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  1. Marty_d
    Sounds like Angel Flight should have been a bit more careful about who they got in bed with.
  2. Marty_d

    Bréguet 460 Vultur

    Marty_d commented on red750's aircraft in Warbirds

    No, but a built-in headwind is never a good idea
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    Bréguet 460 Vultur

    Marty_d commented on red750's aircraft in Warbirds

    I didn't say it didn't fly, I said it was a horrible design made by the glazier's association...
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    Bréguet 460 Vultur

    Marty_d commented on red750's aircraft in Warbirds

    Quelle horrible conception ! Fabriqué par l'association des vitriers.
  5. Marty_d
    Too bloody dangerous too. More people die playing lawn bowls than any other sport...
  6. Marty_d
    It looks so classic in taildragger configuration Don - why would you mess with that? 🙂
  7. Marty_d
    I certainly pucker every time I see how close he came to the building.
  8. Marty_d
    They didn't tell me to orbit at all. They told me to continue on final (I was the C172) and they told the B737 to do one orbit.
  9. Marty_d
    Different airports. YCBG (Cambridge) is for lighter aircraft and only about 1km away from YMHB (Hobart International). I was on approach to 27 at YCBG, the B737 on approach to 12 at YMHB.
  10. Marty_d
    Yep - it was the tower who told me to continue on final and them to orbit - I would have been happy to burn a couple of holes in the sky until they'd landed, but I wasn't about to argue with the tower.
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    It's funny when the bigjobs have to give way. I remember approaching YCBG from the east once, which means tracking to the north of YMHB and across the approach to their runway (12/30). ATC gave me right of way so the B737 on approach had to do an orbit while a little C172 with 1 person on board was on final - often wondered how much that cost the airline!
  12. Marty_d
    Well, in the end they went in quite nicely. I gave them an hour in the freezer, used a bit of WD40 and pulled them through with an M8 x 1.25 bolt. No problem. Thanks for your advice guys!
  13. Marty_d
    Ah - just found this advice which also meshes with yours. "The manual states never to hit the prop shaft with a hammer (regardless of size or composition). Correct procedure is to lightly coat the bores of the prop hub with anti-seize as well as the lugs themselves. Using an M8x1.25 bolt (for the metric lugs 842634) and a deep 3/8 drive socket, draw the lugs into the hub by tightening the bolt. This will get the lugs in 99% of the way. Once the prop is installed and torqued to its specification, the lugs will seat themselves 100%. "
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    Thanks Bob. I bit the bullet and bought them from Bert Flood, and they're sitting in my freezer now. I assume when you talk about pulling them into place with bolts and spacer, the spacer is a large socket or similar with the bolt and washer going through it, into the threaded insert on the back of the flange and tighten the bolt? Also assuming it'd be wise to buy separate M8 bolts for this process and not use the ones that are going on the prop?
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    Not a bad looking design for something that was on the drawing board close to 100 years ago. Tailfeathers look very similar to DC3/C47. Overall it looks like someone got a generic fighter, scaled it up a bit and filled the front fuselage with passengers. If they'd put on a canopy for the pilot (and yes, cabin heat) it'd be a bit better.
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    Northrop YC-125 Raider

    Marty_d commented on red750's aircraft in Warbirds

    Looks like it's about to give birth.
  17. Marty_d
    I feel a bit sorry for whichever passengers get the first seat, they're about half a metre away from the big radial.
  18. Marty_d
    That sounds intelligent. Easy to read and it'd never over-read, only under (if you let your finger slip a bit).
  19. Marty_d
    If you lightly oiled it, would it still work (and not wick?)
  20. Marty_d
    Here you go. May not stop the W calls though. https://www.skyshop.com.au/shopexd.asp?id=1534
  21. Marty_d
    Similar problem down here in southern Tas. I'm going to want to find my plane somewhere to live in hopefully the next 12 months. I'm on a waiting list for a short strip nearby (Sandfly) but it's very limited in the number of planes they allow there and also a strip which requires a bit of experience to use (I think they require 200 hours). My only other option currently is park it in the open up at Tunbridge, about 1.5 hours drive away.
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    Hey all, I want to mount the Bolly soon and looking at the hardware included - there are 6 bolts from hub to engine (drilled head M8x75), but no inserts for the prop flange. So are those press fit things? Where does one get them - are they a Bert Flood thing? Thanks for any advice. Cheers, Marty
  23. Marty_d
    Definitely don't covet my neighbour's ass. His wench's ass, now that's another matter.
  24. Marty_d
    Beautiful. Interesting footage of the takeoff - assume drone - hadn't seen a plane take off from that perspective before.
  25. Marty_d
    Why are tailwheels solid - is it just the size? I would have thought a pneumatic with lower tyre pressure would prevent this. Disclaimer - I know nothing about taildraggers.
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