FlyingVizsla Posted April 3, 2024 Posted April 3, 2024 Amphibious gyrocopter crashes on Lake Macquarie, two passengers escape injury - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU Two men have escaped injury after the boat-helicopter hybrid overturned during a take-off attempt on Lake Macquarie.
onetrack Posted April 3, 2024 Posted April 3, 2024 Well, I wonder what Plan B is? - seeing as Plan A ended in disaster?
spacesailor Posted April 3, 2024 Posted April 3, 2024 Only takes a ' half floating beer bottle ' to punch a hole through even thick laminated frp . As happened, to " Fallacy " in the Hawksbury River race '' . How did they know what it was ! . It came inside the boat . spacesailor 2
Blueadventures Posted April 3, 2024 Posted April 3, 2024 On 03/04/2024 at 8:22 AM, spacesailor said: Only takes a ' half floating beer bottle ' to punch a hole through even thick laminated frp . As happened, to " Fallacy " in the Hawksbury River race '' . How did they know what it was ! . It came inside the boat . spacesailor Expand The straight lateral material edge is interesting as could be a developed accumulated fatigue stress that let go during the landing and opened up on take-off, just a guess from a poor image view. 1
turboplanner Posted April 3, 2024 Posted April 3, 2024 On 03/04/2024 at 10:37 PM, Blueadventures said: The straight lateral material edge is interesting as could be a developed accumulated fatigue stress that let go during the landing and opened up on take-off, just a guess from a poor image view. Expand Yes, should have been jagged
BrendAn Posted April 4, 2024 Posted April 4, 2024 (edited) pretty sure its this machine. built by tag aviation in canberra. passenger is describing how long the log he saw was. Edited April 4, 2024 by BrendAn 1 1
BrendAn Posted April 5, 2024 Posted April 5, 2024 On 04/04/2024 at 11:55 PM, facthunter said: Looks like a blue ringed Octopus. Nev Expand It does too now that mention it.
IBob Posted April 5, 2024 Posted April 5, 2024 (edited) I wonder if the problem could be inadequate strength/bracing in the float? We once had a f/glass canadian canoe. Heading for home in failing weather after a week on a big lake, I accepted a tow from a power boat. While there was little in the canoe (just me), when the canoe got onto the wave from the boat, the bottom went flat then dinged in sharply. And while it didn't break or tear, as I recall there were stress marks where this may have happened before. Edited April 5, 2024 by IBob
Blueadventures Posted April 5, 2024 Posted April 5, 2024 On 05/04/2024 at 5:06 AM, IBob said: I wonder if the problem could be inadequate strength/bracing in the float? We once had a f/glass canadian canoe. Heading for home in failing weather after a week on a big lake, I accepted a tow from a power boat. While there was little in the canoe (just me), when the canoe got onto the wave from the boat, the bottom went flat then dinged in sharply. And while it didn't break or tear, as I recall there were stress marks where this may have happened before. Expand Agree; similar o my 8:37 yesterday comment as I have seen such before; however a poor image for assessing though.
BrendAn Posted April 5, 2024 Posted April 5, 2024 They look like full lotus floats . They have been around for years and have a good reputation. 1
facthunter Posted April 5, 2024 Posted April 5, 2024 WHAT they are fitted to must have some relevance? Dual floats can have very assymetric drag causing directional problems. Need strong rudder inputs. Nev 1 1
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