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1. 02:41 AM - ZU CTG First Flight (mike toft)
2. 02:57 AM - Re: ZU CTG First Flight (ivor.phillips)
3. 03:53 AM - Re: To all the wives... (R.C.Harrison)
4. 03:56 AM - Re: ZU CTG First Flight (R.C.Harrison)
5. 04:38 AM - Re: To all the wives... (Runnymede73@aol.com)
6. 11:38 AM - Monster Jaffa (Richard)
7. 12:26 PM - Re: eyeball vents (Ami McFadyean)
8. 01:02 PM - Re: To all the wives... (Rowland Carson)
9. 01:02 PM - Re: ZU CTG First Flight (Rowland Carson)
10. 04:02 PM - Re: Monster Jaffa (Rocketman)
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| Subject: | ZU CTG First Flight |
--> Europa-List message posted by: "mike toft" <watervet@mweb.co.za>
Hi All,
At last the cloud broke, the test pilot was available, and ZU-
CTG took to the South African skies at 9 am yesterday - she is a TriGear with the
Airmaster / 914 combination and in the words of the test pilot - Anthony McHale
- " she flies like a dream" - 20 minutes test flight produced nothing but
praise for the europa from our 3000 hour test pilot and 1 hour later I was in
the left seat, passed the conversion test and off on my first of 25 hours proving
flight. What a dream come true - nothing said previously can prepare you
for the ultimate thrill and pride in your airplane as you take off in your creation
for the first time - I will post all the data soon as I can scrape myself
off cloud 9
Regards
Mike toft
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| Subject: | Re: ZU CTG First Flight |
--> Europa-List message posted by: "ivor.phillips" <ivor.phillips@ntlworld.com>
> At last the cloud broke, the test pilot was available, and ZU-
> CTG took to the South African skies at 9 am yesterday - she is a TriGear
with the Airmaster / 914 combination and in the words of the test pilot -
Anthony McHale - " she flies like a dream" - 20 minutes test flight produced
nothing but praise for the europa from our 3000 hour test pilot and 1 hour
later I was in the left seat, passed the conversion test and off on my first
of 25 hours proving flight. What a dream come true - nothing said previously
can prepare you for the ultimate thrill and pride in your airplane as you
take off in your creation for the first time - I will post all the data soon
as I can scrape myself off cloud 9
Congratulations on a job well done,
It gives us poor souls still building, somththing to strive for,
Ivor Phillips
XS486
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| Subject: | Re: To all the wives... |
--> Europa-List message posted by: "R.C.Harrison" <ptag.dev@ukonline.co.uk>
Hi! Robin.
You don't happen to have a Sister do you?!
Welcome to the Europa Saga.
You just may be a little optimistic reckoning on two years!
But you can fly with me anytime, since my wife Jan watched me build G-PTAG
over four years and has only sat in it in the garage ....... with the garage
door firmly closed inspite of it approaching its fourth season flying !
Good Luck with the build the Europa Forum is a mine of help and information.
Regards
Bob Harrison G-PTAG Europa 337 MKI (Trike/Mono Convertible) /Jabiru 3300
(458 Hours)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob" <rob@evergreensecurity.com>
Subject: Europa-List: To all the wives...
> --> Europa-List message posted by: "Rob" <rob@evergreensecurity.com>
>
> To all the wives..
>
> Okay I need to introduce myself My name is Robin wife of the newest europa
> owner. I told my husband Rob that he couldn't buy a rotorway so we have
> decided on a Europa Tri-gear. So please tell me when the glassy eyed
glazed
> over look goes away..Ha ha just kidding I am very excited to be involved
> with Robs dream. I guess I need to learn how to build a website.. So see
> you all in the air.. in a couple years..
>
> P.S. How many of you wives have your pilots license and do your husbands
> let you fly????
>
>
> Talk to you all soon.
>
> Robin
>
> The number 1 sander in the henderson garage (oops I mean HANGER)
>
> bye
>
>
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| Subject: | Re: ZU CTG First Flight |
--> Europa-List message posted by: "R.C.Harrison" <ptag.dev@ukonline.co.uk>
Well Done! Mike.
Regards
Bob Harrison G-PTAG Europa 337 MKI/Jabiru 3300
----- Original Message -----
From: "mike toft" <watervet@mweb.co.za>
Subject: Europa-List: ZU CTG First Flight
> --> Europa-List message posted by: "mike toft" <watervet@mweb.co.za>
>
> Hi All,
>
> At last the cloud broke, the test pilot was available, and ZU-
> CTG took to the South African skies at 9 am yesterday - she is a TriGear
with the Airmaster / 914 combination and in the words of the test pilot -
Anthony McHale - " she flies like a dream" - 20 minutes test flight produced
nothing but praise for the europa from our 3000 hour test pilot and 1 hour
later I was in the left seat, passed the conversion test and off on my first
of 25 hours proving flight. What a dream come true - nothing said previously
can prepare you for the ultimate thrill and pride in your airplane as you
take off in your creation for the first time - I will post all the data soon
as I can scrape myself off cloud 9
>
> Regards
> Mike toft
>
>
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| Subject: | Re: To all the wives... |
--> Europa-List message posted by: Runnymede73@aol.com
its hangar not hanger
remember the old RAF term
"hangers coats" "hangars flying" get it ?
