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  1. rgmwa
    If you’re near an airport have a talk to the flight schools or FBO staff. They will be able to answer a lot of your questions.
  2. rgmwa
    Round trip from where to where? More to the point, why buy a plane with all the associated hangar and maintenance costs when it would be cheaper and easier to hire a plane and pilot when you needed to. Also, this is primarily an Australian site and assume you are wanting to fly in the USA?
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    He may have to settle for gold spray paint if he wants to go joyriding before he gets dumped from the White House.
  4. rgmwa
    Nice!
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    Impressive aircraft. Very sleek design and a top speed of over 400 kts is very fast for the time.
  6. rgmwa
    If they are pushing on with the RV-15 development I assume that's a sign they are on the road to financial recovery.
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    Can’t do any harm if your tiedowns are a bit dodgy.
  8. rgmwa
    One trick I've heard about but haven't tried is to lay thick rope along the wing to break up the airflow and the lift. Sounds plausible.
  9. rgmwa
    Just came across this interesting old video. Not sure if it's the same as the one in the original post that has been removed.
  10. rgmwa
    Thanks. Didn't know about the re-registration. His last aircraft, a Dyn-Aero MCR-01VLA (VH-SIP) was unfortunately involved in a fatal accident at Serpentine in 2020 after a partial power loss.
  11. rgmwa
    John and Marguerite Chesbrough flew London to Sydney via Perth in Mooney N6201D in 1982/83. They started in Houston originally and crossed the Atlantic to North Africa and Europe before that. John was a member of SABC at Serpentine until he passed away a few years ago. They wrote a book about their journeys called `By Compass and by Consolan'. Consolan was a long range radio navigation system similar to the beam systems the Germans used during the war. The Chesbroughs used it to navigate across the Atlantic. /../../favicon.ico Consolan - What Is It?, March 1961 Radio-Electronics - RF Cafe WWW.RFCAFE.COM During World War II, the Germans developed another kind of radio directional broadcast system called "Sonne," their word for "sun," because of the radial antenna pattern it generated (see plots)
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    Ah, yes, Alan Bond. Shared a lift with him once when he had an office on the top floor of our building. Was also was fortunate enough to set up Australia II for display (and all the other exhibits including Jon Sander's yacht Parry Endeavour) at the WA Maritime Museum. Interesting times, but well in the past now.
  13. rgmwa
    If it was my choice I’d prefer something with floats but unfortunately you’ve got to work with what you’ve got. He did pretty well in the circumstances.
  14. rgmwa
    Losing one life is bad enough but losing three is a tragedy under any circumstances. That’s one reason I generally prefer to fly alone, especially if the passenger is a trusting non-pilot who is relying on your skill and your aircraft to get them home safely.
  15. rgmwa
    Well equipped instrument panel. Not the typical RV12 setup.
  16. rgmwa
    A bit long-winded but what an achievement.
  17. rgmwa
    I got mine from Liquid Containment in Qld.
  18. rgmwa
    Completely full would be OK because the liquid won't expand. When partially full, I just squeeze the bladder a bit before putting the cap on to reduce the volume of air in it. Even without doing that, I'm quite confident the bladder would easily handle any pressure differential at the altitudes we fly, and probably a lot higher. I can recall seeing a video of a full bladder being drop tested onto concrete from something like 30m from memory, so they are pretty tough.
  19. rgmwa
    I have two of the foldable bladders and have carried fuel in the plane but don’t like doing that. In my experience they can leak if the threads on the cap are dry. I didn’t have a problem after I put some lube (Inox) on them, but I only use them now to carry fuel to the plane. They are great for that because they pack away easily. I would use them to carry fuel in the plane if I had no other option. Because they are flexible, they can cope with air pressure fluctuations. I wouldn’t carry fuel in a plastic jerrycan in the cabin.
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    Makes sense.
  21. rgmwa
    Practising ground loops?
  22. rgmwa
    I get mine pre-pasted from Bert Floods as well. NGK is good enough for me.
  23. rgmwa
    ... and a jet truck cranking out 36,000 tons of horsepower?? Confusing but sounds impressive!
  24. rgmwa
    Removing the wings is quick but re-installing them is a lot slower and is a two-person job because the tolerances for the two retaining pins are very tight. Using a pipe expander is the best way to align them and pull them up tight against the pressure created by the wing root seals. I would not trailer an RV-12.
  25. rgmwa
    An autopilot is great for long trips, however as the turbulence gets worse the autopilot wants to fight the plane by trying to hold altitude and heading, so you are often better off hand flying if it gets rough. Hand flying long distances is tiring though.
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