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- Sun Jul 12, 2020 8:37 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Design - General
- Topic: Avid Speedwing
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4765
Re: Avid Speedwing
Hi Gordon, We spoke a while back about a Pulsar, anyway regarding the Avid, I've never flown one, but it has a Jabiru engine so it will be relatively maintenance intensive. How handy are you with the spanners? I'd also be looking to check for corrosion on the frame (especially at the back) and how m...
- Sun Jul 12, 2020 8:04 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Design - General
- Topic: Converted Auto Engines for permit aircraft
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10132
Re: Converted Auto Engines for permit aircraft
To those who may be interested in pursuing this route this is the reply I got from LAA Engineering when I questioned them on this subject. ] Here, if an engine conversion does not have a history of reliable use in aircraft, we would need technical justifications showing the engine to be safe via an...
- Sat Oct 19, 2019 1:27 pm
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: Gaz'aile
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1745
Re: Gaz'aile
Thanks Sean.
I knew I'd seen one mentiones in the project section of the magazine, I just couldn't find it and wondered if the builder was active on the forum.
Regards
I knew I'd seen one mentiones in the project section of the magazine, I just couldn't find it and wondered if the builder was active on the forum.
Regards
- Sat Oct 05, 2019 11:05 pm
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: Gaz'aile
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1745
Gaz'aile
Hi
Is anyone in the UK building/putting through approval the Serge Pennec Gaz'aile?
Cheers
Andy
Is anyone in the UK building/putting through approval the Serge Pennec Gaz'aile?
Cheers
Andy
- Thu Jun 07, 2018 8:08 pm
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: Aircraft trailers
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4303
Re: Aircraft trailers
Sent you a PM. Not sure if it's sent though.John Price wrote:What type of aircraft Andy?
John.
Andy
- Mon Jun 04, 2018 8:05 pm
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: Aircraft trailers
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4303
Re: Aircraft trailers
Hi Bob, Thanks for the offer, I was hoping to perhaps get something sorted for regular operations that would take both wing and fuselage. As you say, your rig was for irregular use. Ideally the aircraft would be fully within the trailer footprint too to avoid overhang issues. Does anyone here tow th...
- Sun Jun 03, 2018 8:49 pm
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: Aircraft trailers
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4303
Aircraft trailers
Where might I get a trailer to transport a light aircraft? I've seen the odd Kitfox & Europa trailered about where do these trailers originate? I had considered buying some mild steel square tubing and having a crack at learning to mig weld and then spray the end result up with galvafroid paint. Als...
- Fri May 22, 2015 8:47 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
- Topic: Rotax 582 Greytop crank TBO
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2686
Rotax 582 Greytop crank TBO
Evening, What's the LAA view on the greytop 582 TBO? After the 300 hrs rotax TBO are you allowed to run them on condition with the Conrad Cyclone bearing tester thingy or is it a mandated new crank time? I'm reasonably sure you can go past TBO with monitoring on micro's but if it was an LAA permit a...
- Tue Mar 10, 2015 8:44 pm
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: Hummelbird
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6265
Re: Hummelbird
Just seen the updated new types progress chart, it seems that the Hummelbird is still only permit to test fly, so not yet fully permitted.
- Tue Mar 10, 2015 8:39 pm
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: Hummelbird
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6265
Re: Hummelbird
Hi, I'm considering buying a set of plans for a Hummelbird. Does the fact that there is a UK example mean that its an accepted type? Also, what are the chances of putting it on the register as an SSDR? Or now that it is an "LAA type" mean that engineering would have to agree to release it? The wing ...
- Thu Feb 06, 2014 6:53 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Design - General
- Topic: Composite panel 'flat-pack' construction
- Replies: 13
- Views: 28255
Re: Composite panel 'flat-pack' construction
The 'flat pack' composite has also been used in a US kit aircraft. A guy named Steve Rahm developed what he calls the Fold-a-Plane scene and it is used in a single place Corvair powered aircraft called the Cruiser. see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw7xafhj9ZI . I'm aware of the fold-a-plane, som...
- Thu Feb 06, 2014 6:46 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Design - General
- Topic: If Carling designed an LAA aircraft?
- Replies: 89
- Views: 133671
Re: If Carling designed an LAA aircraft?
I've never flown one either, maybe I meant to say "slow"...Ian Melville wrote:I've not flown one, but I would never have considered the Veep as a floaty type.Andy Kennedy wrote:a "floaty" type aircraft like, say, a Evans VP-1,
Andy
- Tue Feb 04, 2014 10:01 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Design - General
- Topic: Composite panel 'flat-pack' construction
- Replies: 13
- Views: 28255
Re: Composite panel 'flat-pack' construction
Isn't the AMF Chevvron motorglider built from flat panels of some type.
I've always liked its rather odd looks.
Would love to have a short wing, 'aeroplane' version, but suspect it might need a bit more poke...
Why was its construction method discontinued? Cost? IP retention?
Andy
I've always liked its rather odd looks.
Would love to have a short wing, 'aeroplane' version, but suspect it might need a bit more poke...
Why was its construction method discontinued? Cost? IP retention?
Andy
- Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:58 pm
- Forum: Aircraft Design - General
- Topic: If Carling designed an LAA aircraft?
- Replies: 89
- Views: 133671
Re: If Carling designed an LAA aircraft?
Of course, it's not feasible to have a 250 kt cruise on a VW for a £10,000 aeroplane, Wasn't this the Rand KR-2's claimed performance :lol: On a more serious note, this sounds like an excellent project. I've long been interested in building an aircraft, but the major cost of a kit is a major deterr...
- Sat Jan 04, 2014 11:39 am
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: LAA Website
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16136
Re: LAA Website
Paul Leigh wrote:
I know it has ben built by the same outfit that did the BMAA site, no doubt to a cheap as chips price but the important thing is, that it looks cheap as chips too.
Ah, so thats why folk on the BMAA forum were complaining we'd ripped them off
Andy