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  1. kasper
    The French did a radial engines storch... I’ll look for it
  2. kasper
    Welcome.
  3. kasper
    Well done. A touch more modern than the Supermarine walrus I was read up on when I stumbled across it
  4. kasper
    Ok. #630 remain open and without any guesses. You have till tomorrow to guess and then I’ll reveal.
  5. kasper
    Yep. That one.
  6. kasper
    Don’t care. Nose on the ground and air under one of the mains. That doesn’t happen if you’re flying at all correctly.
  7. kasper
    No idea but the pilot gets a big F for flying skills - nose wheel first is unforgivable
  8. kasper
    Not P&M. But it’s got associations with Brian Milton so I’d run and run fast in the other direction.
  9. kasper
    Strangely the video of the model at the top of this thread clearly uses pendulum stability for roll stability and a rear rudder for direction. So I’d disagree
  10. kasper
    It looks like a P&M quik trike with a rotor in place of the flex wing. And I’d hazard a guess as targeting the aging trike pilot market who find handling the heavy wings of a trike and who may find it easier to train on a TRIKE controlled rotor system ... it’s got the A frame of actrike and from what I see it’s rigged the same as a trike
  11. kasper
    Needs higher mast to give more pendulum stability.
  12. kasper
    Great to see again the level of reporting supported by a pic of a USA registered aircraft of entirely different manufacture. Do they actually believe the average reader does not know at least in general what aircraft looks like and requires a pic to inform them what they are?
  13. kasper
    I love the look and a single seater with 4,140hp!!!! Oh to have that at your finger tips.
  14. kasper
    Beautiful aircraft but look at what 8 years and a war does to an aircraft with the same role - and an equally beautiful airframe to look at.
  15. kasper
    No such animal as what? There are weightshift 95.10 but a weightshift Hummel would be unique.
  16. kasper
    If you’ve got enough wing for 30kg/m^2 at mtow you’re able to reg 95.10.Must say the look of a Hummel with a flex wing over the to would be interesting. If you want some thoughts on how to run controls from the stick up to the wing pm me. I’d love to see it all put together.
  17. kasper
    Simple answer is the rules changed and only those already registered get to keep rego under a grandfathered registration. Same reason there are factory built 95.10 registered aircraft that all were on the register before the change to remove the factory build option.In both cases there are alternate routes to registration. Home built not within 95.10 have 95.55 andctes there was a gap in the early 1990’s when you had no option but for the past 20 years 95.55 has been there and ANY Hummelbird completed could have been registered for any and all of those 20 years. I can understand the frustration and anger at being told the wrong thing more than 20 years ago and losing a rego fee but sorry I can’t sympathise with anyone refusing to register an aircraft for more than 20 years just because the rules might change. If you still have the aircraft and want it register it and enjoy it.
  18. kasper
    Or - as has been said many times - go 95.55 which will leave you all with an RAAus registered ultralightYes errors of the past on wing load on 95.10 but to be fair that requirement was introduced 28 years ago so it’s not exactly the current RAAus tech or management fault. Talk to tech. Office. 95.55 is absolutely available to hummelbirds
  19. kasper
    Yes. But 1.4L per minute will be such good minutes ... andvthwts at full throttle ... once you get to circuit height it’s down to only 1L per minute ... I’ll take 25minutes please
  20. kasper
    Ok. The atj 250 are new and quite pricey. The ATJ220SV are under $4,300 each delivered with gst paid ready to install with all controllers.One thing to be very careful of - because RAAus and/or CASA will start patrolling it is that you cannot register a new 95.10 that came from a kit unless that kit is an approved kit ... and there are no approved kits. So if you’re looking to do a bit of getting around you are really limited to buying an existing 95.10 airframe and modifying it or designing and building from scratch. And 95.10 if fully enforced would even see minimaxes and other plans built refused rego because they are not approved plans. 95.10 is for self design and self build for all new registrations. Be very causious of trying to tap dance around it with anything that comes from a factory because If CASA audit the 95.10 register there are quite a few that would fall into cancelled registration and needing to move to 95.55 ... and you can’t take a jet or multi engines airframe into that register. .
  21. kasper
    To be 100% complete you could be mad enough to put them on a 95.32 home built weightshift ... but seeing as they generally cruise in the 60-65kn range you really would be burning a heap of kero and making a noise for no great effect
  22. kasper
    I guess much smaller versions than even the 250N ones ... cri cri flies on twin 12-15hp ... 245N is similar in total thrust to around 30hp
  23. kasper
    No - if you used a sapphire not particularly fast - probably only around the 100kt mark. But if you went for a flying wing new build and went for something along the lines of a Jetcat 550N Single Or a couple of much cheaper engines in the 240-250N range like the ATJ 250SV In any event the cost of the jetcat pays for 3 of the ATJs but still cost less than a 912 80hp even before you buy the prop
  24. kasper
    Or build it yourself and keep it under 300kg and 95.10 is fine. It’s the only class of ultralight in Australia that allows both multi engine and turbines so either find yourself an old 95.10 sapphire - several available for around $8k - and grab a couple of big model jets - many available around the $6k each - and for less than the cost of a good drifter yours burning kero at a prodigious rate and making phenomenal noise.
  25. kasper
    Slip a pod over the front and you’ve got basically the same as a drifter on the front of that one. Except stringer for the nose leg
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