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Badwater Bill wrote:
Mr. J.Muretta did what I would call a overview article. Not wanting to carry on but if you or your friends are under 200 lbs and want to fly in the plane we offer to have you bring your own GPS and come fly with us anytime so you may draw your own conclusions. Jess Meyers Belted Air Power That's a bummer. I still weight 225, although I'm down from 235 and working towards 210. I don't think I'll ever see 200 again... :-( Matt |
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On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 16:55:41 -0400, Matt Whiting
wrote: Badwater Bill wrote: Mr. J.Muretta did what I would call a overview article. Not wanting to carry on but if you or your friends are under 200 lbs and want to fly in the plane we offer to have you bring your own GPS and come fly with us anytime so you may draw your own conclusions. Jess Meyers Belted Air Power That's a bummer. I still weight 225, although I'm down from 235 and working towards 210. I don't think I'll ever see 200 again... :-( Matt Ahh, don't worry about it Matt. Come in the late autumn and they'll download some fuel so you can fit your fat ass into it. My fat ass test flew it for a long time and I weighed 230 when I did it. In fact I talked with Jess last night and I think I'm going back on the insurance. I'll take you for a ride when you come. During flight-test, when I needed a data collector, I took Tom Jones. Tom is a giant man in spirit but only weighs about 130 or so (that's why the puke won so many motorcycle races in the olden days). In fact Bill Harold and Tom are about the same size. Dr. Harold or Tom easily fit into the thing with my gelatinous, bloated, fat ass in the left seat. I'm sure that you'll fit fine. Come on over here when the temps go back down and we'll get you up even if I have to fly it. Now, that's a concept. Here's the question: Are YOU willing to fly with BWB as PIC? Do you have the guts? Do you have the stamina? Hell, I might go berserk and take you to Miami on a test flight....or maybe Costa Rica. Can you accept what might happen to you? Are you The Man? Only kidding. I think you are serious and you should examine this firewall forward. I'll tell you one thing however, don't change any of it. Build it just like Jess and Tom and Bill tell you to build it. If you are a tinker-er and you want to screw with things, this is not it. IF you build it as they tell you to build it, most likely it will work fine. Don't modify anything. Go by the plans. They've spent years perfecting all this stuff. Don't put your opinion into the loop. I say this because we've seen the whole spectrum of builders. I talked with a guy today who's helping me with my Legacy. He told me he overheard a conversation at Osh last year when a builder cornered Burt Rutan and Mike Melville between booths as they were going to lunch. The guy asked his question of them both and Burt shook his head no, "Build it exactly by the plans." Then the guy says, "But if I cut this piece and do that what will happen?" Burt said, "Don't do that. Build it by the plans." The guy came back with another question, sliding around the first question with another concept and Burt said, "Build is EXACTLY as the plans say to build it." Then the guy stopped and thought for a moment and had another come back, "What if I cut the skin and put in some foam and then E-glass it to conform....." Mike jumped in at that point and said, "Build it exactly as the plans say to build it." Then both Burt and Mike walked away knowing they had an idiot on their hands. Tom Jones heard Burt say to another individual, "Look you can do anything you want to do in this category and go fly it. However, if you modify it in any way that is not in accordance with the plans, then it's YOURS, it's not my design." I'm in a good mood tonight and I'm sort of philosophical while I'm in this "Good" mood, so I'm going to give you guys some advice. Don't ever modify anything from the plans if you build a kit or a plans-built airplane. You don't know what the designer has done to keep weight to a minimum and allow maximum strength for given part, like a wing or a tail, etc. Don't modify anything. It's all been CAD-CAM designed by computers and you don't have the thousands of dollars (or hours) available to you to check all the scenarios of your modification. Another thing. If you strengthen a certain area you transfer load and stress to that area. That is complicated to explain but let me try just briefly. If you fix a 6 foot 1 inch diameter balsa-wood dowel to a bench by clamping it's end to the bench, you might be able to put a 1pound weight out at the other end and the thing will flex and bow and carry that load. This is because you are using the entire piece to carry that load. If you clamp the same piece of wood so that only 4 inches protrude from the bench and you put a 1 pound weight on it, it will shear off at the point where it meets the bench. This is what happens when you abitrarily strengthen a certain area of a wing or any other part of an airplane. You concentrate the loads to that area. Think of it this way: A willow bends in the wind. If you tie it down a foot from the top of a branch, the wind might shear if off. So, in building a homebuilt airplane, all this comes into play. Don't second-guess what the computer calcs have done. Don't shore up one area because YOU think it's weak there. It may be designed to be weak at that position. Harmonics is another issue. If you change things, you change the resonance frequencies of the structure. That's the last thing you would ever want to do. So, BWB's advice for the day it DON'T CHANGE A ****ING THING. Build the thing exactly like the designer and kit manufacturer tells you to build it. After you build 50 of them then you might have a right to have some input. BWB |
