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    Power steering for planes.

    Which is relevant to aircraft use how?
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    Power steering for planes.

    Earlier power steering pumps were simple designs with a pressure relief valve and that's it. No electrics/electronics to worry about, bypass just pumped back into the suction side of the pump or reservoir. Would be ridiculously simple to control landing gear, flaps, spoilers etc with simple...
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    Reliable 2 stroke... Is there such a thing?

    And that's exactly what you find on outboard powered boats. The tightass owners who spec "just" enough power to get the boat up on the plane end up with engines that don't last and drink fuel like crazy. The smarter, wiser owners spec reasonable reserve power and cruise happily at 75% or less...
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    Orion's "Composite Think" in Plywood???

    Those tophat stringers are perfectly suited to being moulded in composites, to make them in wood would be a pain. There's no reason you can't make/buy the tophat sections and bond them to plywood, it would work well. It would be versy easy to make up a mould on a table and lay up stringers like...
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    Reliable 2 stroke... Is there such a thing?

    The outboard engine manufacturers have proven that 2 strokes can be reliable. Now, if the "aircraft" engine manufacturers would stop trying to wring 100hp out of 25cc's, they might become more reliable. I personally think the high power to displacement ratios of the ultralight 2 strokes is half...
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    How wide should a grass strip be?

    Wide enough for a ground loop.
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    Hi, my username says it all.

    I've been on the fence for the last 10 years or more, trying to decide whether to build an aircraft or not. Way back when I first started procrastinating, I really liked the Barracuda. During that time I've looked at other designs, looked at really simple tube and fabric designs, but I really...
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    Will wood replace aluminium in aviation soon ?

    Do not forget what composites rely on- fossil fuels. The price is and will continue to rise for composites. Don't get me wrong, composites are great, just expensive and very, very unforgiving of errors. Aluminium is a nice metal but I've never understood it's use for "homebuilt" aircraft. Go...
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