"TAP não sobrevive se se mantiver pública", garante Pinto Luz

[MarcoAntonio]

Já agora, retirado de um site de notícias sobre aviação:

October 13, 2010
Gabriel Nderitu, Kenyan Homebuilt Aircraft Manufacturer
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By Glenn Pew, Contributing Editor, Video Editor


An I.T. specialist in Kenya, Gabriel Nderitu, spent six months researching aircraft on the Internet and one year building what he hopes may become a true Kenyan homebuilt flying machine. 42-year-old Nderitu cites a boyhood interest in aviation and says, "So maybe it was a missed career, which I'm trying to re-create." He employed five men to help with welding and assembly. In the end, Nderitu mounted a Toyota engine to his modular airframe. The strutted wing and ailerons are skinned with aluminum sheet. The engine itself turns up to 4,000 rpm, driving a 74-inch wooden propeller through a simple reduction belt drive. Nderitu says "a bit of it was a bit of reinventing the wheel ... not really looking and trying to copy." The aircraft is not yet finished and there is no guarantee Nderitu's craft will ever be licensed, or allowed to fly, or that it is even capable of flight (which seems unlikely). But that may not be the point.

Nderitu hopes to complete the airplane "whether it flies or not." As a longstanding dream, he says he just wants to "get it out of my mind, then I can do something else." Whatever it achieves, the craft may serve as inspiration. "If a guy says that 'I want to build an aircraft' it seems like he's from the moon, or from somewhere. And if it happens, if it at least lifts off, even if it is three feet, it shows that you have gone somewhere."

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/nd ... 437-1.html

[MarcoAntonio]

Só se trata de um avião se voar e não se sabe se voa (existem efectivamente dúvidas se voa e o teste, tanto quanto sei, ainda não ocorreu).

Senão eu monto já aí uma hélice eléctrica numa bicicleta e chamo-lhe um avião...

[Elias]

Mas ainda falta saber se o avião voa...

Lá estás tu a dispersar-te com pormenores...

[MarcoAntonio]

Mas ainda falta saber se o avião voa...

As perspectivas não parecem boas segundo alguns comentários que à primeira vista me parecem informados.

[crust]

Um avião queniano "home made"
Talvez uma solução para a crise na TAP.

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[crust]

Boa noite

1º Relógio medieval da cidade de Praga, onde é projectado um espectáculo por celebração dos 600 anos do relógio.
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2ºSucessão de fotogramas de um espaço de tempo de 3 dias e meio em 12 minutos.

A obra é a substituição dos carris municpais de São Francisco, custo da obra 3M.

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3ºO tamanho de África, uma medida alternativa.