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Badwater Bill wrote:
Ahh, don't worry about it Matt. Come in the late autumn and they'll download some fuel so you can fit your fat ass into it. My fat ass test flew it for a long time and I weighed 230 when I did it. In fact I talked with Jess last night and I think I'm going back on the insurance. I'll take you for a ride when you come. During flight-test, when I needed a data collector, I took Tom Jones. Tom is a giant man in spirit but only weighs about 130 or so (that's why the puke won so many motorcycle races in the olden days). In fact Bill Harold and Tom are about the same size. Dr. Harold or Tom easily fit into the thing with my gelatinous, bloated, fat ass in the left seat. I'm sure that you'll fit fine. I fit in the RV-6 demonstrator at Van's when I visited the factory several years back. It isn't size that is the issue, it is weight. I'm fairly muscular (paid my way through engineering school working as a logger ... I'm not kidding!). I'm a fairly compact 225! :-) Come on over here when the temps go back down and we'll get you up even if I have to fly it. Now, that's a concept. Here's the question: Are YOU willing to fly with BWB as PIC? Do you have the guts? Do you have the stamina? Hell, I might go berserk and take you to Miami on a test flight....or maybe Costa Rica. Can you accept what might happen to you? Are you The Man? Are you willing to fly with a card carrying NRA life member with a CC permit who may be armed at any given time? :-) Only kidding. I think you are serious and you should examine this firewall forward. I'll tell you one thing however, don't change any of it. Build it just like Jess and Tom and Bill tell you to build it. If you are a tinker-er and you want to screw with things, this is not it. IF you build it as they tell you to build it, most likely it will work fine. Don't modify anything. Go by the plans. They've spent years perfecting all this stuff. Don't put your opinion into the loop. Likewise. I am serious, but as I mentioned earlier, I won't be starting for a few more years. I built a fairly expensive house four years ago right before my company tanked (I work for a telecomm company) and my stock went from $120/share to $1.60, and I now have a large mortgage to pay off and looming college bills. Matt |
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you? Are you The Man?
Are you willing to fly with a card carrying NRA life member with a CC permit who may be armed at any given time? :-) I"m a lifetime member of the NRA myself. Bring the guns with you. I'll carry my hogleg too. Only kidding. I think you are serious and you should examine this firewall forward. I'll tell you one thing however, don't change any of it. Build it just like Jess and Tom and Bill tell you to build it. If you are a tinker-er and you want to screw with things, this is not it. IF you build it as they tell you to build it, most likely it will work fine. Don't modify anything. Go by the plans. They've spent years perfecting all this stuff. Don't put your opinion into the loop. Likewise. I am serious, but as I mentioned earlier, I won't be starting for a few more years. I built a fairly expensive house four years ago right before my company tanked (I work for a telecomm company) and my stock went from $120/share to $1.60, and I now have a large mortgage to pay off and looming college bills. Matt ****, Sorry to hear that. When you want a ride, just come over anyway. I think Jess may just put me back on the insurance so I can demo the thing. Come on over anytime once that happens. BWB |
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(Badwater Bill) wrote in message .. .
Jess uses AOL and can't post to the ng easily. He can, however, read the posts. He just wrote this to me over email and asked that I pass it on to this group. Subject: Letter to Corky Scott To: Bill, a letter I sent to Corky this evening ----Jess __________________________________________________ ___ Mr. Scott, my name is Jess Meyers of Belted Air. I understand all of the trashing both ways. We bought the project from Glenn Smith and Bill was flying it. Our insurance could not afford two pilots at the time. Bill's valid points were taken, corrections made, and a long test period was carried out. We did have sprockets that were broached improperly, the units recalled. At the same time Gates belt factory had traced problems, if you can believe this, to people sweating or infusing a saline solution into the belt matrix. We have since switched manufacturer's. Mr. Phillips is one of a kind, and I'll be the first to admit that I have questioned a lot of his judgment. We are still out on some things but all in all he is an honest person. You don't have to guess where you are with him. Please don't get upset with some of his rantings. His wife did a very good job of photography for the Kitplanes article, and when the air to air shoot was scheduled for the article his father passed away and it became unavailable. Mr. J.Muretta did what I would call a overview article. Not wanting to carry on but if you or your friends are under 200 lbs and want to fly in the plane we offer to have you bring your own GPS and come fly with us anytime so you may draw your own conclusions. Jess Meyers Belted Air Power Jess, Tom and Bill are three of the most honest guys in the Homebuild business. I am running one of their redrives on my Zenith 801 and putting about twice the power through it they intended it to take. I did have a few quirks in the early going but the PSRU is well designed and bulletproof. I would not hesitate to use another one in a new york minute. Ben Haas N801BH. |
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