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A Better Motor Is the First Step Towards Electric Planes
Litespeed replied to onetrack's topic in Aircraft General Discussion
Electric engines certainly are a very bright future for transporting us feeble humans. They are also damn fast and have huge torque. Friends laughed 20 years ago when I said man will fly electric and their use in cars would be common in 20 years. It was obvious when you understand the technology. -
The need for food etc at home is irrelevant. It is the idea of moving such a massive climate controlled moving city across the plant for a tiny human weight fraction. It is a incredibly wasteful way to travel.
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If comparing the ship to aircraft, it depends on what we measure. If it is passengers then the plane will always win. Why? The ship is 99.99% not passengers by weight, it carries a massive bulk just for luxury, staff, food, grog, entertainment, pools, casinos. It is incredibly inefficient, however if it is airfrieght vs a cargo ship the opposite is true.
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I have seen one with a rotax and radial cowl on web, looked great and apparently a lot faster. A 582 would be the go I think or a verner twin or the triple.
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My money is on it been hit by Russian rebels with something. Damage is bit too specific on rudder also burn damage on other rudder and in front on rudder by looks of it along the fuselage. I reckon some damage from a missile, where it explodes in proximity. They are a tough bird , the missile was possibly a partial dud. I reckon damaged undercarriage as well. Hence landed off field in snow to not stuff up the runway. Things are pretty hot in Ukraine since Putin went on ego trip and he knows Trump will do nothing but kiss his arse.
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It has a very large chunk of the left rudder missing. Curious
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What about the poor who don't have a spare two hundred?
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Bit crap that a diet from CSIRO which is owned by us charges for a diet that helps reduce health costs to the nation. Typical neo capitalist crud.
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True, but you have to get the bugger started and that is a risk, that I like to avoid.
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They are not toy jets...………………………………………..they are for roasting marshmallows. That's why the canopy opens from a rear hinge, so you can reach.
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Don't forget that," Jesus Christ superstar, burned around the corners on his Yamaha, the cops where there but he didn't care". We sung that at school, so motorbikes are ancient
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Ah the golden old days if my fading youth,.......... I would happily give a kidney( someone else's as I only have two half ones) to have my r100cs (worked) and mk3 guzzi le mans back in the man cave. I kick myself daily for ever selling them.
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French cars rock end of story- as long as they are made in France. A lot of seventies ones sold here were made CKD as kits in the same factory as horrid Toyotas, leylands etc. Had quite a few awesome 504 pugs and a crap aussie made one (better than any ford, holden etc but not a French made one). Also had a reggie 12 and bro has a citroen c5 wagon, absolutely awesome wagon.
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Don't know of any here in Aus. But and here is the big but- they have a design flaw in how the loads are transmitted around the pilot esp in a crash. Have a read on homebuilt airplanes forum- lots of discussion about it on there. Have a look at the Texas parasol while your at it, probably a much better design and lots flying
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But at the price of a carbon cub? Damn those are expensive. Ole could build two aircraft for you and a heap of change
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Helicopter down at Lethbridge this morning
Litespeed replied to Nico13's topic in Aircraft Incidents and Accidents
One of my instructors was a nice bloke called George, he was a F111 instructor and then a Blackhawk instructor- a very very top notch pilot. After leaving the services he became a lowly GA instructor and loved it, he finally had time to enjoy his job, look at scenery and unpucker his spincter. -
Helicopter down at Lethbridge this morning
Litespeed replied to Nico13's topic in Aircraft Incidents and Accidents
One of my instructors was a nice bloke called George, he was a F111 instructor and then a Blackhawk instructor- a very very top notch pilot. After leaving the services he became a lowly GA instructor and loved it, he finally had time to enjoy his job, look at scenery and unpucker his spincter. -
Regarding failure of the 'A' pillars that is at extreme g loading in a crash and greatly reduces the G load into the pilot cabin and that can be a life saver. Similar to modern cars crumple zones, the best design will crush/disgard structure to take up g Loads and save the pilot. Humans are very poor at absorbing big g loads.
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Yes the SF1 is a cool little beasty. I picked that photo because I love the plane and the pilot is a doppelganger of me- minus my grey hair. There are lots of threads re the Jabiru motor etc on the site, have a read. But keep in mind some posters are very biased for or against a Jabiru, irrespective of the actual facts. Shock cooling/icing is a issue in any carb engine, and yes the ultimate solution is a modern injection system and rotec heads. Modern ceramic coatings are also worthy additions. And such a motor would still be cheaper than a rotax.
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Adding injection makes a Jabiru 6 purr like a pussykat
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The vast majority of problems with Jabiru engines are poor maintenance, not running at correct revs and a bad rep that is generally completely undeserved. In flight stoppage is extremely rare, if it has fuel and spark they keep running. CASA claimed lack of fuel in the tank as a engine failure. As far as tbo goes even if they are rebuilt at 50% tbo it is still cheaper than a rotax which is a basic replace everything bar the cases overhaul. If your worried about failure do the island hop route to Tassie.
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Yes, I always worry about anything I buy from the USA, some are in metric and some are still not. Does not help with trade, but as soon as their economy picks up some orangutan starts a trade war, points a gun to the head of its friends and invites a burgular over for dinner.
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Yes, Nev- Ole Hartman at AAK makes awesome aircraft. Tough as iron bark and can land where you would normally rip off the undercarriage.
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Hey Jethro, If your looking for a tough as nails, easy to fly but not bus like aircraft with exceptional crash survivability, then a local product is what you want. It is called a Jabiru, can be kit or factory built. Lots on market and cheap compared to any imports. If you absolutely have to impact the ground or a tree or a riverbank etc- it is the machine. It is easy to kill yourself or get mangled in any aircraft. But history has proven you have to try real hard in a jabiru, the cabin structure is amazingly tough and absorbs a lot of forces instead of transferring it to the pilot. Manage your engine well, maintain it well, keep fuel in the tanks and fly to its envelope. If it all goes really wrong- there is nothing I would rather be in. Physics is a cruel mistress but a Jabiru can be a fairy godmother. The only fatalities I know of where A flight into a mountainside - cumulus granite. Wings torn off in a very powerful storm cloud in Europe. A nose first vertical into the ground after stalling. All were pilot error and generally non survivable in anything with wings. I would always trust one. Litespeed
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Fair enough Bex, but for a light aircraft it seems like a solution looking for a problem.
