M61A1

Tail draggers don't have that problem.

Does anybody who knew Terry Kronks Mustang, know what type of engine was installed in the airframe ?

I have to laugh at CAMITS spiel about quality. We produce quality products under AS/NZS ASO 9001:2008 blah blah "Guarantees to delivery first class quality products. Not always, as it seems.

Hi from. WAI am a farmer who wants to learn to fly in the Midwest of WA. Any suggestions for a good all round aircraft for use on farm and for leisure?

 

Kimbo

If Capral bought out AS&S I can tell you from experience that they won't sell you anything if you tell them you're building an airplane.

Just a question to builders in South East Qld, where do you source your square and round aircraft grade (6061-T6) aluminium tubing from? It seems Performance metals and Airport metals are mentioned most frequently, but is there a local supplier, or do you just get it shipped up?

Wouldnt have happen back in my RAAF days. In my day there wasnt many females in the services. Well, I should say there wasnt many good looking ones :peepwall: . With the concept of a 50/50 male female ratio.The ugly females wont have much chance in pulling a bloke.In the Gay Disco , sailors can listen to the Village People's Greatest Hits. It will get the sailors into the mood for a little bromance.

My main concern is that somebody in the Government may read this press release and actually try & implement some of these ideas.

From an email a while back-

To LtCol Ventura,

Sir, I am DJ Baker and I would appreciate it if you could tell me what it takes to be an F-16 fighter pilot of the USAF. What classes should I take in high school to help the career I want to take later in my life. What could I do to get in the academy.

Sincerely

DJ Baker

-----End of Original Message-----

Subject: FW: Anybody want to help this poor kid from Cyberspace?

From: Lt Col Ventura

Dear DJ,

Obviously, through no fault of your own, your young, impressionable brain has been poisoned by the superfluous, hyped-up, "Top Gun" media portrayal of fighter pilots. Unfortunately, this portrayal could not be further from the truth. In my experience, I've found most fighter pilots pompous, back-stabbing, momma's boys with inferiority complexes, as well as being extremely over-rated aeronautically. However, rather than dash your budding dreams of becoming a USAF pilot, I offer the following alternative.

What you REALLY want to aspire to is the exciting, challenging, and rewarding world of TACTICAL AIRLIFT.

And this, young DJ, means one thing - the venerable, workhorse C-130! I can guarantee no fighter pilot can brag that he has led a 12-ship formation down a valley at 300 ft above the ground, while trying to interpret a 9-line to a new DZ, avoiding pop-up threats, and coordinating with AWACS, all while eating a box lunch, with the engineer in the back taking a leak and the navigator puking in his trash can!

I tell you, DJ, TAC Airlift is where it's at. Where else is it legal to throw tanks, HMMWVs, and other crap out the back of an airplane, and not even worry about it when the chute doesn't open and it torpedos the General's staff car! No where else can you land on a 3,000' dirt strip, kick a bunch of ammo and stuff off the ramp without even stopping, then take off again before range control can call to tell you you've landed on the wrong LZ!

And talk about exotic travel-when C-130s go somewhere, they GO somewhere (usually for 3 months, unfortunately). This gives you the opportunity to immerse yourself in the culture enough to give any local population a bad taste in their mouths, not something those strat-lift pilots can do from their airport hotel rooms!

As far as recommendations for your course of study, I offer these. Take a lot of math courses. You will need all the advanced math skills you can muster to facilitate the calculation of per diem rates around the world, and when trying to split up the crew's bar tab so that the co-pilot really believes he owes 85% of the whole thing.

Health sciences are important, too. You will need a thorough knowledge of biology to make those educated guesses of how much longer you can drink beer before the tremendous case of the trots catches up to you from that meal you ate at that place that had the belly dancers in some God-forsaken foreign country whose name you can't even pronounce!

Social studies are also beneficial. It is important for a good TAC Airlifter to have the cultural knowledge to be able to ascertain the exact location of the nearest titty bar in any country in the world, then be able to convince the local authorities to release the loadmaster after he offends every sensibility of the local religion and culture.

A foreign language is helpful, but not required. You will never be able to pronounce the names of the NAVAIDs in France, and it's much easier to ignore them and go where you want to anyway.

A study of geography is also paramount. You will need to know the basic location of all the places you've been when you get back from your TDY and are ready to stick those little pins in that huge world map you've got taped to you living room wall, right next to that gigantic wooden giraffe statue and beer stein collection.

Well, DJ, I hope this little note inspires you. And by the way, forget about that Academy thing. All TAC Airlifters know that there are waaay too few women and too little alcohol there to provide a well-balanced education.

A nice, big state college would be a much better choice.

Good luck and see you on the SKE scope!

