Spodman

Either March or Feb Wheels magazine. I gather you are local, it was on the waiting room table in the Dentist surgery at Essendon Airport. You can go there if you wish, I don't have to for another year:D

I noticed in an Australian review the peak torque is shown at 1800 rpm. Direct drive an option to keep the weight down???

Spotlight at Essendon DFO have these on a runout special, $75, 5 left, (after I got mine). This compares OK with my experience of US prices and save your freight. SWMBO won't let me try it out until my birthday... Appears identical to US example I've seen Drew Chaplin use, but with Oz power supply. They also have a cheaper alternative, but the blades look like plain steel and they are PINK!

Thanks for the advice. I wasn't planning on using those numbers, just making sure my dream aircraft matches my mission. I plugged all the w&b data from the POH into my Palm, using the Co-pilot program, now I'm tinkering with missions & weights & consequences of changes. I'm going to need a really light nose, affecting my choices of instruments/radios & maybe not permitting an electric nose lift or the front hinged canopy I'd prefer. I'd like to make these decisions before I build that bit or buy any expensive hardware. I entered the first flight limits as a utility envelope and that is easy to stay in for early testing, but I'll figure that all again sometime in the hazy future when I've got REAL numbers.

I had heard reference to the 400lb, which would be a bit of a limitation for me, but the POH says 425! I've also heard of those going higher. With Spod and the heftiest Spodling on the front seat I'm under the 425lb, but forward of the FWD cg limit with less than half fuel! Sorry about the thread drift Drew, but it means people are reading it:cool:

Thanks Drew, downloaded and digesting. Have now seen w&b presented in the original form, and have converted to units I can understand Guess what? 105kg of Spod on the front seat and I'm bouncing off the front c.g. limit most of the time if there is anybody sitting next to me. Most importantly, my face sheet has a VH- in front of the rego:cool:

I'd say you have blown some money and added weight the aircraft didn't need.

http://www.videovat.com/videos/2263/acdc-dirty-deeds-done-with-sheep.aspx It is a documentary.

Was caught doing something like this by by 14 year old. He showed me that a center button mouse click opens the link in a new tab in Firefox. In IE7, if you have multiple tabs open it even keeps the new link tab next to the current one.

I know our system is similar, but more restrictive than the US, but here, if you wish to register the aircraft as Am-built you have to demonstrate to the CASA inspector, or the alternative organisation's inspectors (which I forgotten the term for) that it was at least 51% built by, y'know, AMATEURS! That isn't the case there?

Had a thought, what is the flying status of this machine? It isn't a homebuilt, it was built in a factory by Scaled. If they claim it doesn't exist it probably means they don't support it, so nobody can maintain it??? If operated as an experimental will there be restrictions on its operation, not being a homebuilt?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrieus_wind_turbine One assumes this means the one in the foto had a spectacular demise...

...or you could just turn the bits of paper over... I must admit I don't understand the "I'm left-handed" "I'm right-handed" thing, it seems most people seem to note one hand is marginally better at something and thereafter pretend the other one doesn't exist. I seem to be right dominant when approaching tasks, but usually use the hand that is nearest, unless the other is better at a particular skill. If I want I can make the non-dominant hand learn stuff, you just have to teach it. I've learnt to fly left-handed, and have demonstrated even less skill with the right Expect I could learn, and get the ATIS down with my left. On the other hand I may just be a freak...

I like the fillets on the inner join between the wing & winglet too. Any idea what the nosewheel came off? I believe the Defiant's came from a Mooney of some description. That is a strange starting price, how much closer to the 150,000 you mentioned is the reserve likely to be?

If you could get your head between your legs in a Cozy it would be the last time you would do it. Head between your legs protects your spine if you plow into something horizontally, but would snap it like a carrot for a vertical impact. I would say the Cozy seating would protect you better than anything else. The Cirrus BRS system relies on the undercarriage soaking up part of the impact. You don't get that overwater, I've read of one vertical ditching that broke the pilot's spine. If you ditch in 15' waves your survival problems are only beginning... I've read up a bit on the BRS system in the Cirrus and don't think your concept is that unreasonable. MCDM3 has summed up the usual objections. I don't know if BRS systems in general resemble that bolted to a Cirrus: The chute is fired away from the airframe, the leaders that may come in contact with the prop are supposedly prop-proof. You don't have to stop the prop in a Cirrus to pop the chute, even in a spin. Snotta problem. The beauty & secret of the BRS system is a sleeve over the shroud lines that holds the shrouds together and doesn't allow the chute to fully inflate until the whole aircraft/chute slows down. You deploy and the chute 'candles' and acts like a drogue, gradually deploying as the speed washes off. There's no single point on the Cirrus strong enuf either. The cables to the 3 (from memory) hard points lie under the paint in 'soft' channels. This could be duplicated in the Cozy. For hard points how about a cable around each inboard wing attach and one attached to two canard tabs? No idea if it would be strong enuf, but it holds up the aircraft as it is.

