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February 8, 2009 at 5:27 pm in reply to: Westland Whirlwind, she's coming along nicely… #1922698

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..nice..CGI ?

February 8, 2009 at 9:33 am in reply to: General Discussion #359930

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The Seeker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR-ZAnil_Mw

…this is the real stuff…

My Generation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xZOrWK6d4g&feature=related

February 8, 2009 at 9:33 am in reply to: The YouTube Music Video Thread….2 #1922715

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The Seeker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR-ZAnil_Mw

…this is the real stuff…

My Generation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xZOrWK6d4g&feature=related

February 7, 2009 at 4:08 pm in reply to: General Discussion #360029

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The rock band from seventies…Hurriganes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbVuGromaYk&feature=related

Both guitar and base player have been dead long time now.

They went for rock and lived it the fullest !

:rolleyes:

Pretty good english in seventies Finland.

To know more about them ( document partially finnish swedish and english ):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngyeFd1SltI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX8S-omaBs8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxBora9ODsU&feature=related

What is strange is that their greatest hit GET ON was made in half an hour by Remu ( the drummer/vocalist ) who doesn’t understand english ( at the end of the document ) to fill a record they made in London.

Get on ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVmxlL2qH-c&feature=related and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1pPwnah_eM&feature=related

February 7, 2009 at 4:08 pm in reply to: The YouTube Music Video Thread….2 #1922764

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The rock band from seventies…Hurriganes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbVuGromaYk&feature=related

Both guitar and base player have been dead long time now.

They went for rock and lived it the fullest !

:rolleyes:

Pretty good english in seventies Finland.

To know more about them ( document partially finnish swedish and english ):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngyeFd1SltI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX8S-omaBs8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxBora9ODsU&feature=related

What is strange is that their greatest hit GET ON was made in half an hour by Remu ( the drummer/vocalist ) who doesn’t understand english ( at the end of the document ) to fill a record they made in London.

Get on ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVmxlL2qH-c&feature=related and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1pPwnah_eM&feature=related

February 7, 2009 at 12:20 pm in reply to: Glider destroyed by lightning #431375

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Lightning can also strike in daylite without thunderclouds…was this that sorta lightning that came suddenly outa nowhere ?

February 6, 2009 at 8:55 am in reply to: Something new perhaps ? #431384

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At that speed I hope they did extensive flutter tests! 😮

John Fricker did a great article in the old Air Enthuiast magazine during the BD-5 sales/hype period of the 70s questioning its performance goals…and most of what he said came to pass. I don’t think the factory ever got its powertrain system working as promised…even after selling thousands of kits.

Author Richard Bach did a story about flying his BD-5J back in the 70s…he stopped just short of advising anyone without military fast-jet experience (which he had) not to fly the plane.

Yeah the pilot says it goes 300 mph in a dive and at that speed the the foil limits any further speeds ( Gav-1 ).

Powertrain and especially cooling has been a problem every now and then in pushers.

I agree with Bach a small kite capable of 250 mph is a handful if you not customed to the speeds. But you get use to it after a while.

Thanks for the good comments again Boyle !

rgds,

Juke

February 5, 2009 at 2:28 pm in reply to: Something new perhaps ? #431389

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I switched the engine and shortened another 150 mm.
There is about same wingarea as in Vmax Probe, but a lot less weight.

Would it fly ?

And a cantilever wing monoplane record plane:

February 5, 2009 at 12:05 pm in reply to: General Discussion #360325

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Sorta like this; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzP4A3P4Ov4&feature=related

February 5, 2009 at 12:05 pm in reply to: Things that sort of fly #1922886

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Sorta like this; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzP4A3P4Ov4&feature=related

February 5, 2009 at 8:07 am in reply to: General Discussion #360354

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I saw my old Renault Twingo yesterday in the traffic ( I drive Volvo S40 ). It was good as new. Before I sold it I changed the mirrors to the new ones…that made big difference and a new set of tyres and a damper. I got 5 000 € of it eventough it was a 12 years old and new one was under 10 000 €.

Now that Twingo is 16 years old and apparently 5th or 6th owner.

In 1993 the model looked very sleek and aerodynamic and appealing in many ways.

I drove it even 155 km/h ( 11 years old at that time ) and it burned 5-6 liters per 100 km. It is now 160-180 000 km driven. Very compact also.

February 5, 2009 at 8:07 am in reply to: Economical / Eco-friendly car questions. #1922904

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I saw my old Renault Twingo yesterday in the traffic ( I drive Volvo S40 ). It was good as new. Before I sold it I changed the mirrors to the new ones…that made big difference and a new set of tyres and a damper. I got 5 000 € of it eventough it was a 12 years old and new one was under 10 000 €.

Now that Twingo is 16 years old and apparently 5th or 6th owner.

In 1993 the model looked very sleek and aerodynamic and appealing in many ways.

I drove it even 155 km/h ( 11 years old at that time ) and it burned 5-6 liters per 100 km. It is now 160-180 000 km driven. Very compact also.

February 5, 2009 at 7:51 am in reply to: Something new perhaps ? #431407

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How about ½ size Bearcat F8F-2 with Rotec engine ?

Australian ROTEC makes R2800 and R3600 engines of 110 and 150 hp.

Here is my version of a F8F-2 for those.

I assume £ 100 000 would be the manufacturing cost or less.

( pilot is 6 ft 4 in )

February 2, 2009 at 9:38 pm in reply to: Something new perhaps ? #431446

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As I recall, the BD-5s were very unstable in pitch and susceptible to PIOs…this design looks like it might be as well.

BD-5 and this…motorcycle of the skies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiCuHpMEOCc&feature=channel

…original Flea !

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About BD-5B…I have discussed with a person who flies it at 280 mph speeds with a 100 hp engine . He said it a as safe as the pilot who flies it.

BD-10 was unsafe at speeds over 250 kts. It was supposed to be supersonic. Bede refused to put it into a windtunnel albeit testpilot Skip Holm had advised to so and knew a good tunnel in the former east block country.

Burt Rutan did a good job in the designs contols ( BD-5B ). Multiple reinforcements and mods had to be done and engines that were supposed to be vailable proved to be too weak.

I ‘d say a good example of the small well flying kite is the Cri Cri it is also less than 4 metres long and is a twin. What makes Bede-5 special is the retracting undercarriage.

Here is Cri Cri:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDmnjwbJrVM

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

February 2, 2009 at 5:18 pm in reply to: General Discussion #360793

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There is no question of buying a hybrid or electric, you are looking at petrol and diesel only.

Thanks in advance.

Moggy

http://www.funny-potato.com/aptera-cars.html

Put diesel on that => 60% less air resistance.
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