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Both these ideas are great. I can see dropping one or several flour bombs at at time. I take it the cardboard divider leaves the airplane with the flour bomb. Nice multi-load concept, pretty simple and removable. That fits my criteria. The plus is multiple use for camera platform too. Will you share your camera adapter plate details too? I think several of us are interested in you video set up too. What video output to what PDA? |
Let's just say I was contemplating this a year or two ago, you know, an external store for extra toilet paper in case one gets caught in the boonies in need...
I was going to attach it to several of the screws on the bell crank access cover. Hadn't gotten as far as how to deploy said rolls, but I was thinking a single bowden cable going under all three. Pull 4", deploy one, pull another 4", second one, etc. Put a spring of some sort on top of each roll. Hmmm. |
Good discussion, we were wondering about the intricacies of a hatch in the RV.
TP out the door would not always completely unroll?. Ended up prepping each roll with masking tape on the first 5 feet or so, then rolling them back up. Grasping the tape as the roll goes out the door insures a completely unrolled streamer hanging in the sky for all kinds of fun. Spreading Ashes was also problematic at first, some of the ash always ended up back in the cabin? joke was The Dearly Departed didn?t want to get out. A PVC pipe out into the slip stream did the trick after that, although some ash has bone fragments which can hang up. pk |
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How about using the hard points under the wings where the tie downs are. Plenty strong enough. W/elec. solenoid release systems you could have both sides available for drops. Also, storage pods for bear spray, in Alaska.
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Attached is a low res. photo of the FlyJacket that mates with the old IPAQ's and turns it into a video monitor. Also in the same photo is a DigiSnap, which is an electronic remote control for various digital cameras. Figured these might be of interest if you are wanting to do low-cost aerial photography with an RV. |
Specs on a flour bomb
What is the best bag and weight for a flour bomb? Is there a spec with a max or min, does each contest set its own rule, or is it all an ad hoc exercise - the bigger the better? If you are mixing flour and sand (sand for deadweight), what volume ratio? Sand may be somewhat cheaper, maybe, but why not just a bigger bag and more flour? What's the story, you bomber pilots?
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I've been contemplating this for the last couple of years and my best thought would be to fashion a fiberglass pod that would attach to the underside of the wing screwed into the platenuts that hold one of the inspection plates. The door would be spring loaded and use an RC servo which can be remotely triggered from the cockpit or even a hidden buddy on the ground. Figure one per wing gives you two drops per flight or even a single unit with two doors so you only need one servo. Each unit is self contained with the servo so you just remove them when after you've won the contest. |
Bomb Bay for Flour Bombs...
I can't help thinking that someplace there is some dedicated VAF member, just outside the edge of completely sane, working on a gatling paintball gun geared to shoot through the prop.
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I asked an airforce friend for some insights in how I should know when to release my pumpkin; taking into account altitude, wind direction and speed. He stated that in the absence of the current pumpkin ballistics tables he would not be of much help!
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darn google
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.... be right back |
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Short Video
I added short vidoe of bomb door operation
http://s730.photobucket.com/albums/w...t=MVI_2161.mp4 Jim Knight Burlington Iowa RV-6 |
Put the flower in Styrofoam cups works much better than paper sacks.
G.P. |
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-- Stephen p.s. cool fab on that mechanism. And the vid really shows it off. Nice work! |
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Oh, what fun awaits...:cool: |
Exhaust consideration
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Exhaust may be a consideration (with plexiglas) & (carbon monoxide) at the front floor of an RV8. |
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On related note, I need to design a Norden sight for an RV-6 :-D |
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This really gets the wheels turning. Our formation group fly high cover in the Key West Independence Day celebration for the open cockpit planes that bomb the Navy with TP. With this, we could actually participate. At high cover position, we'd see the streaming TP from above and are always envious of those guys. |
7B3 has a flour bomb contest every year. The bombs are 1lb of flour in a small paper lunch bag the the top of the bag wrapped around and sealed with masking tape. From talking with "those in the know" from both Owls Head Air museum and Rhinbeck, this is "a standard bomb". J-3's are the preferred platform.
However, that bomb door is so cool! |
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Flour Drop
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Considered a flour drop unit w/ solenoid release, (attached to the wing tie down hard point. |
old video
The link to the toilet paper drop bay (posted in 2012) has expired. Any happen to have the downloaded video or a current link, perhaps?
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fun to read this old thread.... & remember
Many years ago, I attended (twice actually) an annual "community fly-in /show & shine / drag race weekend", at an undisclosed airport, in an undisclosed NW state. Big local crowds attended and was covered by local media. The finale event of the weekend was the 'bomb' drop event, The idea was that participants would pass over twice, first run at 1000ft, second run at 500ft and try to hit an old car in the mid field. The ordinance was a 10 pin bowling ball... The story was- that nobody ever hit that old car in all the years the event was held. Many tactics were employed from Stuka type approaches to slow / side slip out the door drops, of course, high wing planes were best suited to enter.
There was a Waco that participated and had a novel bomb mechanism rigged to the aft fuselage consisting of rope webbing slings which could be released individually. Was hilarious watching the old Waco taxi out from the ramp as the twin bomb load swayed like other thangs that dangle. |
tp
I miss chasing TP
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