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  1. cheapracer

    Parts For Sale FS: Garmin GI 106A

    Garmin GI 106A for sale Condition: As is, worked before removal from the plane. Included: Unit only Price $500 shipped OBO Removed from my panel when I upgraded to a Pair of G5s. Pm me please.
  2. cheapracer

    Sold SOLDGarmin Aera 760

    Garmin Aera 760. Like new. Only used once. Includes yoke mount and cigarette lighter charger cord. SOLDSOLDSOLDSOLDSOLDSOLDSOLD
  3. cheapracer

    HBA Member "Day Jobs"

    And yet you "liked" post #114, where was your outcry then.
  4. cheapracer

    HBA Member "Day Jobs"

    Oh here we go again .... I live here, and have done it a number of times, actually preparing a local city based complaint these days to take to them these days. Also through the Law Firm we have a couple of lawsuits currently running against the Government, as we have had numbers in the...
  5. cheapracer

    HBA Member "Day Jobs"

    Wow, I'm impressed you can segregate one as being the biggest from their other blunders. It must have been close ...
  6. cheapracer

    HBA Member "Day Jobs"

    I worked for a bit drilling coal seams core samples looking for natural gas, deepest mobile rig in Australia, down to 1000 meters. I was trying to catch a drill pipe on the crane coming off the trailer, as I was looking up noticed the clouds moving, next thing I know I was laying on my side on...
  7. cheapracer

    HBA Member "Day Jobs"

    Recently I have become a Gay Gigolo. Business is so good I can barely sit down.
  8. cheapracer

    Icon A5 Update - No Deliveries!?!

    there must be a joke there some where about their failure and the meaning of life.
  9. cheapracer

    What About EV Automobiles?

    There's a Youtube video out there about a Nissan Leaf the same, instead of panicking and buy a whole new battery pack, they tracked down the bad cell, replaced only that, and the car is like new again.
  10. cheapracer

    What About EV Automobiles?

    I have owned 5 EVs since 2015, still own 3. The myths on the internet are often ludicrous, and if can be applied to a machine, xenophobic. Here's the best up sides and the worst downsides in a nutshell. Up: -Quiet and smooth, amazingly so, you have no idea until you have driven one...
  11. cheapracer

    Mysterious Issue Is Causing Paint To Peel Off Of Airbus A35o's

    Covid must have had a large impact on A380 owners.
  12. cheapracer

    Mysterious Issue Is Causing Paint To Peel Off Of Airbus A35o's

    https://simpleflying.com/a380s-scrapped-singapore/
  13. cheapracer

    Making your hangar more comfortable?

    Better fitting underwear.
  14. cheapracer

    Ducted Fan Pseudo-Jets

    How do you power 8 or more small engines to give the safety factor that batteries can and do, with fuels .... Still don't understand why these designers won't put the center of mass way below the blade line or blade plane (not sure what you call it) for stability and control.
  15. cheapracer

    Aluminum extrusion spar web.

    The wing didn't fail there, it failed at the root, see the picture, and Gary, who I spoke to about it, admits it was his own fault, he undersized the root gusset plate trying to save a bit of weight. . For those interested, they both walked away.
  16. cheapracer

    Aluminum extrusion spar web.

    Morgan Sierra tapered spars use 50 x 6mm / 2" x 5/16" 6061 T6 angle, which is tapered to the end on the upper and lower caps. 0.32" web sheet The wings overlap and are offset to each other, and one has the angles facing forward, and one to the rear to minimise the offset. The top picture is...
  17. cheapracer

    Aluminum extrusion spar web.

    You haven't nominated the size of craft, I am considering doing extruded spars, and have been considering it for a while. Dies costs me something the region of $300. Some aircraft use extruded angle for their spar caps, there's no reason you couldn't double up with them for inner lengths of...
  18. cheapracer

    Humor

    There is a movie about it starring Michael Keating, if you weren't aware. The movie doesn't paint him as a Saint, that's for sure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Founder
  19. cheapracer

    Humor

    There was a nonsensical news story in Australia a few decades ago that some older people were so poor, they had resorted to "eating dogfood", the reports were debunked by showing the costs of dogfood ...
  20. cheapracer

    Humor

    ? Based on that you crashed into a tree, and she's stuck up there, I would suggest "inability".
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