Thank you, Peter, for your kind remarks yet again.
Thank you also for your link to Jim Cresswell's Flitzer Z-21 - that looks absolutely wonderful. Have you seen this machine yourself?
Being a keen mechanic (I've done all the work on my Austin Ten myself with the exception of repairing the ends of the front axle prior to fitting new king-pins - the holes in the ends of the axle had "ovalled" and needed machining out and new sleeves fitting) and also being keen on woodwork, welding and so on, I should love to build one of these machines. Whether I should like to fly one, I am not so sure. As I wrote in my note, if you look for the "Druine" on Google, there are lists of various incidents where these machines fell out of the sky: the ones I most read about were due to carburettor icing which was actually something I was plagued with in the colder months with my own VW Beetle motorcar - if it happens to a carburettor in the confined (and relatively warm) engine bay of a car, it's much more likely to happen in the exposed front end of an aeroplane.
Perhaps this could be another project for my retirement. Would you like to be my first test-pilot?
Kind Regards,
John. |
United Kingdom
Druine D.31 Turbulent (10)
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