LocostUSA.com

Learning how to build Lotus Seven replicas...together!
It is currently March 28, 2024, 5:14 am

All times are UTC - 5 hours [ DST ]




Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 21 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1, 2
Author Message
 Post subject: Re: Aero Screens
PostPosted: February 9, 2016, 7:32 am 
Offline

Joined: December 11, 2015, 9:51 am
Posts: 19
Location: Rockledge, Florida
Gentlemen the screw passing thru the trunnion and screen assy is threaded into a blind hole this gives the trunnion a clean appearance on the front view


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re: Aero Screens
PostPosted: February 9, 2016, 7:32 am 
Offline

Joined: December 11, 2015, 9:51 am
Posts: 19
Location: Rockledge, Florida
Gentlemen the screw passing thru the trunnion and screen assy is threaded into a blind hole this gives the trunnion a clean appearance on the front view


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re: Aero Screens
PostPosted: February 11, 2016, 9:19 pm 
Offline

Joined: December 11, 2015, 9:51 am
Posts: 19
Location: Rockledge, Florida
To all members for two weeks i was Hospitalized.
Now that I am back at work I will attend to all your comments.
Past comments made by me where made when I was not at my best.
Please be patience as I will reply to all your questions

Eric Wharton


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re: Aero Screens
PostPosted: February 12, 2016, 12:55 am 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: July 29, 2006, 9:10 pm
Posts: 3160
Location: Oregon, usually
Hi Eric, welcome back. We wish you a speedy recovery.

_________________
Locost builder and adventurer, and founder (but no longer owner) of Kinetic Vehicles


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re: Aero Screens
PostPosted: February 12, 2016, 11:37 am 
Offline

Joined: July 6, 2008, 11:15 am
Posts: 1047
Location: Cave Creek, AZ
I did a lot of work at Lockheed Martin (formerly Goodyear Aerospace) and got the whole story on their Chicken gun. Air powered with a radical new type air valve 8" in diameter with a diaphram made out of Mylar. A high speed circular knife cut the Mylar to release the air. I saw one of the valve frames but all that was left of the cannon was the concrete foundation. In fact I was asked to bury the exposed foundation with excess dirt from my excavation since dirt dug up on site is not allowed to leave the site because it is a Superfund clean-up site.

They were told to use frozen chickens obtained from a store because the PETA people were not convinced that Hickman's Egg Ranch in Glendale knew how to humanely kill a chicken. Rumor has it that when the dignitaries showed up for a demonstration, it had to be delayed because one of the feral cats that roam the place had smelled the chicken and decided to get some. Couldn't get the cat out so the demo was postponed. They put a security guard on night watch and as soon as the cat came out he sealed off the cannon.

I don't know what the big deal was. If I was a pilot, I would want to know if my canopy could withstand a chicken and a cat at the same time.

Tom

_________________
Sometimes, I'm as confused as a baby in a topless bar.

My short term memory is absolutely horrible and so is my short term memory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG16m2e4O6I


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: Re: Aero Screens
PostPosted: December 6, 2018, 12:49 am 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: January 18, 2015, 2:34 am
Posts: 85
Location: Los Angeles
As a retired pilot, I was always told that the chicken gun was used for jet aircraft windscreens and jet engine fan and compressor section testing. The windscreens are triple layer, about 1 ½" tick and the engine blades are mostly titanium alloy. I've had a couple of birdstrikes on the windscreen but never had one come in. I have seen the inner layer of glass cracked however. The engine tests are basically testing for blade containment within the nacelle after impact. I've had the fan section entirely destroyed inflight and the engine remaining running. We didn't believe it either..


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 21 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1, 2

All times are UTC - 5 hours [ DST ]


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 3 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Jump to:  
POWERED_BY