New Year weight loss plans ???

"Montblack" wrote:

("Jay Honeck" wrote)
Hey Mark -- does your company make a decent (and affordable) folding bike
for pilots?

Folding bike? How about a titanium 'tube and fabric' airplane project? -
after hours, of course.

I thought about that too... once. Until I started adding up the cost
of the tubes involved and then considered that most people probably
wouldn't want to spend "certified prices" for a box of parts that will
become a kit with hundreds/thousands of hours of exta labor.

I would look cool though...

With the weight saving in titanium frame construction they could now drop in
a small liquid cooled diesel... g

It probably wouldn't be any lighter than an aluminum frame, though it
would have other advantages (wouldn't need paint, would have a far
superior fatigue life, though that's not a big issue with aluminum
based on the last half-century of anecdotal evidence). And by the
time you paid for the titanium tubes, you might be back to VW power.

Mark Hickey

"Mark Hickey" wrote in message
...
It probably wouldn't be any lighter than an aluminum frame, though it
would have other advantages (wouldn't need paint, would have a far
superior fatigue life, though that's not a big issue with aluminum
based on the last half-century of anecdotal evidence). And by the
time you paid for the titanium tubes, you might be back to VW power.

Anyone for a wooden bicycle?
http://digilander.libero.it/felixpet...-di-legno3.jpg
http://www.ottavia.com/bike_catalog.html

Anyone for a wooden bicycle?
http://digilander.libero.it/felixpet...-di-legno3.jpg
http://www.ottavia.com/bike_catalog.html

That is, quite possibly, the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:

That is, quite possibly, the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

Definitely a candidate for the UMGOMS award. Probably wouldn't have won, though.
The winner cost a lot more.
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/news_col...323957,00.html

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.

("George Patterson" wrote)
Definitely a candidate for the UMGOMS award. Probably wouldn't have won,
though. The winner cost a lot more.
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/news_col...323957,00.html


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Montblack

"George Patterson" wrote in message news:SITuf.6463$tJ1.645@trndny01...
Definitely a candidate for the UMGOMS award. Probably wouldn't have won,
though.
The winner cost a lot more.

http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/news_col...323957,00.html

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