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- Wed May 14, 2008 10:37 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
- Topic: Shake, rattle and roll
- Replies: 19
- Views: 18913
It's one thing to get the accelerometer and altogether another to make it into a useful device. They suffer from drift and zero error for a start... Rate gyros are worse. Even when you have a useful device, the real hard bit is turning the data into something meaningful... Believe me, I know. I'll l...
- Wed May 14, 2008 2:06 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
- Topic: Shake, rattle and roll
- Replies: 19
- Views: 18913
Nick - Actually it’s a six/nine axis device three linear accelerometers, three rate-gyros and three-axis magnetometer which keeps the rate gyro drift under control. It is based on this: http://www.xsens.com/en/products/machine_motion/mti_oem.php The only problem is that the sampling rate (30Hz) may ...
- Tue May 13, 2008 10:21 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
- Topic: Shake, rattle and roll
- Replies: 19
- Views: 18913
- Tue May 13, 2008 10:18 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
- Topic: Source of 1/4 BSW castle nuts!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6222
- Sat May 10, 2008 11:56 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
- Topic: Source of 1/4 BSW castle nuts!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6222
- Fri May 02, 2008 3:46 pm
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: Orphans - It's Official!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8383
- Thu May 01, 2008 6:30 pm
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: Orphans - It's Official!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8383
Orphans - It's Official!
Good news for my Jodel 1050 project and anyone else with a French 'orphan'. My letter from the CAA arrived today and it has been confirmed that it will be on a Permit. The interesting bit is a note on the back to say that, "A Permit to Fly may be issued with differing Flight Conditions or Maintenanc...
- Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:02 am
- Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
- Topic: Fuel Gauges?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 17998
For simplicity, you can not beat a standard boat-outboard filler-cap type gauge (cork and wire excepted). It uses a piece of flat stainless strip twisted through 270 degrees with a needle fitted to the top. The needle is viewed through a window on top of the filler cap. A plastic float with a slot i...
- Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:57 am
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: Mixing Microlight and class A in the circuit.
- Replies: 59
- Views: 37958
As a more serious response, have a look at combining shorter finals with glide or low-power steep(er) approaches. There are lots of strip flyers who are still hooked on the three-degree drag-it-in type approach. This has the engine at higher power at a lower altitude than a steeper or glide approach...
- Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:02 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
- Topic: Leburg / VW 1834 Conversion HT leads.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13471
Rob
I have Magnecor leads on my Nipper with Leeburg System (which utilise a coiled stainless steel core) and they work fine. No noticeable radio interference (though I do get a tiny bit from the alternator).
www.magnecor.co.uk/
I have Magnecor leads on my Nipper with Leeburg System (which utilise a coiled stainless steel core) and they work fine. No noticeable radio interference (though I do get a tiny bit from the alternator).
www.magnecor.co.uk/
- Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:58 pm
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: Mixing Microlight and class A in the circuit.
- Replies: 59
- Views: 37958
- Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:09 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
- Topic: Leburg / VW 1834 Conversion HT leads.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13471
www.ignitionleads.co.uk can make what you need to order. I have a drawing and a set of lengths for a Tipsy Nipper set if that helps.
- Mon Mar 24, 2008 1:38 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
- Topic: Fuel Gauges?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 17998
- Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:34 am
- Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
- Topic: Prop Bolts
- Replies: 21
- Views: 23799
The definitive text on all things nuts-and-bolts is usually regarded as, “An introduction to the design and behaviour of bolted joints” by John H Bickford. At just shy of 1000 pages it’s not exactly light reading. Even in this book, the author regularly states that industry best-practice often remai...
- Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:27 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
- Topic: Scott 3000 Tail wheel .. Re - bushing
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12359