Mark Bolton
Active Member
Time stamp 2014 ... I built an RV - 4 that was ready to take to the air field. 40 hours work left maximum. Then I saw a lick of flame venturing down my front drive . The wildfire flame got bigger. It got interesting from a thermodynamic perspective.
It got intense when the wild fire crowned and I hid under rocks and such ... any way that was 2014 and .... Even better I didnt die in the fire.
The RV - 4 went airbourne but without me in it...
The airframe .... (all those rivets) just took the fire and vaporised... I expected to see a pool of Aluminum where my RV - 4 once was. But there was nothing. Not even ash.
It took us fire fighters 5 weeks to defeat that fire ... I didnt have a house any more but I wasnt dead... down but not out.
FYI I am Australian...
Perhaps If I could build a RV - 3 ? I never like the "ever so clever" airplanes .. with the this and the that.
I would just appreciate an honest design (RV - 3 /4) with an engine that makes sense ...
When I had a Tiger Moth I used to love to follow the sunset wedge into the evening astronomy ... then fly it back down ti Her nights rest ... sometimes a lazy half tumble spin is fun. When a Tiger Moth stops flying it is like trimming the sails on a Sea Scout training sail vessel. I ti all about the elements.
Tiger Moths are wonderful but are too much the Herman Melville discussion.
Do you think I should build an RV - 3 ? .... Oh Really?? well so do I .. at least I would have something worth flying.
It got intense when the wild fire crowned and I hid under rocks and such ... any way that was 2014 and .... Even better I didnt die in the fire.
The RV - 4 went airbourne but without me in it...
The airframe .... (all those rivets) just took the fire and vaporised... I expected to see a pool of Aluminum where my RV - 4 once was. But there was nothing. Not even ash.
It took us fire fighters 5 weeks to defeat that fire ... I didnt have a house any more but I wasnt dead... down but not out.
FYI I am Australian...
Perhaps If I could build a RV - 3 ? I never like the "ever so clever" airplanes .. with the this and the that.
I would just appreciate an honest design (RV - 3 /4) with an engine that makes sense ...
When I had a Tiger Moth I used to love to follow the sunset wedge into the evening astronomy ... then fly it back down ti Her nights rest ... sometimes a lazy half tumble spin is fun. When a Tiger Moth stops flying it is like trimming the sails on a Sea Scout training sail vessel. I ti all about the elements.
Tiger Moths are wonderful but are too much the Herman Melville discussion.
Do you think I should build an RV - 3 ? .... Oh Really?? well so do I .. at least I would have something worth flying.