...ah PPE, Risk Assessments, COSHE, RIDDOR....


You must have been wearing a High Viz Jacket, Hard hat & boots and undertaken a tool box briefing or you would have been killed..

Ha ha. Loving the manually adjustable renewable resource chassis securing ram.

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G46 Update..
 

Christmas came early this year and the body has now been produced :faint:

My informant advises that the bonding of the body / chassis will take place shortly..

(...probably on the evening of the next full moon at the same time as a Chicken is devoured with a flagon or two of mead and a virgin is sacrificed upon the alter of the twin exhausts - er actually hold that last bit, I'll need the virgin myself when I'm re-wiring in order to sacrifice her to Lucas, The Prince of Darkness.)

So long as the body doesn't go on backwards.....

Nike55 - Great news. :cool:

I'm sure things will start to pick up quickly now.

Cheers, Paul. :)

Great news indeed, now come on, let's see a finished G46! :becky:

I get mine soon too!

How did you get your body home?

Will it fit on the back of a pick up truck?

So how are you going to mount the body onto your scooter donors? by some form of home made frame and then linking the scooters together for dual engine power?


This is a G46 build so it "could" happen! :)

Anything could happen - but I will have to ask Lancelot to do a couple of bits on the body before I arrange transport for the beast.

(Thinks: 'Now need to clear shed of two dead Land Rovers...')

Scooter? I've got Blackbird* in bits so could always fit the engine from that (or two).

(*Honda not Lockheed).

Hmm, SR71 powered Sammio, now there's an ambitious concept, and you could strap half a dozen Raytheon AIM9 motors to the sides for a bit of extra oomph away from the traffic lights.

aaaahh RATO.....

Erm, lost me on this one I'm afraid so I googled RATO - http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=rat...w=1366&bih=643

Still none the wiser...

JATO is an acronym for jet-fuel assisted take off. It is a system for helping overloaded aircraft into the air by providing additional thrust in the form of small rockets.

The term is used interchangeably with the (more specific) term RATO, for Rocket-Assisted Take Off (or, in RAF parlance, RATOG for Rocket-Assisted Take Off Gear).

JATO is an acronym for jet-fuel assisted take off. It is a system for helping overloaded aircraft into the air by providing additional thrust in the form of small rockets.

The term is used interchangeably with the (more specific) term RATO, for Rocket-Assisted Take Off (or, in RAF parlance, RATOG for Rocket-Assisted Take Off Gear).

i liked your rats though!

Ahh, makes sense now. Google didn't throw that up and none of the RAF aircraft I worked on ever had rocket assistance for take off, although the Tornados could have done with it to get them off the ground during the day in the middle east. :angel:

RATO - Helps fat birds fly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqAPRWMkuv8

Yip, it was the same for us in the Nimrod - even with 13,000 yard runway at sealevel in Iraq using power against brakes, we had to go with significantly less than max fuel just to make it off the ground....still it meant the sorties were shorter.

I remember one of my old engineers telling us about the JATO on the 8 sqn Shakletons - "4 turning, 2 burning" must have made the take off roll....interesting

I was on the Jag OCU at Lossiemouth from '82 to '86 working from the 'pan next to 8 Squadron's Shacks. Their ground crew tee shirts had the slogan 'eight screws are better than two blow jobs' if I recall. I enjoyed my time at Lossie even though it was a long way from anywhere else - I once drove for seventeen hours solid in the winter to get home to Essex to see my parents. I had a slightly different hairstyle then too :mullet: Happy days...

Ah.......nostalgia!

The '20,000 Rivets Flying in Close Formation', (AKA Avro Shackleton) had four Rolls Royce V12 Griffon engines (most RR piston engines were named after birds of prey - Kestrel, Vulture, Eagle, Merlin (No - not the wizard!), producing 1,960 hp (2,345 hp with water-methanol injection) and on the MR3 version two 2,700lb thrust Armstrong Siddeley Viper engines buried in the nacelles.

The Shackleton, when so configured, could fly on the two Vipers only. Its party piece at a Farnborough air show (or two) was to take off and fly a circuit returning with one engine feathered, then another circuit when a second engine was feathered, and so on until after the last circuit when the the aircraft returned over the airfield with all engines feathered, flying only on the Vipers. Much consternation at first from lovingly gullible crowd - probably only spoiled by a knowing 10 year old.

Jet Assisted Take Off is one thing but the solid fuel propellant Rocket Assisted Take Off is something else. Especially when it concerns a 'Zero Launch Length' F104 Starfighter! :angel:

http://www.militaryimages.net/photop...tarfighter.jpg

Ah yes, the flying coffin. The original design for the F104 included a downward firing ejection seat. Really useful given that most crashes happen on the runway. :angel: