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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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