Author: Alexander P. de C. Kaarsberg <kaarsber@terra.com.br>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 16:55:14
....and the bolts I got to use to fit the bushes have a smaller diameter than the pins used for flightMy bushes ended up close to two mm off, so I redid it, not a big thing to do at any stage of buil
Author: Alexander P. de C. Kaarsberg <kaarsber@terra.com.br>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 20:55:55
'Reply' rather than 'Reply All' it goes to the sender rather than the forum, and I get the sender's address added to my address book so that I can contact them again? You have to tell us what mail-pr
Author: Alexander P. de C. Kaarsberg <kaarsber@terra.com.br>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:39:49
I am thinking of routing my brake lines up and to the right, then aft going through the center console just below and forward of the instrument panel, then aft to the gears. That way they are more ou
Author: Alexander P. de C. Kaarsberg <kaarsber@terra.com.br>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 09:58:58
I have never seen the exact details of the arrangement but I imagine it as follows, the leg being formed in the shape of a long cylinder with a piston acting on the honeycomb, it's hollows arranged
Author: Alexander P. de C. Kaarsberg <kaarsber@terra.com.br>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:14:32
You are quite right, this is the only job the digital level is just not good enough for, as the leading and trailing edges are so far apart, you can use a clear water filled tube with a couple of dro
Author: Alexander P. de C. Kaarsberg <kaarsber@terra.com.br>
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 08:30:22
As I am in Melbourne on business until the end of August, I would like to see if there are any Europa builders in the area who would welcome a visit from a fellow builder? Regards, Alex, kit 529
Gert, You have a number of push pull rods, depending on where you fix it, the backlash,free play, slop, spil,slr (dansk ;-) ) can be in the remaining connections btw trailing edge and fixed point, in
....yeah, or Bombardier could get sold off to, say Honeywell and then they could call it Integrated Power Plant and start charging 25K for it...... :-D Seriously though, Id surely like to find a new
It should be easy enough to fold some thin cardboard, grease it up and use it to shape the bid but I wonder if adding bid and resin wont affect the flutter characteristics of the ailerons..? Alex kit
Having seen the signs of many lightning strikes on commercial aircraft, I can say the damage it does is dependant on the path it takes through the aircraft. In the vast majority of cases it goes in s
The Wright brothers also did not have the required observers and employed a katapult in order to make their contraption `fly. (Reportedly) Their flight was not recognized by the French academy until
I have seen one Rotax installation where the exhaust pipes were shrouded in asbestos cloth, it was said to reduce temps considerably. You cant get that easily everywhere though... Alex #529
aircraft I dont believe you can create a safe path for a lightning strike in a plastic plane without losing your payload capacity, but you should be able to avoid building up the static that attracts
And I am sure the striking similarity between native americans, north as well as south america, with asians and inuits must be proof of something similar. Still doesnt mean I dont want the title of
Danny, If you want to do it in sections, you should let them overlap so as not to lose out on structural strength. Inot sure how much but would guess at an inch, that way the sections grab hold on e
Extending your flaps with fixed leading edges increases lift coefficient but the angle of incidence becomes smaller, draw a line from l/e to t/e to see the chord at any given point and configuration