Yup! King Island Airways. I know a few of the pilots, one had a door come open in flight on him last year...

I saw a similar mechanical prop powered directly by airflow at an airshow once, and the same concept is on the elderly Pilatus P2. Not sure that either of them would work when it is the last thing through the airflow of a pusher, rather than the first. Then engines it is designed for look a bit puny also. http://photos.linternaute.com/photo/1093405/1019196287/1686/pilatus-p2-06/

Erm, you don't know that. You can only be sure it wasn't there when you did your daily, before you started & taxied. If you were out of YBSS there is a lot of crap to traverse for a pusher, if out of YMMB you probably taxied over the impact site of any number of GFS trainers... I don't believe a nick in the prop will cause an immediate failure every time. It might take a particular rpm & airspeed to turn local damage into a failure, or just take time for a crack to propagate. Sorry, I forgot about that. In a completely separate aside I was talking to Pete last year and he was showing interest in a Cozy build, and you have reminded me he was keen to see the plans. We were talking just before my PPL test and I had forgotten it in the resulting euphoria When you see him would you like to ask if that itch has been satisfied or would he still like a look? He could email me at spodman59 AT gmail.com

You are probably aware I'm not particularly knowledgeable about such, but it looks like you dinged a stone or suchlike. There a few other dings there as well, have you been flying out of somewhere rough? Do you still have the old prop, it looked good.

Ooops. Shouldn't post while inhaling Spodgrog I expect. Happy New anyhow, and you have to let me back for another plane day to get your videos back:cool2:

I still haven't made my mind up about this mod. It would introduce more fuel into the cabin, but cut down on the fuel tubing in the cabin. I have had two aircraft in my control admit to venting most of their fuel out through an open filler by injudicious use of the the cross feed, and see this system as an automated version of that. If such things are available, I think a non-return valve in the line from each fuel tank to the sump tank would fix it.

Crivens! Fair enough. Was talking to a guy in a Cirrus flying at precautionary cruise with the flaps downand dicky weather all around him a while ago who wouldn't agree, he sounded like he was sh#$%ng himself... High powered aircraft get into fast changing weather FASTER. A C337 at Waratah Bay this month comes to mind also... I would agree with your last comment if you took out the 'underpowered' and put 'weather related' before the GA.

Mmmmmmmmm. Welded all my peel ply together with the Fein, maybe I can use a t-shirt...

From an online review I found on the mysterious SVX"The 3.3-litre 24-vlave flat six engine... ...is at once the cars heart and finest asset and also its biggest liability for the used purchaser. Its an incredibly complex engine featuring IRIS, Subarus variable intake system and four overhead cams operating four valves per cylinder. A single toothed cam belt drives both exhaust cams with intake cam drive coming from helical gears located on the exhaust cams themselves. Its almost as if Subarus engineers set about showing off what they could do, in much the same way that Mariah Carey never chooses one note when fifteen will suffice." Erm, doesn't inspire me with confidence. With a thwacking great anchor like that bolted to the back of your aircraft AND extra fuel you would not get much payload for your beast. No idea on the next three questions I'm afraid. What is the mission you are intending that requires these extreme changes? I don't believe there is any reason to think so. Extra fuel in pods below the wing will provide an intriguing distraction from the destruction of all the other items you mention if you forget to put the dunlops downward one day... Erm, that reads a bit like an ad there, do you buy a lot of stuff from K-tel??? Seriously though, they do look nice, but that price will grow when you convert to Pacific Pesos and add freight to Oz, and customs & GST & other assorted palm-greasing. A whittled stick or squeezing micro with a glove on with a switch on top will do it for me. Best of luck with your project mate!

Erm. Why?