Traders - What are your hobbies?

Quote from Lucrum:

Over the last couple of months I've all but stopped short term trading to devote the majority of my time pursuing my lifelong dream. Designing and building a one of a kind experimental home built aircraft.

I'm currently rebuilding a turbocharged Mazda 20B rotary engine for this purpose.

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Your building a plane ? Are you serious !


lol What a world we live in !!!!

I think it will be my next project but for now...

I am trying to fix my plumbing problem, its taking a while...

Left over supper gets drained down kitchen sink, moves down the pipe, does a u-turn at the clog and back flows up in to the garage's sink which is 18 litre (converts to gallons as "big sink")

This is where my plunging experience got interesting.

Density was not on my side, the garage sink contains solid food at the bottom that is being dissolved (possibly fomenting-I'm no scientist). On top of the dense sludge is other levels of sludge each more watery then the previous.. Don't plunge in these circumstantial, especially if its one of those deep heavy duty sinks that can hold 18 litter of water and your plunger only has half a foot to hold on to.

From there, with new water being introduced, the less dense dissolved material (watery sludge) over flows from the monstrous sink and makes its way to the garage floor. After going for a stroll around my garage it finds its way to the drain and ends up in the sewage.

To recap

Food in- down pipe - held by buoyancy till dissolved in sink and moves along the floor to the drain.

That is my pass time. Watch things that I am supposed to do and instead of doing them, I write about them.

The whole system is actually ingenuous. It cant clog! It was developed taking its sues from nature.

food in mouth-oesophagus-stomach processing (sink) and a really messy exit strategy. Hey it stinks too !

Not quite a plane,
But hey! I know I would like to build a plane if that counts for anything?
 
Nice to see someone building a plane:)

I dreamed of building one (when I was in probably middle school/elementary) and remember asking some basic/stupid questions to my elder bro who is an Engineer. Fast forward after so many years, I still have the dream of flying solo on my own plane. (Hopefully I make my $ in trading and I think I am on that path). Few weeks ago took the discovery flight at a local flying club. It was 25+ years old Cessna. After initial intro/safety instructions, when we went near the plane, didnot feel comfortable seeing the hail damage on the wings. But felt too late to return to the office/backout, so thought will give it a shot. Suddenly lots of wind/cross wind and we took off and I was in control for reasonable amount of time when we were up in the air and it looked/felt easy to fly the plane. The instructor was planning to let me land but decided against as cross wind was too much. But overall felt good except for few moments of churning in the stomach:) ,and when he was seasawing the plane (left/right) over a lake.

Would do it again if time permits or should go for PPL and eventually my own plane if I make it big in trading:)
 
Quote from traitor786:

Another good hobby (assuming you are not in the classes) would be to sell your car that you thought was not too bad and had a good year to price ratio, sell it, buy an older Jeep grand Cherokee (pre 2001?) spend money improving it as most hobbies cost money. As a street truck it is also better then Aztec. (keep in mind its a uni body so look for undercarriage rust)


Really an Aztek ? All the convenience of a tent platform wrapped up in a gas sucking van minus the extra row of seats.
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I was mystified what you were talking about until I did a quick search. The Aztec I'm looking at only has 3 wheels, an engine on each wing, and would fly over the 4 wheeling areas. Not to mention it costs an arm and a leg to maintain. It does suck gas with 2 engines, and at ~$6/gallon that is a bit painful. It was made by Piper, and is ~35 years old.
I love my motorcycle, and have probably too much fun with it. I wouldn't mind a Shelby GT500, but not that interested in cars.
 
Quote from taclander:

I was mystified what you were talking about until I did a quick search. The Aztec I'm looking at only has 3 wheels, an engine on each wing, and would fly over the 4 wheeling areas. Not to mention it costs an arm and a leg to maintain. It does suck gas with 2 engines, and at ~$6/gallon that is a bit painful. It was made by Piper, and is ~35 years old.
I love my motorcycle, and have probably too much fun with it. I wouldn't mind a Shelby GT500, but not that interested in cars.
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Mine had 2 engines too. (Accept one was sitting in a junk yard lol !) I am scared to re-read my post. (Often they are trying too hard to put some deep thoughts into an entertaining way and end up being verbal diarrhea)

So sorry about the post in general, some things you say in your posts around here are just too familiar. 3 wheels sounds good. I may look in to that.
 
Quote from Lucrum:

No plans for a G suit. I've done + 6 and - 4.4 years ago. I've seen a guy do what I think was + 12 without a G suit, for very brief periods. Few GA aircraft have to the thrust to sustain high G for any length of time like the jet fighters do.

(The Blue Angles don't wear G suits either BTW)
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what happened to your airplane?
 
Quote from gmst:

what happened to your airplane?
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Partly due to work starting two years ago and partly due to a lot of baby sitting my step granddaughter it's been on hold.

However in just the last couple weeks I've been easing back into some of the design work. I decided to redo my wood foam and plywood stabilators in aluminum. I'm working on sizing the spars, which is relatively easy with the spreadsheets I have. It's integrating the construction and the details of connecting the stabs to the fuselage that are taking some time.

I'm also a bit stuck on how I'm going to mechanically mix the all flying stabs with the joy stick. The problem is they'll be used simultaneously for pitch and roll. And I don't want to use cables.

I've also begun working on sizing (stress analysis) a metal frame for attaching the wings, engine, fuel tank, main gear and tail components to. I'm vacillating back and fort between welded 4130 and bolted/riveted 6061 square tubes.
 
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