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  1. Marty_d
    Good stuff Christin... glad to see you build by "die book"! 😆
  2. Marty_d
    Wow, people still do control line? I tried that when I was 14. Spent more time trying to adjust the needle valve than I did flying. Just ordered an electric powered glider kit from Ali express, I reckon I can fly it from the neighbours property up the road. Laser cut balsa, none of this polystyrene stuff.
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    Nylocs on the outer bolts, but the bolts that go to the prop flange go into press fit round nuts and are drilled head.
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    On with the Bolly! Not final fit, not torqued up and not pitched. (Definitely not lock wired!). Just to allow me to manually turn the motor, since I installed the round nuts my old wooden plank "prop" won't fit. 230mm (9") clearance to ground.
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    Second flaperon on yesterday. Still have to adjust the fuselage slots a little to allow for full up/down with and without flap.
  6. Marty_d
    Interesting article (fairly light weight). https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/09/australian-kestrels-may-hold-the-key-to-helping-drones-hover Obviously the weight and complexity of wing morphing is currently out of reach of full size aircraft, but possible for drones.
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    Martin Mars and Piper Cub

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    Martin Mars and Piper Cub
    Nice video of a Mars doing a flight test. Interestingly, single tail instead of twin tails like the one shown above. Impressive beast on the water!
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    Martin Mars and Piper Cub

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    Martin Mars and Piper Cub
    So... Is a pilot who touches down successfully called a "Mars Lander"?
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    elvis's jetstar motorhome

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    elvis's jetstar motorhome
    Probably has to get 10,000 people through it to break even.
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    elvis's jetstar motorhome

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    elvis's jetstar motorhome
    Tight cornering wouldn't be too easy with that massive front overhang. I probably would have dispensed with that separate chromed chassis and incorporated it into the lower part of the fuse, with front wheels out with their own mudguards and the back wheels in the wing stubs.
  11. Marty_d
    "Lateral drive shaft" is mentioned.
  12. Marty_d
    Interesting design. Guessing that the lack of tail rotor is because the side motors are used to balance out rotational forces from the main rotor - in which case you could only ever stop one side motor (and the same side too).
  13. Marty_d
    Been a while since I had a day on the plane. Today I riveted the end cap and pivot/horn plate on the starboard flaperon, riveted the pivot pin on, sleeved the rod end for the AN5-10 bolt on the bellcrank and cut the slot in the fuselage. I seem to have lost the nuts for the ball ends so will have to source those, but it moves up and down (the right way) which is a good start 🙂
  14. Marty_d
    CASA legislation may not differentiate, but I would HOPE laws around firearms and whether you're shooting at a person or a microchip would. Otherwise it's like saying that someone shooting randomly at cars on a freeway is the same as someone shooting a model car.
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    That doesn't ring right to me. If you're shooting at an aircraft you're aiming at a person, ie attempted murder or at least reckless endangerment or something. Ain't no humans in drones (yet).
  16. Marty_d
    I notice they still have the operational ones (F15/F35) roped off.
  17. Marty_d
    Definitely NOT boring. I could look at your wooden props all day, they are works of art.
  18. Marty_d
    Never seen a wing with so many fences on it before.
  19. Marty_d
    Why did they recover the dead horse? Did they have pies?
  20. Marty_d
    I was born in 1972. Looking at the 4 Aeroflot crashes, I'd hazard a guess that removing vodka from the cockpit may have helped.
  21. Marty_d
    Like the Waterford crystal factory in Ireland (I lived in County Waterford for a while). If you do the factory tour they show you people blowing glass, then you go to another room where you stand behind a rope curtain and watch half a dozen skilled workers painstakingly cutting the grooves into the crystal glasses by hand. Then you kind of think... hold on, how many sets of glasses do they sell each day worldwide? And we're supposed to believe that 3 glass-blowers and 6 people with Dremels are supplying that...?
  22. Marty_d
    Looks like a Lego plane.
  23. Marty_d
    If you're talking about the multi-strand steel cable barriers threaded through steel posts, they're more like cheese graters for motorcyclists.
  24. Marty_d
    Ummm... Why didn't one of them drive? Surely they weren't drinking...
  25. Marty_d
    It also said "Rotors: 3 blades each" while in the top pics at least, my Mk.1 eyeball clearly tells me there's 2 blades each. Bottom one shows 3 blades and a different rego / colour scheme - so they made at least 2.
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