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  1. deskpilot

    Airplane For Sale T84 Thruster for sale.

    Having been diagnosed with Vascular dementia, My T84 Thruster need to find a new home. Complete and serviceable except for the want of new skins, best offer over $1500 wins. Buyer collects.
  2. deskpilot

    GIMBLED thrust !

    I once had a dream and decide to design a vectored thrust machine. Please ignore crazy over head wing. Same control system for left/right control(rudder)
  3. deskpilot

    Bending Aluminum Tube

    If small imperfections can be tolerated, how about using a propane blowtorch and flux filled aluminium rods to fill the indentations on the tube? Wouldn't add much weight but would prevent further tube collapse when under stress. Would the same system be safe to "weld" tube joints?
  4. deskpilot

    Rectangular aluminum tube spar

    Are you going to push a spar cap through the space above the spar. If so, that also needs to be taken into account.
  5. deskpilot

    What aviation news, blogs or e-mail newsletters do you actively read?

    HBA obviously....America Recreationalflying.com ......Australia Microlightforum,com .....,UK
  6. deskpilot

    Low and Slow......and quiet ?

    that would be called a Swiss Muffler I believe.
  7. deskpilot

    Raptor Composite Aircraft

    Stupid bloody comment. No pun intended.
  8. deskpilot

    Raptor Composite Aircraft

    I read with interest all your comments. I assume you all have pilots licenses but how many of you have a degree in Aeronautical Engineering? My guess, none of you. Maybe Peter doesn't either but he's having a go at building a somewhat different aircraft. At least he's not having a go at your...
  9. deskpilot

    Pod & Boom ; the folding prop integrated Around the boom

    G'day mate, no I didn't get round to building it. Too busy with slowly restoring my Thruster.
  10. deskpilot

    Converting Sail Cloth a/c to standard fabric covering?

    G'day Rob.I'm in the same position as you with my Truster type T84. Had it gifted to me because the Dacron sails were rotten. It's been stored for over 11 years but all is well except the sails. A full new set cost about the same in Aussie dollars so I'm experimenting with a cheaper way to...
  11. deskpilot

    Pod & Boom ; the folding prop integrated Around the boom

    I design such a system (minus folding prop) see my post Development of a dream. images start on page 3. This might give you some clues.
  12. deskpilot

    Shoulder wing unpopularity

    Heck, with covic - 19 and all, I'd completely forgotten about this thread. Sorry but no advance ment had been made as yet. I'll get back to it sometime soon.
  13. deskpilot

    Rotax 503 Question

    No cowl needed on a 503. Just a duct to get cool air to the rear cylinder.
  14. deskpilot

    Morphing Wing Technology

    Not being a wise-arse but I call that controlled twisting, not morphing. To me, morphing means to change shape (yes I know, twisting fulfills that somewhat) so here's my concept of porphing.
  15. deskpilot

    What type of flying machines is this ?

    R & Y, you're stick in the present. Think outside the sphere and see the future.
  16. deskpilot

    Scrappy

    I'm very surprised to see, or not to see, that nobody has mention Scrappy, a replacement for Drako By builder Mike Patey. This guys is a workaholic with a mind full of ideas to make the perfect plane for himself starting with 2 scrapped airframes. You want to know how to use carbon fibre, this...
  17. deskpilot

    Keleher Lark

    aha, the Kelleher version. Lark aircraft also produce several high wings like th commander shown here. https://www.aopa.org/-/media/Images/AOPA-Main/News-and-Media/Publications/Pilot-Magazine/2018/1805/1805p_bf_budgetbuy/1805p_bf_budgetbuy_16x9.jpg
  18. deskpilot

    Keleher Lark

    Are you building a high wing or mid wing version?
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