Student Pilot

80% there and 90% to go 🤣 The details take a lot of time to finish a build.

They were called "conventional" gear, you didn't have to be a hairy chested sky god to fly one 😜

Nearly as efficient as the Americans with Iranian flight 655, they had to use two missiles to down the Airbus with 290 souls on board.

Where did you get those statistics? 90%?

I have some old pics of this machine I took with a box Brownie, it visited Armidale. An impressive machine up close. In the olden days you could walk up to any machine parked at any airfield and have a close look and have a yarn to the pilot.

Gerard L

Yappa's aircraft?

Been watching too much forged in fire? 😁 That will only make them brittle Spaceman, cold resetting/recurving or low temp tempering (going on a straw or light blue colour) is the answer.

"Relatively cheap" 😁 Depends on your circumstance's I suppose, 150k+ (some spend 100k just on the panel and avionics) is not my idea of cheap.

It's hard enough to fly a level formation with different aircraft, they make formation aerobatics look easy...........it's not!

Floats are draggy but seem to still function ok. Take an aircraft like the Beaver, the float load is not much different to the wheel load. Or a Fireboss, they work from both land and water admittedly with a reduced load but power overcomes most problems.

They were probably the ones who resurfaced the runway, cheapest quote always wins. That really works out well, look at the state of the roads, new road laid and the first potholes appear within a week.

Great pic, the Thrusters never seemed to get much praise but a good solid aircraft.

You wouldn't say that about a Drom if you flew one 😉 Yes, the bloke who owned the PA20-22 thought it a good idea to convert it. I have to admit it made a very pretty aircraft but...... Virtually no difference in performance or weight and no difference in short field ability. All sorts of claims by the STC sellers and those who want to brag but they are all wrong. It does make a very pretty aircraft though.