We are back in bussiness again! Johan, back from holiday and some of the other projects that has been eating time, we will sort the last of the heat issues under the cowling and then we can start the conversion (^^) (^^) It has been a year since we started with this project, I have learned a lot (pa...

Geluk ou Splinter, geniet die gyro!

Veilig vlieg!

Hi Dave

2 for me and am certain the guys at Wagtail would appreciate a few as well.
Make it 6 in total.

Thank you

Hi Jeantree Johan is happy with the progress, he says the UFO does 90mph with no effort. No funny behaviour like the submarine rudder it had on previously. During a flight test on Wednesday afternoon, Johan did a power off landing, and had to use all left rudder to keep the gyro in a straight line, ...

With the Gariep flyin, the UFO had to fall in the back of the que. With the first test, the prop wash just pushed the tail to the left and the gyro ran of the runway to the right . After setting the rudder position, the ground run was a lot better, but we needed more adjustment on the cable. Johan w...

Low Level wrote:a 3 min slot, we're going on to almost a 4 hr take-off session.

Maybe some of us should leave on Monday. As far as I know, staying over an extra night
is possible.

Landing on Friday might be fun as well, gyro's coming in from all over the country.

It is the world record, we can do it

With water and oil temperatures under control, we had some progress in the right direction. Johan flew it, then loaded some weight until he had an extra 80kg, to simulate a pax. The gyro became more unstable as it got heavier during flight. With the last landing, it was quite visible there was a wre...

Ai ja jai

Hi Crashtestdummy Let me know if you need another reduction drive for the subaru motor Thank you, we are sorted with the reduction drive. PS the internal structure of the block with water channels on the 2.5 are not as strong (less stiffners) as that of the 2L turbo thats why they dont work so well ...

Congratulations Len.

With your experience it can only be a success!

Can not believe it is Friday again, and Gariep is coming closer fast! Pierre and his lovely wife Sandy popped into Morningstar yesterday to say hi! It was nice to put a face to the name MPL-pilot. Hope the UFO is ready and happy before Gariep. Look forward to seeing it there. Len, was good to meet y...

Get that ufo to gariep what ever you do. Modling wont give up until your smile is bigger than his ! Modling is pushing hard to get the UFO ready, and I am not sure who has the widest smile, the results with the 2L is unbelieveable. If all go according to plan the UFO will take to the sky this after...

This last week was one of those ones that produced more challenges than anticipated. The EJ25 engine did not last long with the turbo. Oil leak on the head gasket was causing the oil temp to rise beyond normal operating temperatures. Seems Johan always has something up his sleeve, when I arrived at ...

Johan send this pic of the turbo instalation, little dark but you can see the oil cooler pipes
and the tube going up to the intake manifold at the top.

Welcome JJ

Try to make a plan to join us to the Gariep fly in.

Regards

Pierre