SRL
On SRL
SRL at AMS
I’ve been in Amsterdam the last few days working to get the SRL show up and running. Things are coming together nicely, but there are some difficulties to working far from home. The bizarre aerospace fasteners on the jet engine require a socket we don’t have and they’re English, for example. But so far I’ve got the shockwave cannon working and the pulse jet ignitors built, but the Williams jet isn’t running yet as it seems the HF ignitor is broken.
More fun to come.
Hovercraft on the roof
Screw machine going in
There are better pictures on the interwebs – for example here.
1/2 a solid container.
The last 20 feet of a 40 foot container. Top right: the front leg of the running machine. Bottom right: the business end of the bomb loader. Bottom left: the V1’s butt. Top left: the flame cyclone tanks….
Hoovercraft
It ran. Nicely. Everything works, and the new motor is really powerful.s
Hovercraft testing from k0re and Vimeo.
Safety wire
Today I learned how to safety wire. Nothing like learning in a confined space. I even drilled the bolt heads….
The hovercraft really flies on the new motor.
Little Arm
This is mark controlling the little arm with an anthropomorphic controller. He moves his arm, the little arm moves to follow. “little” is relative.
Gas tank
I had to make mounts to support the gas tank, mounts for the finger screen and supplemental supports for the exhaust system, and a few other bits and installed them all.
Almost hovering
Today nothing all that photogenic… I mounted the fuel tank on some jaunty spars I made and got the crap guard cut out and installed. Now for wiring up the motor and testing it…