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Post subject: Re: Raptor Aircraft 5 Seat Pressurized 3,600 NM Range Die Posted: 23 Jan 2020, 01:42 |
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Joined: 03/15/16 Posts: 450 Post Likes: +346 Location: NC
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Username Protected wrote: 1/4” brackets weren’t heavy enough so now he is adding 1/2” steel rods with steel spacers. Someone should suggest tungsten as a heavier alternative.
Is this real? I keep seeing these steel brackets comments. Maybe a silly question, but why is this not done in aluminum?
Yep, the fuselage was flexing so bad where he had the pulleys, he decided to add 1/4” plates to stiffen the areas.
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Post subject: Re: Raptor Aircraft 5 Seat Pressurized 3,600 NM Range Die Posted: 23 Jan 2020, 08:43 |
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Joined: 01/18/11 Posts: 7690 Post Likes: +3687 Location: Lakeland , Ga
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Username Protected wrote: Is this real? I keep seeing these steel brackets comments. Maybe a silly question, but why is this not done in aluminum? It's a Polar thing.... This Thing has gone totally bipolar
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Post subject: Re: Raptor Aircraft 5 Seat Pressurized 3,600 NM Range Die Posted: 23 Jan 2020, 10:06 |
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Joined: 09/06/11 Posts: 791 Post Likes: +387
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Raptor can be nicknamed “the bucking bar”
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Post subject: Re: Raptor Aircraft 5 Seat Pressurized 3,600 NM Range Die Posted: 24 Jan 2020, 00:48 |
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Username Protected wrote: Raptor can be nicknamed “the bucking bar” "Rebar Raptor" rolls off the tongue pretty easily.
_________________ -lance
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
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Post subject: Re: Raptor Aircraft 5 Seat Pressurized 3,600 NM Range Die Posted: 12 Feb 2020, 18:35 |
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Joined: 04/09/12 Posts: 273 Post Likes: +226 Location: S. Hadley, MA & Palm Coast, FL
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This thread is nowhere near as entertaining as it was when Chris Close was trolling.
Phil
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Post subject: Re: Raptor Aircraft 5 Seat Pressurized 3,600 NM Range Die Posted: 12 Feb 2020, 19:40 |
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Username Protected wrote: You could almost say it is a polar opposite. You just had to thrust that pun into the conversation, didn't you?
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Post subject: Re: Raptor Aircraft 5 Seat Pressurized 3,600 NM Range Die Posted: 12 Feb 2020, 19:57 |
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Username Protected wrote: This thread is nowhere near as entertaining as it was when Chris Close was trolling.
Phil That was really fun.. He is pretty smart though. Fly Raptor, Fly
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Post subject: Re: Raptor Aircraft 5 Seat Pressurized 3,600 NM Range Die Posted: 12 Feb 2020, 20:58 |
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Username Protected wrote: This thread is nowhere near as entertaining as it was when Chris Close was trolling.
Phil That was really fun.. He is pretty smart though. Fly Raptor, Fly
He never actually backed up his "talk" with numbers. Just spewed how everyone else was wrong.
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Post subject: Re: Raptor Aircraft 5 Seat Pressurized 3,600 NM Range Die Posted: 13 Feb 2020, 09:10 |
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Username Protected wrote: That was really fun.. He is pretty smart though.
Fly Raptor, Fly I question your definition of "smart".
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