We could split the price and ride it Voltron-style assuming you weigh between *mumble* and *mumble mumble* pounds. Then neither of us will have to go to other extents to prevent flying off into the stratosphere.
Mygaw... that's beautiful... pity about needing a total overhaul after 100 flight-hours, but otherwise it's marvellous and I actually do want one. ("Want" and "will get", of course, being two entirely separate states.)
-- Steve should also start a pool on when the first "jetpacker 'run over' by an aircraft" accident results from a 3D version of jaywalking.
As jet pilots concentrate more and more on their LCD screens, and as hobbyists find smaller ways in to the sky, this is already a much bigger problem than most people know.
Alternate ending: the extra weight can perhaps be provided by your warhammer? And don't tell me you wouldn't want to soar through the skies wielding a huge-ass hammer.
You're thinking in terms of automobiles, not of aircraft. Overhaul after 100 flight hours is pretty good for most things that fly. And that's considering that there are probably intermediate maintenance requirements between those intervals.
Keep in mind that for a lot of aircraft, you have to think in terms of maintenance hours per flight hour. Imagine if you had to have your car in the shop for two hours for every hour you spend driving it.
Yeah, complete and total overhaul (as in, you need to replace the entire spaceframe with a new one) after 2000 hours was what was quoted for the kit-helicopter that that veterinarian built in "A Helicopter Is Born", as well as some fairly hefty (replacement of a few hundred quid worth of parts) maintenance every 25, and even more (like, full engine overhaul, right the way down to the crank bearings) every couple hundred.
Presumably the only stuff that remains after a while, even without failures and/or accidents, is the non-structural parts like the fiberglass on the outside.
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Date: 2010-03-10 05:21 pm (UTC)BUGGER. Bugger bugger *grumble* bugger.
Note to self: Put on weight once you've saved enough money. Or invest in *mumble* pounds of ankle weights as ballast.
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Date: 2010-03-10 06:02 pm (UTC)-- Steve should also start a pool on when the first "jetpacker 'run over' by an aircraft" accident results from a 3D version of jaywalking.
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Date: 2010-03-11 02:09 am (UTC)Keep in mind that for a lot of aircraft, you have to think in terms of maintenance hours per flight hour. Imagine if you had to have your car in the shop for two hours for every hour you spend driving it.
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Date: 2010-03-13 02:33 pm (UTC)Presumably the only stuff that remains after a while, even without failures and/or accidents, is the non-structural parts like the fiberglass on the outside.