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  1. Twodeaddogs

    Building a VW Aero-Engine

    Can anyone identify this type of VW accessory case? It's on what appears to be an AS21 block.
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    Building a VW Aero-Engine

  3. Twodeaddogs

    Cheapest / least expensive plane to build

    Most people who use weightshift trikes tend to leave them rigged if they can, as derigging is slow if you dismantle the entire wing for folding, so then you are into hangarage and associated costs, driving up your hourly rate.
  4. Twodeaddogs

    A Wind Turbine Design Application...looks neat!

    The VAWT is perennially popular with experimenters but less so with real world commercial users.
  5. Twodeaddogs

    Cheapest / least expensive plane to build

    Already been done. There's a VP with a Jabiru in the UK and it's a very good flyer.
  6. Twodeaddogs

    Cheapest / least expensive plane to build

    One of those Phantom x1s. Has to be the cheapest of the regular mainstream microlights to keep and operate.
  7. Twodeaddogs

    Cheapest / least expensive plane to build

    There's a Russian ultralight called a "Pchelka" which has to qualify for the OP's criteria. It appears to be made of fishing rod and hoarding plastic but it looks to be a lovely flyer.
  8. Twodeaddogs

    Sold Texas Parasol Plans

    As twodeaddogs.
  9. Twodeaddogs

    Sold Texas Parasol Plans

    Richard, I tried to join the FB group a few days ago but was rejected as " not a builder"
  10. Twodeaddogs

    Eric Clutton's FRED turns 60 today!

    Committing heresy here, but could you build a FRED in aloominum instead? Angle alloy longerons and alloy airframe and alloy ribs and a flat leg undercarriage....
  11. Twodeaddogs

    ME-210

    The Hungarians used the 210_Ca and were quite happy with it. The Luftwaffe crews liked the bombbay as a gun carrier for a couple of 30mm cannon for tackling bombers. They did not like the 7.92s and regarded them as a waste of time. One of the later 410s had the option of the 13mm fitted where...
  12. Twodeaddogs

    Eric Clutton's FRED turns 60 today!

  13. Twodeaddogs

    Report: Boeing 'Put Wall Street First, Safety Second', Creating 'Yearslong Decline of Safety Standards'

    Look at the Purdue people. They effectively poisoned hundreds of thousands of people and got to walk away with their wealth intact.
  14. Twodeaddogs

    Report: Boeing 'Put Wall Street First, Safety Second', Creating 'Yearslong Decline of Safety Standards'

    Like that chump who walked up to Aldrin and called him a coward, got a punch in the gob for his pains.
  15. Twodeaddogs

    Report: Boeing 'Put Wall Street First, Safety Second', Creating 'Yearslong Decline of Safety Standards'

    Even his name sounds hard, like he'd nut you for just looking at his beer.
  16. Twodeaddogs

    Everything I Really Need to know I Learned from my Fly Baby

    The Flitzer is just crying out to have a ring and bead gunsight....and maybe a Spandau or a Vickers or a Lewis gun on the top wing
  17. Twodeaddogs

    Flying Pictures; Post Yours

    David Clamps...love it.
  18. Twodeaddogs

    Flying Pictures; Post Yours

    Rear gunner not happy. Out of bullets and just spotted another Fokker...
  19. Twodeaddogs

    Perfect Rivets

    The Germans used explosive rivets for quick field repairs in WW 2.
  20. Twodeaddogs

    Flying Pictures; Post Yours

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