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January 7, 2012 at 9:41 am in reply to: westland whirlwind fighter in black paint #1032948

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50% Westland Whirlwind !

I was thinking about it…and found it may be doable.

January 6, 2012 at 9:42 am in reply to: Shuttleworth Collection at Bedfordshire #408057

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Many thanks !

I think I get the picture.

How about a day trip to Old Warden and back to London and a train to Lancaster the next day ? I have to see the Tate gallery too.

rgds,

Juke

December 15, 2011 at 6:27 pm in reply to: World lightest real AC ? #408635

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Musculair I was 28 kilos..and flown with father and daughter configuration..with musclepower of course.
Garbrick built a 90 lbs plane for his son and he flew it..a teeenager.
Airy-Plane is the smallest twin ever by Wilbur Staib.

December 13, 2011 at 7:06 am in reply to: African Homebuilts #408669

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Some of them get airborne too. Mr.Päätalo has made 4 airplanes. Once police confiscated his prop. He carved a new the following evening and was airborne the next day !

http://www.apu.fi/artikkeli/lentaja

“Burt Rutan of Sanginjoki” on the left !

http://kuvat.a-lehdet.fi/sites/kuvat.a-lehdet.fi/files/imagecache/additional_images_display/images/248619.jpg

December 9, 2011 at 7:03 am in reply to: Bob Grimstead joins the Golf Club #408801

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Excellent piloting !

December 8, 2011 at 8:58 am in reply to: World lightest real AC ? #408814

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I agree VeeOne !

I have flown an aeroplane model succesfully with monowheel/ski without the rudder control..but tricycle landing gear would need a rudder steering too.

I’ll save few kilos when leaving the pedals away on my monowheel design.

I think also that ac would need to have a feeling that you are protected from the hard slipstream, hails, byrds and possibly engine room slightly warming your hands and feet while flying in a cold weather.

December 6, 2011 at 5:08 pm in reply to: World lightest real AC ? #408936

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Luciole MC-30 GT

That has nosewheel and sharply drooped wing tips…I saw a pic somewhere.

here; http://luciole18.over-blog.com/article-mc-30-gt-a-mortagne-85938456.html

That could be the lightest with cockpit and nosewheel.

It is generally 97 kg; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colomban_MC-30_Luciole

December 6, 2011 at 11:32 am in reply to: World lightest real AC ? #408940

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They are lite…but are they air craft ( AC ) ?

How lite could a plane with protection for the pilot from rain and birds be ?

December 5, 2011 at 2:28 pm in reply to: World lightest real AC ? #408944

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Wheeler Scout 49,4 kg empty !

This weight could be hard to beat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skycraft_Scout

May 30, 2011 at 9:25 pm in reply to: Breakthrough in AF 447 search #478794

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How far were the engines apart from each other when found…and where was the rudder..it seemed pretty much in one piece when found floating.

Why did it take 1 min 30 sec for the chief pilot to get into cockpit ? How far is the rest area from cockpit ?
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There is a complete debris field chart at – http://www.bea.aero/fr/enquetes/vol.af.447/presentation12mai2011.pdf

As for why it took 1min 30 sec for the Captain to gain access into the cockpit under modern anti terrorist conditions of cockpit security does not add any negative aspect or controversy to the tragedy.
The Captain Marc Dubois was on a legitimate break and although his proximity to the cockpit would not be far it was unlikley that he in any way deliberately delayed. It would be extremely disrespectful to a deceased Captain of his seniority for us to speculate that he acted in anything other than an absolutely professional way.

Let’s wait on more facts from the BEA.

I have nothing but respect for these pilots who fought last minutes in bad weather with faulty instrumets. I was just interested how far the rest area is from the cockpit.

Could the 40 deg angle cause people not seated to slide back and make nasty new CG position ? What about the luggage…how much can they move ?

May 27, 2011 at 1:50 pm in reply to: Breakthrough in AF 447 search #479414

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I am not a pilot, but doesn’t that somehow sound strange ..16 degs nose up and 5 left bank….is that a super stall attitude in the first place ?

How far were the engines apart from each other when found…and where was the rudder..it seemed pretty much in one piece when found floating.

Something tells tells me everything was far from OK in the flight 447. I actually expressed some of my views 4 months ago in one site and I was kicked out when I did not believe the Air France reports at that time.

To me seems like the incident did not happen at all like was in several study speculated.

Why did it take 1 min 30 sec for the chief pilot to get into cockpit ? How far is the rest area from cockpit ?

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Could an extreme build up of ice in the tail cause this kinda flight behaviour ?

May 13, 2011 at 8:16 pm in reply to: Something new perhaps ? #413545

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Ok Deskpilot…

I might actually go back to my older FNX II design…I ironed out few bugs that were in it ( CG and small nose wheel ).

But I gotta keep you entertained.

That would be world smallest if built with 1678 mm x 2700 mm measures !

:rolleyes:

May 2, 2011 at 1:28 pm in reply to: Something new perhaps ? #413898

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A-4-CE 1

To celebrate the newly weds..

Here is my newest version.

Doug it looks a bit like hybrid between your design and mine.

April 24, 2011 at 7:00 pm in reply to: Something new perhaps ? #414145

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New direction…

See my blog for the latest developements !

I might test a 1/6 scale model of the 4 engine jet ( 4 x P200 ) soon.

The twin caprio is on hold now.

These both are very affordable.

White Lightning II jet is 14,3 K€ for the engines….and Caprio could be as low as 2 x 299;90 € for the electric engines.

WL II is 270 KTS mover and that electric open cockpit thing is 120 km/h region with 120 lbs empty weight. Both have my developed landing gear system.

I had to dump the flying wing…I know nothing about that sorta flying machines.

April 7, 2011 at 7:46 pm in reply to: Something new perhaps ? #414544

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Mantaray !

I decided to go all the way..in the flying wing direction.

Less interference drag..and sturdier twin tailwheel assembly easy to make.
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