The Xcom 760 is the one I use with that exact system. I wired in a GME3100 it is the tiny 5watt UHF that is cheap and it weighs only a couple of hundred grams and is the size of a 25 pack of cigarettes. You have a switch that selects which one you transmit on but both audios are always heard and the airband always takes priority. The main issue is forgetting to flick the switch back to air band. I am thinking of making a timer to autoswitch the airband back onto the main transmit after a time delay. Its not hard to do could even make a adjustable timer to do it. The Xcom has a inbuilt intercom and so does the microair. I selected the Xcom after a lot of research and have been extremely pleased with it. It has never missed a beat. I had it running in my workshop here for 6 months 24hrs a day before I installed it into the savannah.Mark

This is exactly what Reg puts in the Savannah s for farmers. It is a harness off the shelf that connects the xcom 760 to a tiny electrophone Uhf and an intercom. Only short coming is that you can not transmit on the UHF using the pax PTT switch, not sure about the VHF, never tried. Also can't hear UHF when the VHF is recieving because it takes priority, as it should.

I'm a do it myself type of person. What I want is a comms system that I can select to transmit either vhf or uhf, but listen to both all the time ( and/or maybe select one or the other). A 2 place intercom option incorporated wouldn't hurt either, so I can put one in my drifter when it's finished. I would like to make this from off the shelf components.

So does anyone have any circuit diagrams for such a device that they are willing to share?

Careful boink, there's a live case going, and no information that the Coroner's report has any bearing on the case, or conclusions about the ground.

Yep still have the plane :-)Had long previously parted with boat and helicopter. More recently parted with wife But still have managed to hang onto the Jabiru. (but not much else)

Sapphire - doesn't seem to be much sanity left though :-(

Even for aircraft that don't have a TX light, it's a fairly easy matter to set one up. It might require replacing the Single Pole Single Throw PTT switch with a Double Pole Single Throw switch. The extra pole of the switch can then be used to control a light mounted on the IP.

I generally find that I'm a keyboard and mouse kind of guy when it comes to aircraft simulators, using the keyboard for functions such as rudder, throttle position and flap / gear / weapon settings.Unless you're getting feedback from a stick its really hard to see why you'd want one in the virtual world.

 

Keep it simple.

 

Now, back to my 1500hp Yakovlev over the skies of Europe...

 

- boingk

I have these from a fly in... don't know whose aircraft, maybe of use. I would recommend (although the factory didn't do it) using a good quality epoxy primer on both the doubler and fuselage, and maybe some sealant in between for good measure. I am in the process of rebuilding a drifter, and everywhere there is stainless or steel against aluminium, there was dissimilar metal corrosion.

Thanks, but I'm more interested in the cost once I've purchased the aircraft. Ball park is good, $2000? $4000? $6000? Per year?

The other side of the coin is $100k for an aircraft + truckloads of insurance, hangarage & maintenance. If the $500 a month mentione previously is acceptable to you, all good, if not, educate yourself, you'd be surprised just how cheaply you can fly if you're willing to do stuff yourself.

So why do they say; you fall in love with someone, and in doing so can be high as a kite... oh the conundrums of life.

“All of a sudden, we have a speedometer,” (Jeb Corliss) said. “It will change and revolutionize wingsuit flying and sky diving in general.”

Read more at

 

 

 

http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/18/recon-instruments-launches-heads-up-display-for-thrill-seeking-wingsuit-flyers/#WEGImKVjp2XrksUY.99

Aeroplanes and Yachts are designed to relieve you of all your money,( and then some). Some women do that too. Nev

One suggested alternative which some have gone to over here, are the blue colored suspension rubbers sourced from automotive suspension shops, and now some auto parts stores. They seem to be as good, or better as an alternative to the original set up, and the blue ones (not the yellow ones) are lasting quite well for the low price......................Maj...

Yep but no background available anyone had one of these for 8/9 years from new and still working

Mach is a relative term. It is the ratio of air speed to the local speed of sound. So if you can do mach 1 at 10,000', then you should be able to do it at sea level.Unless the humidity comes into play (as stated earlier). That might be the reason I guess. More humidity at sea level, less compressibility because the Oxygen and Nitrogen molecules of the air are replaced by lighter water molecules.

That was Wiki says anyway. I don't mind citing Wiki. Of course, I never finished school.

www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/airplane/sound.html

I already know the wind direction by the time I'm overhead Fremantle, either by other aircraft in the CTAF or the wind sock at Azure Helicopters on Rous Head. Plus if you look at all the merchant ships at anchor then that will also give you a pretty good idea of wind direction. Failing all of that, you've always got that wind turbine on the island, it sticks out like a sore thumb!This was yesterday

 

"If you fly a single engine helicopter over water for for a length of time, sooner or later you are going to get wet".

I think it was related to HUETs training.