Monster garage car/plane build

In article .com, jmk says...

Somehow I doubt that it can ever come even close to what the British
build (in just 20 hours) and flew in JYW. That thing looked like it
was just about ready to go into production, it appeared to handled so
well.

And then there was that great judge... what was his name??? G

I'll let ya in on a little secret ,the Brits and the French were prepared for
the build.They had drawn full size plans at home and knew what they were gonna
build ahead of time. The USA team pretty much winged it because only one guy
knew what was going to be built. The French even practiced building components
back in France for practice. The Bill the pilot on the Brits team even built a
flying scale model back in the UK to test the design. As Judge I was there for
the 2 build days and the planes were pretty complete except for details like
throttles ,wiring fuel tanks etc. True it was longer then 20 hrs but all in all
it was 3 planes built ,N numbered and flown in under a week.And there was a
couple of days wasted in transporting the planes to the desert.

As far as the Judge went he should go back to building and leave the Judging to
Judge Wapner LOL!!

See ya

Chuck(out of work JYW's contestant)S

Sorta-on-topic:

In tonight's episode of MythBusters, they explore whether you can build
a personal VTOL vehicle from plans that you can buy on the Internet. I
had a good look at the parts when I auditioned for the show last year.
I won't say much about it til after the show, but what's in the public
domain:

They talked with the SoloTrek guys, and filmed at least part of the
segment at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos where the SoloTrek
prototype is:

http://www.millenniumjet.com/Trek_News.htm

They originally selected a Rotax 582 for power:

http://www.worldtalkradio.com/archive.asp?aid=2471

It'll be interesting to see what they've made of it since I last saw
it.

Thanks, Bob K.

I don't get it. If you think the "effort was wasted on a
joke vehical" why watch? I have never seen the show, the previews
looked like a bunch of guys who think they are better than everyone
else. I also figure that instead of waisting and hour watching someone
else build something and complain about how they do it, I could work on
my own projects.

Lou

On 9 Jun 2005 03:41:22 -0700, "Lou" wrote:

I don't get it. If you think the "effort was wasted on a
joke vehical" why watch? I have never seen the show, the previews
looked like a bunch of guys who think they are better than everyone
else. I also figure that instead of waisting and hour watching someone
else build something and complain about how they do it, I could work on
my own projects.

Lou

Interesting, you didn't watch it but feel the need to comment anyway.
Doesn't matter that the car is a joke, that's what they do, build joke
vehicals, it's the point of the show. What's interesting is watching
the guys do things like turn a Mazda Miata into a jet ski boat: how
would they do that? What pieces go into it? Or turn some other car
into a snomobile that raises and lowers the tracks and ski's so that
it can both drive on the pavement and run on the snow. Or build a car
that can fly. They chose not to give the vehical the full three axis
controls, guess it was one complication too many because the original
vehical controls remained (brakes, accelerator pedal and steering
wheel) but they had to add the aileron controls and elevator actuator.
Perhaps working out the rudder controls was just too much for a five
day build, since they also fabricated their own wings and struts and
roll cage to which they would attach.

Yes, they act like a bunch of egomaniacs because they've spent all
their lives building things other folks can't, and most have been very
successful at it.

I appreciate their skills, I just don't like the producers efforts to
create acrimony to make the show more "watchable".

Corky Scott

Corky Scott wrote:


I appreciate their skills, I just don't like the producers efforts to
create acrimony to make the show more "watchable".

Corky Scott


One of my favorite is the OC chopper show they do great things with their
bikes but suffer from the same "producer" troubles. The producer
concentrates on the bickering between father and son which I know is a turn
on for a lot of people but just turns me off. Kinda like the political
threads on this ng! ;-)
John
Sorry Corky couldn't help that last gib!