I've been wanting to put one of these together for years:

http://www.europa-aircraft.co.uk/

We've got a spare room if you wanna move out here and help. ;)

The only glitch 350, is that the IA that signs the letter confirming your experience has to be able to state that the work was done "under the supervision" of someone with an appropriate rating. You have to be careful in how you word the letter so that neither one of you is stating something that is untrue. That said, the written tests for the A&P are easy if you study the Gliem books a week prior to each test.

I took a week long course to prep for and take the IA test and actually scored 100% on it (which is rare because there is usually a couple of bogus trick questions that you have to guess on, I got lucky and must have guessed right). Everyone in the class passed but I was the only one who was not employed full time as a mechanic or technician as my day job. Point to all this back patting being is that the tests are relatively easy, getting the authorization to take the tests is the hard part.

I really enjoy working on airplanes and cars for that matter, but I just can't toss out my 15 yr engineering job with good benefits when I have a wife and kids to provide for.

I'll see if anyone is using that at the big/national hovercraft rally in Ohio in three weeks.

For the finger/segmented skirts neoprene coated nylon woven fabric is used, heavier fabric for bag skirts or PVC. Their are common materials with the inflatable rafts, the rafts tend to use heavier materials for craft of similar size though.

None of the glues worked as well as I hoped. About 75% of them did just fine when tugged on with vigor. However I was able to easily peel them off each other. Sewing stitches and or using rivets, zippers and other mechanical fasteners is pretty typical in hovercraft skirts.

Marine Goop and rivets, covered with Lubmaster's tape will get me by until I get the design sorted out. At 99 cent a foot for a three-foot wide sheet of nylon reinforced plastic sheet I can play with attachments and skit forms all summer long.

Could we get this thread renamed before someone mistakenly thinks it has anything to do with, you know,...a spyder. Oh wait! There wasn't really a spyder in it to begin with! ;)
Les

I did not take a picture of the first inflation test; the bag filled up and popped off the cloths pins pretty quickly.

I used a foam core model with clay bags for form, cut a pattern off of it, and blew it up to fit the real craft. I suppose there are 3-D drafting/model programs out there, but I'm more of a sculptor and artist at heart.

Note: rear bouyancy butt (blue part - another innovation) will be covered by the rear bag yet to be fitted.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1117796539.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1117796570.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1117796596.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1117796632.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1117796665.jpg

If I could figure out how to get a government research grant or find a rich investor I would develop this thought/design further.

Check out the classifieds:

http://www.hoverclubofamerica.org/

For $3,000 you get a good running used craft, $500 more for a used fly-on trailer.

There is a 90% complete Sevtec with a Subaru engine for sale. I'm inspired by it's skirt design. A similar craft did a tour of Alaska braving 15-foot waves!

I need pics to tell

It would be really nice to see pictures of the "car in the barn" so we know its real. Otherwise one would start thinking that it was a scam all along...

Joe A

well i dont think any of you ever seached out rare hard to find cars , it has only been one week since i posted it , still trying to find out what are the differnaces in spyders RS 550 speedsters etc... with more help on a Mercedes board then this porsche one

when looking and finding hard to find cars you dont want to be all excited takling pictures showing up every other day you dont want to let the person know you are interested you want them to think its a hassle to take it off their hands , you want to make them wait and think you are not interested anymore so when you show up agian they are happy to see you , if you are there every other day taking pics and checking it out you will reveal you are really into and the price seems to go up it a mellow dance to get a great deal anyone can pay fulll prices
but not me
i will post pics once i get them into my barn and and we can figure out if it is real or a replicas

Why don't you just ask her how much she wants for it and verify its authenticity for yourself? Sounds like you're setting yourself up to be bragging on "Antiques Roadshow" about how you picked this thing up for $200.

Gotta have a dream, don't you?

http://www.drive.com.au/editorial/article.aspx?id=25&vf=1&s_cid=NewCarSales:
It's the archetypal car collectors' urban myth: a rare collectible found in a barn, where it had sat with minimal mileage on the clock for 27 years.

Nice airplanes, Joe!
I got my solo license in a 7AC Champion on my 16th birhday...two weeks before I got my driver's license.

No offense, but it does sound a bit fishy. I know if I found something resembling a Spyder (Replica or not) in a barn (plus a 914) for $1000, I would not be waiting around for someone else to come and buy it out from under me.

This group is very helpful and informative, and the board is an excellent resource. The problem with posting a "found in a barn" story is that this is a pretty skeptical crowd. However, once we all know it is legit, you will have an abundance of support and help. I'm not sure how much technical info you are going to get from your "Mercedes board", but the collective Porsche knowledge here trumps almost anything out there in "cyber space".

Actually, taking pictures and posting them here could be a great help to you. Then you will have everyone coming out of the woodwork to tell you EXACTLY what you are looking at. Then you would know what you are getting into and/or just how great of a deal it would be.

So, any updates?

:confused:

He is probably still waiting for the lady to dig the cars out for him. ;)

Or for her to call back willing to let it go for less...

My philosophy on deals like this is quite different.

1. Extricate and remove the car in no more than 24 hours.

2. Give a reasonable amount over and above the asking price if it's ridiculously low.

The longer you wait, the greater chance the seller will casually remark to someone that she has a buyer for that old car in the barn. interest begets interest, and you could have a bidding war on your hands.

As for engine parts -- well, a real 4-cam 550/Carrera engine costs as much as a small vacation home. And many in the business would not sell you an engine unless it was numbers-matching tot he chassis. So if it's not a replica, let's hope the engine is mostly or all there.

The lack up updates just adds to my suspicion that this whole story is pure BS.

I once found an all original Carrera RS buried in and behind a bunch of junk in an old barn. The farmer said I could buy it and all the other junk cars in the barn for a couple hundred bucks or so but that stupid Ferrari 250 on jack stands was blocking it in. I figured it just wasn't worth my time.

This is just as dumb as the guy with the front yard turbo find down in MD.