A Haynes Manual for the Dakota please.

JC

Somebody please put on an airshow.

😀 😀 Looks like some contributors have gone through the angry stage of withdrawal and have moved into the “dribbling into their cocoa” phase.. Having not attended an airshow for 18 months, I’m in the “spending all weekend in a cold hanger and enjoying it” stages of the condition.

JC

Kevlar = Aramid FYI.

Thanks – I wasn’t sure of that, but too lazy to check 🙂

JC

The Mosquito one. Love it. They’re all brilliant, but the Mossie one is my fave.

JC

What they all said – Simply put, the skin forms a major structural part of the assembly, whereas in a “composite” (that’s a good term for it Chiron!) structure the tubular chassis (for want of a better word) would be self supporting. In other words, don’t strip the skin off a Spitfire without it being properly supported in jigs.

Modern light aircraft designs made from the modern usage of the word “Composite” (meaning an amalgum of Glass Fibre, Carbon Fibre, Kevlar and Aramid weaves all bound together by resin) are more true to the term monocoque, as they can be thought of as a shell.

JC

Whoa, big boom!! To quote from the “Life of Brian”: “You lucky lucky b*stard!”

JC

That wouldn’t surprise me Mark – the cue I had in mind is the Spifire wing shape of the fascia on the XK, XJ, S type and X type.

The Newport Pagnell company wouldn’t begin with the letter “T” by any chance?

JC

So is the MEIR a combined thing, or is it two separate courses grouped for convenience?

In other words, would I do the ME rating and then the IR or would I just do a MEIR course?

JC