gareth lacey

Looks like skeet!!

It came with a job lot i got from a guy selling aitcrafy stuff probanly sceet i will take pic in the morning and send it to you

Hi Skip, i have some about a mtre long its black with a wire outsde 50mm its yoursif you can use it Cheers Gareth

His wife passed ,this would be a big hit for him, i think his daughter lives in Germany and was gong to live there?

Sadly Ray passed away and i heard all the equip tools etc have gone to the tip

Get the class 5 ga self declared medical easy to get if no medical problems

Here is the prop from Ukraine for my build/ engine full carbon fibre with ss edge protection

Based on a RV6a but slightly wider and different wing profile

My build so far has cost me 25 k prop is ordered another 2 k landed from ukraine engine being rebuilt atm so all in all about 35 k for a brand new aircraft my labour is not counted what else do you do when retired but keep busy

Hi all you WA aviators ,i will be visiting Albany 23,24 april anyone want to catch up for coffee and talk all things aircraft

Wings are similair to rv6 hershey bar style with 75 litres in each d box tanks are constructed of fibreglass ,wider than a rv 1200mm shoulder to shoulder plenty of rudder authority slider canopy and longer by 300mm, 165 hp engine ,so slightly rv ish but with my own differences

No i am using1.6 mandrel bends and cutting of holes in tube easy to weld and a small muffler all ms i dont have tig gear any more so ss tig is out i recently welded a new pipe on a 40 year ol ms pipe on a 172 so ms does and can last for many years,it will last me anyway

I am a bit of a loner myself on my build but do ask a lot questions of others if i dont know also did a lot of research on this build i prefer to work alone but i do have experienced people to ask (builders of homebuilt) i come from a background in fabrication and sheetmetal so can and have applied my experience to my build i am about to fabricate my exhaust headers pipes for my engine

I built my fuselage frames on a 1.2x5.0 table no jig but when I joined the frames I did use a pre made timber frame to get it aligned , and as my aircraft is scratch built it's mostly made up as I go forward just a general plan in my head here are 2 pics