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--> Europa-List message posted by: "Richard" <riddon@btinternet.com>
I am in the process of painting the bits for a speed kit for my Tri Gear
using the Europa supplied paint kit. It is around 12 months since I
painted the rest of the plane which went very well. I have all the
parts primed with the grey (acrylic / water based) spray primer/filler
and have just been trying to spray the barrier primer (isocyanate). The
result I have got is most peculiar. The finish has come out like giant
orange peel. Suspecting that I had got some contamination on the surface
I have tried scrubbing the parts with detergent and rinsing off but the
same thing is still happening.
I checked the dates on the paint. The primer is still just within date
but the hardener is a couple of months past. Could this be the problem
or has anyone else had a similar occurrence and if so, how could I
overcome it?
Richard Iddon. G-RIXS (Puzzled painter)
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| Subject: | Re: eyeball vents |
--> Europa-List message posted by: "Ami McFadyean" <ami@mcfadyean.freeserve.co.uk>
Recipe for cheap lightweight swivelling eyeball vents:
Bore a hole in the front and back of a ping-pong ball (or table tennis ball
if you prefer) and redux-in a short length of close-fitting tube, flush at
the 'rear' and protruding as much as desired at the 'front' of the ball.
The holes in the ball can be snipped out with scissors, but finish with a
cone-shaped grindstone, which melts the edges slightly and prevents splits.
It the tube is centred off diametric axis, then the vent will have a greater
range of angular adjustment.
The socket depends on what you are attaching to. In my case it was a 1" pipe
(the air exit end of the NACA duct molding). So the socket was laid-up over
a male mold comprising a 1" stub of blue foam (cut with a cork borer) glued
to another ping-pong ball, which is later scrapped as the lay-up is
subsequently cut off.
The socket is axially slit into two halves. These two halves are then held
together onto the 'pipe' at the rear of the NACA duct by two O-rings; add
more or smaller O-rings if a stiffer rotation is needed.
The advantage of this arrangement is that the whole assembly will knock off
in an accident; safety is further allowed for by a ring of PVC foam bonded
to the front edge of the protruding tube; so that it doesn't core-out your
knee caps in a shunt.
The vents are turned on and off by means of the adjustable flap on the NACA
duct; however, the screw adjustment on mine only closes the NACA flap and
won't open it; a spring or similar is needed. But if both are turned off
then the cockpit windows steam up! Alternately, the vents can be turned to
deflect the blast of air up the side of the cockpit.
The blast from the 1" tube is a bit too vigorous and I am now trying a 3/4"
tube, which also allows a greater angular range of adjustment.
Duncan McF.
> At 2004 03 14 17:44 +0000 Ami McFadyean wrote:
>
> >make your own out of a
> >ping-pong ball and a bit of the 1" tube left over from the aileron push
rod.
> >Mine weigh 12 grammes each
>
> Duncan - more info, please! Do yours swivel, and if so how did you
> make the bearing for the table-tennis ball? Do yours turn off & on,
> and if so, how?
> regards
> Rowland
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| Subject: | Re: To all the wives... |
--> Europa-List message posted by: Rowland Carson <rowil@clara.net>
At 2004 03 15 14:57 -0800 Rob wrote:
>How many of you wives have your pilots license and do your husbands
>let you fly????
Robin - I'm not sure if either of them are on the e-mail list at
present (and maybe they're too modest to shout about it anyway) but
there are at least 2 female Europa builders: Liz Utzig Wallace in USA
and Edith Dolder (now flying) in Switzerland. I understand that Liz's
husband has to put up with her bringing aeroplane parts (a fuselage,
f'rinstance) into the living room ...
regards
Rowland
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| Rowland Carson Europa Club Membership Secretary - email for info!
| Europa 435 G-ROWI (660 hours building) PFA #16532
| e-mail <memsec@europaclub.org.uk> website <www.europaclub.org.uk>
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| Subject: | Re: ZU CTG First Flight |
--> Europa-List message posted by: Rowland Carson <rowil@clara.net>
At 2004 03 16 12:40 +0200 mike toft wrote:
>ZU-
>CTG took to the South African skies at 9 am yesterday
Mike - congratulations and many happy landings in the future. For the
record, what is the empty weight, and what field did the first flight
take place from?
Don't forget to give me feedback on your hours occasionally for the
fleet hours table.
regards
Rowland
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| Rowland Carson Europa Club Membership Secretary - email for info!
| Europa 435 G-ROWI (660 hours building) PFA #16532
| e-mail <memsec@europaclub.org.uk> website <www.europaclub.org.uk>
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| Subject: | Re: Monster Jaffa |
--> Europa-List message posted by: Rocketman <topglock@cox.net>
Richard wrote:
>--> Europa-List message posted by: "Richard" <riddon@btinternet.com>
>
>I am in the process of painting the bits for a speed kit for my Tri Gear
>using the Europa supplied paint kit. It is around 12 months since I
>painted the rest of the plane which went very well. I have all the
>parts primed with the grey (acrylic / water based) spray primer/filler
>and have just been trying to spray the barrier primer (isocyanate). The
>result I have got is most peculiar. The finish has come out like giant
>orange peel. Suspecting that I had got some contamination on the surface
>I have tried scrubbing the parts with detergent and rinsing off but the
>same thing is still happening.
>
>I checked the dates on the paint. The primer is still just within date
>but the hardener is a couple of months past. Could this be the problem
>or has anyone else had a similar occurrence and if so, how could I
>overcome it?
>
>Richard Iddon. G-RIXS (Puzzled painter)
>
>
>
Richard. Massive orange peel is usually attributed to thick paint. Try
thinning it out more and let us know how it worked out. You might also
consider a retarder, if the weather is hot and humid...
Jeff
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