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 Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:25 pm Post subject: Wild flights... 22 hr trip in an LSA over the Atlantic... |
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Hey there all,
I posted something similar to what I will write now but it does not seem to have come through. Two mates of mine will attempt (and hopefully complete) a flight across the Atlantic, from Conakry, Guinea to Belem, Brazil tomorrow evening. They are flying an aircraft called the ‘Sling’ that they designed and built here in South Africa; to be sold as a light sport kit. The aircraft is a low wing 2 seater with a 912 Rotax engine and is specially modified so that the whole leading edge of each wing is a fuel tank (divided into 6 tanks), carrying 450 litres of fuel. Tomorrow evening their flight will use 440 litres…. Its going to be a narrow thing.
The aircraft has a modified Z-16 diagram that I used from Bob’s (thank you!) lists/diagrams. In the aircraft there are 2 MGL Voyagers, a stormscope, transponder, Garmin SL30 Nav/ Comm radio, auto pilots, and bits and pieces including a satellite linked GPS tracker so that we can follow their progress. This last Saturday they took off from near Johannesburg here in South Africa and flew non-stop for 20 hours to reach Sao Tome off the west African coast, just south of Nigeria. I was with them when James, one of the pilots, filed an unbelievable flight plan for an LSA aircraft. He had to repeat and confirm the distances and aircraft type several times- and explain this to the disbelieving official at the other end.
If you’re curious and would like to see more have a look at http://www.airplanefactory.co.za/world/default.asp
You will be able to track their flight across the Atlantic tomorrow if all goes well, and for those of you going to Oshkosh, they’ll be there.
Bob, I’ve read your arguments and as an electrical engineer they made a lot of sense; I used your suggestions and designs in this aircraft and so far it has worked well and I am sure that it will continue to do so. Here’s hoping that my mates make it across the pond!
Jay from South Africa
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| Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 10:08 pm Post subject: Wild flights... 22 hr trip in an LSA over the Atlantic... |
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Hey there all,
I posted something similar to what I will write now but it does not seem to
have come through. Two mates of mine will attempt (and hopefully complete)
a flight across the Atlantic, from Conakry, Guinea to Belem, Brazil this
evening. They are flying an aircraft called the ‘Sling’ that they designed
and built here in South Africa; to be sold as a light sport kit. The
aircraft is a low wing 2 seater with a 912 Rotax engine and is specially
modified so that the whole leading edge of each wing is a fuel tank (divided
into 6 tanks), carrying 450 litres of fuel. This evening their flight will
use 440 litres…. Its going to be a narrow thing.
The aircraft has a modified Z-16 diagram that I used from Bob’s (thank you!)
lists/diagrams. In the aircraft there are 2 MGL Voyagers, a stormscope,
transponder, Garmin SL30 Nav/ Comm radio, auto pilots, and bits and pieces
including a satellite linked GPS tracker so that we can follow their
progress. This last Saturday they took off from near Johannesburg here in
South Africa and flew non-stop for 20 hours to reach Sao Tome off the west
African coast, just south of Nigeria. I was with them when James, one of
the pilots, filed an unbelievable flight plan for an LSA aircraft. He had
to repeat and confirm the distances and aircraft type several times- and
explain this to the disbelieving official at the other end.
If you’re curious and would like to see more have a look at
http://www.airplanefactory.co.za/world/default.asp
You will be able to track their flight across the Atlantic tomorrow if all
goes well, and for those of you going to Oshkosh, they’ll be there.
Bob, I’ve read your arguments and as an electrical engineer they made a lot
of sense; I used your suggestions and designs in this aircraft and so far it
has worked well and I am sure that it will continue to do so. Here’s hoping
that my mates make it across the pond!
Jay from South Africa
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| Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:36 pm Post subject: Wild flights... 22 hr trip in an LSA over the Atlantic... |
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Tell 'em CONGRATULATIONS! And thanks for letting us know. Hope they have a
safe trip the rest of the way to Oshkosh.
Bob Taylor
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jay(at)horriblehyde.com
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| Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:56 am Post subject: Wild flights... 22 hr trip in an LSA over the Atlantic... |
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Hey there everyone,
My apologies for the multiple posts on this; my webmail service and email
server was arbitrarily placing mails into a junk folder that was not
accessed by the POP3 download so I was not seeing any replies and was
getting very frustrated!
For your interest here is a bit from a post that I made on another forum.
Thanks to all of you who have sent messages of congratulations!
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I was also most pleased to hear that the storm scope worked well- the
antenna for that (very complex with a whole bunch of individually screened
twisted pairs in an overall screened cable) was wired one bitterly cold
evening at 3am in the Springs hanger as the guys bashed and moved the
airframe around getting the wings installed!
The aircraft has an unusual fitting as well- a hooter; this was Mikes idea
which he thought might help to scare birds away when flying low level near
the coast. That was wired up that same evening a couple of hours earlier -
Mike was under the aircraft on his back and the guys were trying to
manoeuvre the wing into its slot (extra layers of paint was making this
difficult and they had to keep removing it and sand paint away...). Without
thinking I switched the DC Master on and pressed the hooter button. Mike
must have been concentrating fiercely because he shot out and up from under
the aircraft yelling 'yah, yah, yaaaah!' He had got one heck of a fright.
It provided a laugh and a slight warm up for all of us. 
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Jay Hyde
HH Enterprises
Aircraft Manufacture, Engineering and Flying
jay(at)horriblehyde.com
Mobile phone: 083 300 8675
International: +27 83 300 8675
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