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Old August 24th 03, 04:44 AM
Juan E Jimenez
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"Badwater Bill" wrote in message
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Yeah, don't hold your breath. Old Walt here will tell you about all
the days he spent flying C-130's with Air America....wonder how much
of that is bull **** or shinola?


Maybe a mixture of both.

To answer your question about what I've been doing, I built a hangar
here at the house that's 36 x 36, has an 18 foot lectric door on the
front that opens to 10' 6" so I can get an R-22 in it. I put a
restroom in it so I don't have to hang my dick out the door on a tree
to pee, nor do any ladies that might need to use the john. I also put
an LVL beam across the thing paralleling the trusses so I can hoist
12,000 pounds of any ****ing thing I deem hoistable to the 10 foot
ceilings. I've got a great air compressor in there and lots of bench
space I built along two walls. I'm in the process of bolting down all
my reloading equipment (presses) so I can reload my 50 Cal. Grizzly
rounds with tracer ammo and such, plus my Mini-14's with the 223
rounds and the 44 mag pistola rounds...you know, all the toys most men
have.


Holy ****. You've been busy! All you need now is a couple of gunner windows
on the sides and a turret on the top.

But the coolest thing I've just done is bolt a car starter motor and
ring gear to my Snobird gyroscope so I can sit in the seat and spin up
the rotor blades to autorotation speed. I used to have to do that by
hand, now it just drains one motorcycle battery completely to do it.
I spun it up today in fact. Then I stopped it and tried to spin it up
again (in zero wind conditions). Didn't work. The Voltage on the
battery was down to 4 Volts during the second spin up.


I gather the engine on the gyro has no generator? I don't know squate about
gyros, so I don't know what the hell's a "Snobird." I tried to hover an R22.
Once. The entire goddamn flight school was in tears. I want to try it again
but I gotta find some other place to do it.

All I need is a bigger and heavier battery, but that means I have to
lose about another 10 pounds off my big fat gut to compensate for it.


What battery do you have in there now?

Just have to bite the big one and stop eating pizza and drinking
Newcastle beer.


I stopped eating crap after spending three weeks in the hospital with my
side cut open so the docs could shuttle me back and forth to the OR to stuff
me full of gauze after my pancreas went south. Learned my lesson real quick.


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Old August 26th 03, 12:14 AM
Badwater Bill
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battery was down to 4 Volts during the second spin up.

I gather the engine on the gyro has no generator? I don't know squate about
gyros, so I don't know what the hell's a "Snobird." I tried to hover an R22.
Once. The entire goddamn flight school was in tears. I want to try it again
but I gotta find some other place to do it.


Nah, it has a lighing coil with a diode on it so you can actually tap
off it and charge the battery back up. It works okay.


All I need is a bigger and heavier battery, but that means I have to
lose about another 10 pounds off my big fat gut to compensate for it.


What battery do you have in there now?


A little motorcycle battery from Walmart. Real airworthy eh? Ha Ha

Just have to bite the big one and stop eating pizza and drinking
Newcastle beer.


I stopped eating crap after spending three weeks in the hospital with my
side cut open so the docs could shuttle me back and forth to the OR to stuff
me full of gauze after my pancreas went south. Learned my lesson real quick.


Jesus Christ, are you okay? Damn, I hope that never happens again.

Happy Skies.

BWB


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Old August 26th 03, 09:07 PM
Juan E Jimenez
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"Badwater Bill" wrote in message
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Nah, it has a lighing coil with a diode on it so you can actually tap
off it and charge the battery back up. It works okay.


Hmm... Ok, if you say so.,

A little motorcycle battery from Walmart. Real airworthy eh? Ha Ha


Texas Battery Co. has a small 12v 12a sealed battery that works great for
these applications. I put four of them into the redesign of the systems on
Bob Bishop's -5J's. They work great. If I remember correctly they were the
Guardian DG12-12's.

Jesus Christ, are you okay? Damn, I hope that never happens again.


I am now, but boy did I get intimate with my morphine pump. I too hope it
never happens again.


 




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