Marty_d

Looks like some pretty serious shading on the top of the canopy. Guess the A/C helps too.

Isn't this a Jetski?

Early teenagers fancy anything vaguely female with a pulse. Well who wouldn't?

Plus I think that bike had about 30 gears. Still one of my favourite movies ever though.

I remember one Nicholas Cage movie - "Face/Off" I think it was - where he's taxiing an executive jet and turns it by turning the control yoke.

Although mine's a 701, it's scratch built and I use a lot of Sav parts. My fuse came as part of the wiring harness with a set of Sav instruments (the bloke selling them had a kit but wanted a glass cockpit). So for some reason Savannah has changed the fuse from having one wire coming off that side to three. I think I'll do the same as you and use one for the resistor, if that's how it's meant to be wired.

Never hire a signwriter who remembers what a prick you were in high school!

I made the mistake of watching "Wonder Woman 1984" the other night. Not that Gal Gadot dressing in a very short skirt and very aptly-named breastplate is a bad thing, but even her charms couldn't make up for 2.5 hours of very weak plot and lacklustre action scenes. The film reached its nadir when it came to the aviation bit. So Wonder Woman and her resurrected boyfriend, who was a pilot in World War I - yes, ONE, he died during WWI in the last movie... need to get from Washington DC to Cairo, Egypt. Naturally, instead of booking a couple of first class tickets, they use her access to the Smithsonian, go through the Air & Space museum to an airstrip, where a Panavia Tornado is sitting on the tarmac. I'm going to have to list the following problems in dot point. The boyfriend who just woke up in 1984 after being dead for about 70 years, and who last flew a Sopwith Camel, was able to get in, start and fly a jet. The Tornado, despite having a tandem cockpit, suddenly changed to side-by-side seating as soon as they got in. After successfully taking off (and Wonder Woman turning the plane invisible, to eye as well as radar), they tooled around DC for a bit and flew THROUGH a fireworks display with expressions of wide-eyed wonder. You'd think that someone who (from his perspective) was dodging flak in a Camel a couple of days ago would be a bit leery of flying towards exploding things in the sky. After their scenic flight of the city, they then flew to Cairo. Non stop. Without refuelling. 9,300km in an aircraft with a range of 1,390km. Without toilets, food or drink. And imagine the DVT! My humble opinion - give it a miss. My disbelief was well and truly unsuspended.

Ryanair had the worst habit of cutting costs. They were even considering charging people 2 euro to use the loo.

Now THAT's tricky. I might have to look at getting a couple. Mounted on the side of the tank around halfway. Somehow you'd have to reverse the electrickery setup so that your two warning lights come on when they no longer sense liquid, rather than go off.

I would assume Solarguard would be fairly heavy - houses not generally having to worry about weight.

Hi Mike, Did you remove the upper pushrods from bellcrank to flaperon, or the lower ones from torque tube to bellcrank? I must admit I haven't connected the flaperons yet, but have the torque tube from the Y stick to the bellcrank. Where the lower pushrods connect to the bellcranks they move very freely and easily. The bellcranks are greased where they rotate on the mixer tubes, and on mine there's a metal washer between the bellcrank and the mixer. Savannah torque tube is probably different from the 701, on mine it's just supported either end through holes in metal (seat front where the Y stick connects and the crossmember just forward of the hatch at the back). Despite this it rotates freely. If you haven't pulled the bottom pushrods off, I'd be doing that - that way you can isolate whether the problem is in the torque tube, the bellcranks or the flaperons. AFAIK they're the only places in the system that could bind. Cheers, Marty

I fully agree with that and wish I had!! I drilled out the rivets holding the L/H seat pan the other day in order to mount the battery isolator under the seat. I've left it loose now until I get everything else done.

I'd also be interested in that, at roughly the same point. (Although mine's a 701, the main gear and rudder pedals inc. cylinders are off a Sav, so the system should be the same.)

The answer to this may be completely obvious, but why isn't trim automatic - ie mechanically linked so that when the control surface goes one way, the trim goes the other?

If they do Savannah legs then Zenith CH701 is a straight swap too... good place to put a lighter component too because it's not far away from CG.

Could I please get some more info from you JG? Any recommended brand / type, mixing ratio etc. I want to paint the plane hopefully this summer. Probably white with blue trim. Thanks, Marty

Maybe "motorvated"?

They'd want to be bloody good for $3,000 (Aus)

Even worse - every decision he made had to be approved by his personal astrologer. Literally. He consulted Joan Quigley before doing anything.

The plans for my 701 are American. All length measurements are in millimetres, but thicknesses are in 1000ths of an inch and rivet/bolt sizes are in fractions of an inch.

It's horses for courses, isn't it. If you've lost your engine but have control and there are places to land, then you wouldn't pull it. If on the other hand you had a control problem, or more likely medical problem (heart attack/stroke etc) then there's a case for pulling it.

No offence taken! As for removable - it would be a reasonably big job to take the wings on and off, but it's doable. There's only 2 bolts at the wing root, but another 6 to get the struts off on each side. Plus of course an inspection panel to access the fuel connectors.

Well, I still don't have a home airfield for this plane. I may have to end up trailering it, and if that happens, I need some way to take the wings off - hence I think having the ability to disconnect the wing tanks would be a good idea. While I do support the metric system, I don't mind referring to 3/8" hose when that's what's written on it.

I've been flipping through ads on the internet until my eyes bleed. I actually have 4x 1/4" quick disconnect fuel fittings, with integral shut-off when disconnected (from Aircraft Spruce) but following the "fuel flow" discussion I think I'm going to stick with 3/8" from tanks to engine. From everything I've seen there are a lot of 3/8" quick disconnect fittings but none of them have integral shut-off. This is probably fine in a car where the fuel tank is lower than the engine but doesn't work very well with wing tanks. Aircraft Spruce only stock the 1/4" ones. Does anyone know of a supplier who has the 3/8" ones with shut off? Preferably panel mount but at this stage I'll take what I can get. Thanks!