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  • Comment on "New wing"

    Nice photo Jozinko.  What is the looped cable I drew a box around? (hover mouse pointer over photo)

  • Comment on "whats wrong with this pictue"

    Yes, ULTP is right, because the cable under the bolt is blocking the crossbeam and it is pushed down on the keel. The crossbeam have to be "free" moving up and down within the limits which gives it a white velcro stripe you have there.

  • Comment on "Paddock Burns"

    Hi Ken, These fires are amasing from the ground and the Country Fire Authority gets called out all the time to them. However when you see them from the air they just look great. The fire is started by a Ute draging a burning drum on a cable. you can see this in the photo Paddock burn starts.

  • Comment on "Documented BRS save"

    ...cburg maybe I'll have you make them for me? Not that I don't trust the cables on my TRIKE but I was thinking that if I replace them that I would like a heavier cable.an an4 bolt and nut would be...

  • Comment on "Passive Detection Systems."

    Hi XC, Yes that photo is of Mt Arapiles. It is the beginning of the Great Dividing range. The tower on the top has a cable that extends out past the trees at the bottom. I did publis...

  • Comment on "Cracking her open"

    I remember removing the BRS handle up front and pulling through it along with the cable assembly to the back of the acft.  Yes - I also removed the breaks but I did it the other way.  I pulled the calipers and ran them forward.   I was changing the break pads anyways.    

  • Comment on "Documented BRS save"

    ...tell them what it’s for. I doubt WW will do it for you. Consider learning how to do rigging. Make everything 3/16”…the extra drag on uncoated cable is nothing. I don’t like a...

  • Comment on "whats wrong with this pictue"

    yes the haulback cable usually goes above the hang block but it got hung up this one time.have set the wing up hundreds of times and this has never happend.wing makes a hard left turn and could not figure it out.had multiple eyes on the wing after but was hard to spot

  • Comment on "whats wrong with this pictue"

    Hey Dean, I spotted it immediately. Yes that safety pin would have caught the cable and not released it. I can believe it had a hard L turn because that kind of glitch would have for...

  • Comment on "Gibbo Manta 17 wing First Impressions"

    It's an "A" frame config. We called them "twin-boom" in the late 70's. Then the "Cable Braced Mono-pole" trikes came out in the early 80's. There are still some dual mast trikes made today. I just sold a trike with a dual mast and my three Gibbo wings worked fine on them.