You can use an old smartphone with HUD speed, GPS, compass, whatever you can find an app for. been using that for speedometer for awhile now in my truck simce the speedo is broken.
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What Side Should The Door Be On?
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Folks
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Yeah that's it. We're just all "Terra Pilots". that;s it.
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I HAVE contemplated the question of what it would take to make an Elio fly. Should be almost light enough. Throw on some wings, couple props on the front wheel drive shafts.......
goldwing06
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well, u don't want to have another ford pinto disaster but because of the weight locations of the elio, it doesn't lend it self to being made into a flying vehicle without some major adaptations. first u need to define the performance parameters and then design the aeronautical components around those dimensions. there is no way to make it meet lsa requirements so a pvt/sel would be the minimum pilot certifications. the ability to have it convertible and be able to tow its own airframe is probably not feasible. taking it through certification would too expensive so maybe u could get it approved for experimental category certification. just the ac components to make it into an ac would put the cost over fifty thousand bucks for engine, airframe, instrumentation, communications and any safety items like brs. then some sort of integration of the flight control system to work with or in addition to the automotive type controls of the vehicle. finally, all of the ac components would probably weigh at least as much as the original vehicle, so would the suspension support that much extra weight and landing loads? it would also require some extra frame components be added, for mounting the ac parts to the elio frame. the most practical configuration would be a high wing with strut bracing and some sort of a tail cone for mounting the elevator and rudder. i tell ya, i keep seeing a Cessna 337 flying components with just the rear engine, mounted onto the elio vehicle frame, very similar to the flying pinto of yore.
trock59
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Motorcycles don't normally have any doors- or a roll cage frame either so I'll feel safer in my elio doors or not!
You always mount a horse on the left, I've always got on my bike on the left side, (maybe some psycological hitch or something), and you get into your car to drive on the left here in the US. So probably the left WOULD feel the most natural for the Elio door.
Yes. And if it were on the right, there would be nothing to open to reach the drive thru window?
zelio
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Umm, do I dare admit I never saw the dukes of hazards? :-) Z
Truett Collins
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Some of us could not accomplish that any more.......