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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ernest Christley" <echristley@nc.rr.com>
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 10:04 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: fuel cutoff valve necessary?
> rijakits wrote:
>
> >you are probably right.
> >BUT, I got that experience over a rather scarcly inhabited rainforest
area.
> >I am a" burned child":)) I will go for that mechanical device.
> >For me it is a little like the EWP, I want to see it work. I want to see
it
> >work a LOT! :))
> >I will go with the " proof me wrong" - concept. In this case it just has
to
> >be built and used often and long enough and I'll believe it.
> >At the rate at which I get closer to my airplane building dreams, it
won't
> >be no problem - by then there is no more fossil fuel engines except in
> >museums :((
> >
> >Thomas J.
> >
> >
>
> Ain't nothin' wrong with that. I ain't mad at ya'.
>
> I would like to give you a piece of unsolicited advise, though. I don't
> know why you're not building, yet, but usually it either money or time.
> I say pick out an airplane that you like and that you can get plans
> for. Pick out all the little pieces and start making them one by one.
> You'll spend very little money for materials, and filling a fitting to a
> perfect finish is something you can do in front of the TV or on your
> lunch break. Don't make it a priority or a must do sort of thing, just
> something to while away the hours with. By the time you actually get
> the money/time, you'll be over half done with a nearly complete set of
> all the little pieces which actually take the majority of the time.
>
Hi Ernest,
sorry for the very late answer - I had a 1450 email backlog from fly-rotary
only!!
Thanks for the advice, I am working towards exactly that!
Presently I try to install some workarea behind the rented house I am living
in. Slow process for lack of time.
Then there is a Suzuki Samurai to resurrect! Lots of outstanding 4x4 terrain
without any restrictions in my corner of the world!)
Then I plan to put the BD-4 plans (I got the pow...book!) into Rhino (to
learn the damn thing!) with lots of mods to try out in the cyber world, by
then I hope to aquire X-plane too, to do some "test flying"!:)
As just mentioned I am "dream"-planning on a BD-4, modified with at least a
18"stretch, which should be no problem if started from scratch, besides the
BD-4 community is very active on the plane, ask Bob White! I do plan to
discuss every step on the BD-4 list!
Engine: Renesis based - something, probably turbo-equalized.
BD-4 is an excellent starter for "finacially challenged" builders,
........my kind of plane! :))
For me the BUILDING will be the target and hobby, though I do hope to get it
to fly some day, IF I get it started in the first place!
I make a living flying helicopters in a rather exciting environment, so the
plane would not be a means to get flying at all or cheaper than certified,
but a building hobby. Generally, once you fly helicopters, planes become
rather boring at the level I could afford them(C-152/172/182), besides the
first one has to be something where the whole family can come along -
Besides being cheap to start, a streched BD-4 fits this bill perfect!
Most likely I will start to play with rotaries long before I ever get near
to needing one for the BD, but I always can plug it into some old Mustang or
VW-bug and scare people on the road! ....or a boat maybe:))
Point is: It will be fun, however far I get and I do plan to involve my kids
a lot (hands-on education is still the best!), so maybe they fly it someday,
if I don't.
After BD-4, dreams are: RV-7, F1- Rocket ( with a Turbo 3-rotor!), Lancair
Legacy, Nexus Mustang, Midget Mustang, Berkut-style canard,
Atlantica-BWB (if it ever gets back on track),...........dreams are cheap!
Cheers,
Thomas Jakits
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