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Hi Jamie, cool project, from one aircraft engineer to another , looks like your doin an excellent job. I play with metal stuff mainly, bit bigger though!! If i can help at all, give me a shout. Not sure where you are in uk tho. But good luck with the rest of the build. TC
 
Cheers for the offer....

Don't suppose you habitually throw away any AN hardware at all? Expensive stuff - would happily rescue anything destined for the bin :LOL:

Same goes for instruments - anything time expired etc.



Gillian and I are discussing what will follow the KR2... don't want to get involved with CofA's so we'll stay on a Permit. I seriously miss aerobatic capability from my younger years, but 4 seats would also be handy.

I've stuck between the beauty and agility of the Sequoia F8L Falco and the Vans RV10 next. I'm leaning towards the Falco.....

Who do you work for out of interest? I cut my teeth on homebuilts and before HSE became such a butt-ache used to tinker with Brymon's Dash-7s and BRAL's ATPs. That was when I first learned that when working with Skydrol hydraulic oil you wash your hands before going to the toilet :LOL:

Daddy's been an LAE since the early 70's, saw "action" in Iran then later with British Airways Helicopters and onto British International. After that he joined Brymon and he eventually evolved into the Base Manager for BACE until this year when he took on a Quality Manager role with and Engineering contractor for a few Icelandic companies.

He's been a PFA Inspector for years too, as he really enjoys working on aeroplanes. The PFA are happy for him to inspect mine which is a real bonus :D
 
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currently on Bae146/RJ's at stansted but have also played with choppers and the big boys, 747-400,TriStars DC10's that sort of stuff. Can get some gash AN stuff tho most of it is NAS or metric equivalent, not in abundance tho. If u get stuck try e-bay youll be amazed at what u can pick up without certs. Whereabouts are you anyway? TC
 
Jamie's in that bit of the UK which requires carrier pigeons in skirts to transmit and delivery TCP/IP packets :-D

Last time I went there it took me six hours to drive it at silly speed.
 
Aberdeen :wink:

My father used to nick structural adhesives etc all the time for me - bit difficult for him now though :(

There goes most of my supply chain :LOL:

I go to Duxford pretty much every summer though - maybe see you there some year? :) We met up with Manos (Flamenco Assassin) this year which was really great as we'd been robbed the night before and were feeling awful..... bloody pikey car thieves even stole Gill's sewing :?
 
Umm, can we have less talk of "oiling Rod up" and having him "relieve himself"?

Too bufty for me.
 
Alright - this'll change the tone in the direction I intended.....


Skydrol is corrosive. You use barrier cream when working with it to save irritation to the hands......

Now go to the toilet and forget to wash your hands before unzipping :eek: :eek: :eek:

It's a lesson you don't forget quickly that's for sure :LOL:
 
Dead right. Skydrol contains phosphoric acid, doesnt freeze except below -65c and is lethal. Also barrier cream will NOT stop Skydrol indefinitely and is not a relaible deterrant, so Skydrol resistant gloves should be worn. Horrible stuff to be avoided like the plague.

RAF riggers used to have t-shirts which said "Riggers wash their hands BEFORE going to the toilet". OM15 (mineral based hydraulic fluid) is bad enough. You don't ever want to see a pic of a bloke with dermatitus around his nutz!
 
Gill says if I let her have a Toyota instead of a VW I can build a Falco next.....

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I think these photos of the 3 fatalities out of the first 30 built have been putting her off a bit though :eek:
Not an aeroplane of the inexperienced.... Just as well it would take me about 15 years to fund and build it....

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Sobering thought? Many homebuilders (and in America in particular) have a mentality that oen must always test fly their own aeroplane.
Peer pressure comes in forms like "Jeez thats like chasing a girl for 10 years then lettin' someone else **** her!".

Builders usually haven't done much flying recently (neither time nor money for both), have probably never flown THAT type of aeroplane before either and completely lack the experience to handle worsening situations effectively.

You get airborne, you notice that the airspeed indicator is giving faulty readings. Meanwhile a rigging fault is giving the aeroplane a noticeable one-wing-heavy tendancy, requiring a hefty stick input. The oil temperature is rising fast. You're at 500 feet just crossing the end of the runway. The oil temp is in the red. Smoke from under the instrument panel - Electrical fire! The engine quits.
Who ought to be in the plane at that time? A frantic homebuilder with rusty skills desperate to save his life's work? Or a guy in his late 50's, flying all his life, done many test flights before and has suffered every problem you can imagine?


Personally I don't want to be one of the 3 photos above - hence why someone else is spending the night with my "bride" on the wedding night :eek:

I'm going to have my work cut out as it is with an aeroplane I do not know and ahve never flown before - the very least I can do for myself is feel confident that everything works properly! :eek:
 
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The last thing you wanna be messin with is a bitch of an aeroplane with attitude!!!! It makes PMS look like a bug on ya neck!!! Good decision, let the pros break her in, after all you wouldnt jump on a wild stallion would you!!!
So your in sweaty land...... mmmm makes getting them bumpers a bit testy... but leave it with me cheers TC
 
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Had an experience with skydrol a while back.....wasnt working with it but one of the guys asked me to help him lift something....bout an hour later went to the loo.......and you guessed it as soon as i left the khazi i was straight back in again washing it off with bloody soap to neutralise it!!!!!!! NOT NICE
 
Jamie,

Just seen the pics.

Amazing mate! :D

Puts my car into perspective! :eek:

Keep up the good work!


Iain
 
Jamie "hence why someone else is spending the night with my "bride" on the wedding night"

Can I come to the wedding!

Cyrano "Had an experience with skydrol a while back.....wasnt working with it but one of the guys asked me to help him lift something....bout an hour later went to the loo.......and you guessed it as soon as i left the khazi i was straight back in again washing it off with bloody soap to neutralise it!!!!!!! NOT NICE"

Its yours and you can wash it as fast as you like! I've heard some excuses............
 
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Yep he's knows what I'm talking about :LOL:


Iain - nonsense - aeroplanes are MUCH simpler than cars - hardly any moving parts :LOL: Your Cobra still takes the biscuit as the bigger task out of the two :wink:
 
jamie_duff said:
Skydrol is corrosive. You use barrier cream when working with it to save irritation to the hands......
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we use it everyday in work, you should see the PPE that the lads DON'T wear!!!! apparently safety glasses and nitrile gloves are ok :eek:

i've had it soak through a pair of overalls over the top of tracksuit bottoms, had to have a nice cold bath when i got home (got it on me at the end of the shift) and had a nice 'surface' burn about the size of two hands on my thigh for a few days.

wightwizard said:
OM15 (mineral based hydraulic fluid) is bad enough. You don't ever want to see a pic of a bloke with dermatitus around his nutz!
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seen it!! horrible fluid, sticky as anything especially when its leaked all down the side of a Lynx
 
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