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  1. Marty_d
    I'm sure it's been done before... but....
  2. Marty_d
    Let me guess the audio... "This'll be close." *CRUNCH* "Shit! Ah well... she'll be right!"
  3. Marty_d
    That's a fair old whack. There's no way he didn't know he hit something.
  4. Marty_d
    Look like a lot of fun. Bet farmers who currently use helicopters to muster stock are watching that video and wondering about costs.
  5. Marty_d
    Great watch, thanks Brendan!
  6. Marty_d
    Thanks Bob. And looking at that last photo, I've just discovered where I left my glasses...
  7. Marty_d
    If I get a spill and it damages the top window I might - but I'm not going to change it out just in case.
  8. Marty_d
    Not much travel on the nosegear, it has the rubber "hockey puck" suspension so pretty stiff.
  9. Marty_d
    Finally finished the cover. Took many hours of sewing - in fact I'd be happy to never use a sewing machine again! I should have just paid the money, it's given me an appreciation of how much work goes into these things. Quite happy with the results though.
  10. Marty_d
    Reporting at its best... "The student miraculously escaped injury after a low speed runway excursion".... Well if it was low speed, what's so miraculous about escaping injury??
  11. Marty_d
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-04/light-plane-sunshine-coast-emergency-landing/104432546
  12. Marty_d
    One of them is going the wrong way Gareth! (Just kidding, I know you haven't tightened them yet)
  13. Marty_d

    C-5M Super Galaxy.jpg

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    Interesting noseleg with the 4 wheels in line. Anyone know why they did it that way instead of a 2x2 formation?
  14. Marty_d
    He might have been vet-ed at some point in his life. Where there's a quill there's a way...
  15. Marty_d
    They can put on a turn of speed when they have to. Good spotting to see one trundling across the runway.
  16. Marty_d
    Why??
  17. Marty_d
    Sure it wasn't their dodgy search? I looked for "Avdel Avex" + Enter and got Cherry rivets and a rivnut airgun. However just "Avdel Avex" without pushing Enter shows a selection of the right rivets.
  18. Marty_d
    https://vintageaviationnews.com/vintage-aviation/worlds-only-dc-3-on-floats-takes-to-the-skies.html
  19. Marty_d
    As someone who just spent $25k getting our driveway resurfaced, I can sympathise with the owners of that airfield.
  20. Marty_d
    On ze neck of a young voman.
  21. Marty_d
    I'm not planning to go to a club. My neighbour up the road (where my real plane is currently, taking up most of their shed) has a paddock with a nice slope down to a valley, which it'd be great to fly over. So I'm just going to use it locally. This design is pretty good for transporting though - the wings come apart, they get their strength from carbon fibre tubes which extend out to the start of the tip dihedral. So one wing's tube just slides into the other's and they get bolted down to the fuselage together. There's a small servo for each aileron with the wire coming out into the fuse and joined with a Y connector.
  22. Marty_d
    As mentioned - the balsa glider kit. Turned out to be a great little kit, all parts laser cut and fit perfectly. Whole thing went together in about 3 days. Just waiting now on the radio and battery pack for the motor - I thought I'd be able to use my old radios (which have collected dust for about 30 years) but unfortunately they're beyond salvage. Still, new ones are heaps cheaper than they used to be.
  23. Marty_d
    Spent an hour with some mildly soapy warm water... I want to start making the cover so thought I'd better start with a clean plane! In the end I went thru 6 buckets and the water in each one was brown when I finished. Amazing how much dust gets on it in the shed. So now she's the cleanest she's ever been since the sheets of aluminium were unpacked 14 years ago! Next job is to get a big roll of paper, lay out and cut, then cut the car cover up and sew it together. Anyway, thought I'd share a pic or two of the clean plane!
  24. Marty_d
    According to Wiki, .303 ball rounds (ie projectile only) weigh 11.3g and tracer 8.4g. Not sure how much the shell casing and propellant would weigh but it'd have to be more than the bullet. If you assume they're ejecting the casings out of the aircraft as well you could probably more than double that estimate. (Having said that, a minute is a long time, and bombers lose much more weight than that quite quickly... a Lancaster carried up to 6.3 tonnes of bombs).
  25. Marty_d
    Bet he got a call from the FAA.
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