeed said:

Wow, a HP 2 dirt squirt.

 

A hyperbike for the road/dirt.

 

Amazing machine and peerless.

 

Pity you sold it.

I would not be alive IF I kept it, way past my capability now…..World’s fastest road registerable  enduro machine of its day. I also bought the Super Motard Wheel set for it, too.

Top speed capability? I won’t mention 🤩

 

https://youtu.be/hvVMX-QfvTY?si=J66Oi33j4egx4wxp

[jackc]

It’s often said that you start small and work up…..Worlds only bike you can double its top speed with factory parts, been there done that.

 

[jackc]

32 minutes ago, kgwilson said:

That was quick. Absent for 24 hours & it's now a motorbike forum.

Well, the HP2 motor would go well in an aircraft, 1200 GS motor, with no balance shaft, some good race bits and factory blue printed and dyno’ed. Torque? Heaps 🤩

 

[BrendAn]

6 minutes ago, jackc said:

Well, the HP2 motor would go well in an aircraft, 1200 GS motor, with no balance shaft, some good race bits and factory blue printed and dyno’ed. Torque? Heaps 🤩

 

You can buy a kit to fit a BMW r100 to an xair. There are 9 flying in the UK ATM and going very well.

[Thruster88]

In perfect VFR conditions with no mountains within a couple of hundred miles I once flew a Thruster T500 powered by a BMW 800 boxer coupled to a rotax C gearbox. Similar performance to a 582.

[spenaroo]

fair enough, with moving the motorcycle talk off this thread

 

I have resurrected the bike thread

 

https://www.socialaustralia.com.au/topic/1202-the-bike-shed/page/4/