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Old 04-25-2014, 05:37 PM
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Default Toilet paper bombing

Someone told me about this a few days ago. Its tossing a roll of toilet paper out of your airplane, and then yanking & banking to see how many times you can cut the streamer with your plane. This sounds GREAT More fun than a human is supposed to have. BUT-----one minor problem-----how to get the roll of toilet paper out of a RV 8 or any RV for that matter. ( This guy didn't have an RV) Anybody got any ideas??
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Old 04-25-2014, 06:29 PM
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It's fun in a Cub - not so sure how it would be in a fast RV....(if you could figure out how to get the roll out).
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Old 04-25-2014, 06:32 PM
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There was a post here a couple of years ago where an RV7 (6?) had a "toilet paper" bay doors with a clever linkage to open like a B25. They used it for just this purpose. I will search and see if I can find it.

Ahh - here it is. DanH was talking about cat testing, dunno why.

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Old 04-25-2014, 06:37 PM
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Default Paper

Did it a few times in my Skybolt. Be carful and only cut thru the paper with the wings . The first time we did it was with the prop , found some paper on the top of the motor , could easily block the oil cooler of intake .
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Old 04-25-2014, 06:42 PM
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Start at post 25.

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Old 04-25-2014, 07:52 PM
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Default T.P. Drop/cutting

I used to do that frequently in a 7GCAA Citabria, I second the recommendation of only cutting with the wing. No only can the paper effect engine cooling. You also need to be carful not to hit the cardboard center roll as it Can/WILL DENT the leading edge of wing.
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Old 04-26-2014, 05:02 AM
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why not take out the cardboard center. i would hate to damage my plane while having so much fun.
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Old 04-26-2014, 06:04 AM
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When I was a cadet at the Air Force Academy, I "heard" of guys who would fly gliders over the superintendent's house and drop oranges in his pool. I always wondered what he thought when he found mysterious citrus back there.
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Old 04-26-2014, 07:36 AM
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Are there any federal regulations that apply to dropping things out of airplanes?
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Old 04-26-2014, 07:42 AM
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The gliding club where I learned to fly was based out of a sheep paddock in South Australia. The field was infested along the fence lines with paddy melons, a totally inedible wild melon about the size of a softball. Must've tasted bad, even the sheep left them alone.

We had an ES-59 Arrow, a wood and rag sailplane which could be flown without the canopy.

It became something of a tradition to toss paddy melons overboard at the top of a winch launch to see if you could bomb the safety cage of the winch. The cage was made out of steel mesh; a direct hit would cause the paddy melon to basically liquefy, showering the winch driver with bitter smelly fruit pulp.

By the time I joined the club, the winch safety cage had been replaced with a sealed enclosure made out of checkerplate and polycarbonate, causing the practice to fall out of favour: Hitting it would scare the heck out of the winch driver with a massive bang, but if they didn't get any in their hair then what's the point?

The old Arrow was great fun for toilet paper streamer cuts. VNE was 128 kts, but it was so draggy that it was almost impossible to get that fast without a vertical dive. Thermal up to 7000 or 8000 feet, toss out a roll, see how many times you could cut it by the time you were down to 2000, then find another thermal and start again.

In an RV I'd worry about overspeed, these planes are too slippery and have too much power to weight ratio.

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