My '03 started leaking at the bottom of the primary cover after about about
9 months. I didn't feel right about that bike until that happpened. I use the spot on the floor to gage how long it's been since I last rode. Of course right now it's around 30 degrees out and dropping so it'll grow bigger than a pancake before I'll get on it anytime soon. ;-)WmB
My '03 is tight, but my '98 is leaking from the TOP of the primary...go figure. I think I'm gonna have to pull the outer and inner and lap them to get it to stop...
And a friend of mine who served on carriers said that about A3Js.
Bill Banaszak, MFE
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When I was a loader at Bentwaters (A-10s), we had F-111s come from Lakenheath sometimes, before they got F-15Es. I always heard if you could jump accross the hydraulic puddle under an F-111 in one bound, the jet was good to go.
Another time we heard over the radio that a B-17 was inbound. Course we were all woke up over that and wondered if we heard correctly! Anyway it was the plane they used for the Memphis Belle movie coming down from Duxford for an upcoming airshow. They let us get touchy feely with it after it landed and let me say that it bled oil like a stuck pig! All over the underside of the wings, fuselage and engine housings. Real messy.
An F-14 I saw at a different airshow also looked very leaky.
TF
And they wonder where their empire went.........;)
Been thinking on this one and I now have the noisiest I've ever heard - that guy with the jet pack; saw him at an airshow a good 20 years ago and it was earsplitting. Like a gas cylinder exploding, but it just kept on going - and this was from a good quarter of a mile away. Anyone else ever seen/heard that thing?
Duncan
I've jumped out of enough DC-3s to know they do the same...in fact, most carry a 50 gallon drum of oil with a hand pump in the back where ever they go.
I did as a kid in Buffalo. Bell Aerospace was in Niagara Falls (Wheatfield actually, a suburb) and they'd come around for demonstrations from time to time. Didn't seem THAT loud, but its been a hellava long time now. The guy that flew it back in the day wanted to bring back the concept a few years back, but didn't get very far.
-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger
Saw it a couple of times in Disneyland. Started around the time the park opened in 1955 (maybe a couple of years later, I don't remember).
Disney collectors wll pay well over $100 for the post card of it in Tommorrowland.
Tom
Aircraft go through a lot of dynamic stresses, which is bound to loosen things up here and there. Of course, most automobiles have filthy engine compartments unless they're show cars or brand new or have just been steam cleaned, and my limited experience with boats makes me think they're even worse.
Mark Schynert
Most newer cars stay pretty clean. I have 2 Toyotas, 4 and 7 years old and neither one has ever had a leak of any kind. Road dirt yes. I'm just surprised at the amount of leaks you guys are talking about. Especially newer planes and hydrolic oil.
Engines and such are easy........heat, seals have to be looser when cold so they aren't too tight when at speed. For naval aircraft the hydraulics is easy too............at 100mph forward speed, drop your Toyota 20 feet and make it stop within 90 feet........for 20-40 years!
Couple of airliners spring to mind - Concorde on full afterburner take off was deafening
BAC 1-11 pre noise reduction shook the fillings as well, even though it's Speys were non-AB
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Point taken...
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