The problem is that a "conservative" crash load (according to the FAA) tends to be about half of what a person can survive. There's a reason why a significant number of people tend survive crashes...
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The problem is that a "conservative" crash load (according to the FAA) tends to be about half of what a person can survive. There's a reason why a significant number of people tend survive crashes...
....or to make the crash sites easier to find. There's a reason why they are known as "Ronsons*" in the aviation safety community. You just follow the almost trademarked pall of black smoke. That...
220 lbs is pretty light for a motorcycle.
Just a heads up but you do realize that most/some of the Part 23 standards are pretty low so far as the scale of survivable crashes since it's based...
Actually that wasn't my first thought. That would be "well there goes the entire useful load of most GA aircraft". ;)
The only safety question I have is: What is the load rating on the tiedown...
At this point in time, there is no practical viable option that is useful for the application you are talking about.
....and of people not learning to properly weld prior to building an aircraft....
It always amuses me when people who will take years to build an airplane complain about the 30 minutes it takes to sign out a rental car and unload their bags from a Vans or Cub clone as though it's...
No, I'm just thinking this through instead of just engaging in wishful daydreaming about how this has some manner of practical application.
Look at how frequently people have car accidents...
Dinner at the restaurant of your choosing in Oshkosh says that if that happens we see the GA mortality rate (adjusted for the increased number of flights and people involved) go through the roof. ...
Not really since that is the primary issue that keeps the pipe dream of a flying car non-viable. Well, that and the disconnect between the requirement to have it light enough to fly and yet has to...
If I hit the lottery, I wouldn't limit myself to some odd little contraption. I'd be finding myself the data plate off of a B-17 or B-29 and "restoring" one. Then again, I'd also like to build a...
Yeah, but then again, I wonder what the market really is for a high priced vehicle like that. That seems to be one of the major issues on the business side of the equation: those who are true...
The Pal-V is a very neat looking design (as opposed to the Terra-fugly-a which is just plain (plane?) ugly) but I can't help wonder how it would stand up in a collision with a "regular" car or G-d...