Author: Graham Singleton <grahamsingleton@btinternet.com>
Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 00:35:36
Paddy, thanks for that, I hope you will lean on Gerry to get checked out and start flying G-FIZY soon, time he had something fizzy to smile about! Graham
Author: Graham Singleton <grahamsingleton@btinternet.com>
Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 00:02:33
Karel just one further thought, you should make only one modification then test before you make the next mod, then you have an idea which mod works and which doesn't Graham
Author: Graham Singleton <grahamsingleton@btinternet.com>
Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 20:56:34
Jeff are you sure the seal strip was styrene? The glider boys over here use Melinex which is polyethylkene teraphthalate. Dacron to you and Terylene to us but in film form. They make pop bottles from
Author: Graham Singleton <grahamsingleton@btinternet.com>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 22:41:21
Ira VGs were applied to the wing and canard of a Long EZ, which has laminar sections on both, to reduce stall speed, the VGs re energise the laminar boundary layer and help to prevent separation afte
Author: Graham Singleton <grahamsingleton@btinternet.com>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 18:58:57
Phil the nioest wing root I've seen is Ted and Justin's, small radius at the LE, large at the TE. picture attached. imho this is the way to do it, the fillet needs to be flexible to allow wing bendin
Author: Graham Singleton <grahamsingleton@btinternet.com>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 22:05:18
Fred The stall on the Europa is critically affected by the position and size of the LE radius, Don and his aerodynamicist friend David tweaked the leading edge, it's quite a sharp radius and there is
Author: Graham Singleton <grahamsingleton@btinternet.com>
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 21:41:14
Jon you could buy the XS jointing hose elbows and an aluminum tube to replace the rubber, lighter too. Graham order that they might be willing to part with? Maybe you've converted to the xs baggage b
Author: Graham Singleton <grahamsingleton@btinternet.com>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 01:15:47
Rowland & everyone THe file I attached gives one section only, which is the same over the whole wing as faras I know. To make my templates I scaled the section to match the chord at each station, so
Author: Graham Singleton <grahamsingleton@btinternet.com>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 19:20:27
Bruno You are right about motor gliders and I used to think the short wing mon was the same but qyucker. IMHO its too quick to react with aileron so its better to have the outriggers firmly on the gr
Author: Graham Singleton <grahamsingleton@btinternet.com>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 00:36:49
Fred Good point. I spoke to the Airmaster guys a few years ago and they told me they spent a lot of time looking for the right blades. Warp were far --From ideal, the design of the prop was for ragwi
Author: Graham Singleton <grahamsingleton@btinternet.com>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 10:47:47
Fred,William Ira William and everyone I continue to be puzzled by the Warp Drive prop, which we all know was designed for slow microlight A/C. Jerry Davis once pointed out that you need less twist at
Author: Graham Singleton <grahamsingleton@btinternet.com>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 15:10:06
Karel I think it is because Arplast don't talk good English and Airmaster don't talk good French. Sad, I did told them both! Airmaster did ask the question but got no reasonable answer. I can recomme
Author: Graham Singleton <grahamsingleton@btinternet.com>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 13:44:34
Gilles I didn't know that! I'm niot surorised Colomban did the design. The problem with MT is the cost and weight. I haven't seen the one for the MCR4s, is that lighter? Graham -- Graham Singleton Te
Author: Graham Singleton <grahamsingleton@btinternet.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 22:07:51
It saddens me greatly that William made a mistake or wrong decision or whatever and it cost he and Paul their lives. I thank my Guardian Angel that my own wrong decisions didn't cost me a similar pri
Author: Graham Singleton <grahamsingleton@btinternet.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 22:40:48
Dave may I add a couple of pictures I have from the same trip, taken on the Barkaby to Ivalo leg. This is how I will remember them, living the dream Graham -- Graham Singleton Tel: +441629820187 Mob:
Author: Graham Singleton <grahamsingleton@btinternet.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 22:25:55
Dear Josephine Please accept my apopogies for my earlier remarks. I have read my email again and you are right, it does appear that I implied pilot error which was not at all what I intended to say.
Author: Graham Singleton <grahamsingleton@btinternet.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 23:43:20
Glenn don't disagree with your main issues, there's almost never too much power. (There can be too much torque though!) but 930lbs? The best Europa Rotax monos come in at around 780 lbs and you can r