It’s physics, maths and engineering. Imagine it, design it, make it, test it, break it. Every time you build something new the whole world moves forward. I can see Trent has Mike Patey’s philosophy in his blood.😮 Brilliant idea!
I love it! Before I got my tailwheel rating I used to get in trouble at work for "Playing" with the pallet jacks, I ride them around work in both tricycle and tailwheel config... my co-workers were asking why I needed a rating to fly tailwheels... so I had them stand on a pallet jack and ride it like a scooter in both directions and they understood the problem pretty quick.
Excellent idea. Another great way to learn tail wheel is to fly WWI and WWII flight sims. I did that for several years before going to get my tailwheel endorsement. I ended up getting my endorsement in just 2.7 hrs. I attribute that quick endorsement time to my simulator experience.
What a cool experiment! Maybe you could team up with Mike Patey and Best Tugs to create a production version. It would also be cool to bring a few to AirVenture - you could charge people like $10-20 for a quick session (and time trial course with a big leaderboard) putting all the money toward a cool aviation charity.
Great idea Trent. Proof it works is in the video and for the newbie pilots with the fear of ground loops this would definetly take the edge off. I wish you luck.
I fixed the ground looping on my RC airplanes by Re-locating the main gear under the CG. (A ground loop on a tail dragger, or conventional landing gear aircraft, is primarily caused by the center of gravity being located behind the main wheels )
I think that would help teaching tailwheel a lot. The biggest thing people do is get on the brake when they just want rudder, or nail the rudder and forget the brake. If you can tune it such that it teaches when to use what, that would help a lot with ground handling. I think the next step would be to put a spring on one side of the tailwheel to bias the system. That would simulate the airplane wanting to weather-vain on the ground or perhaps help people understand that it will need some right rudder on take off. The idea is once people have decent ground handling, then put a wrench in the system to enforce that you must keep it straight even if it's fighting with you.
I hope you have a patent on it. Don't know of you and your co-inventor plan on marketing this but you certainly could market it to flight schools etc. Maybe take to EAA Air venture and flight shows.
Longer wheel span and possibly a wider front wheel footprint. Great job Trent. definitely on to something here. Everyone benefits when an idea is created and sourced to exhibit a potential learning tool.
Trent, great idea, I wonder how powering it from the mains with a differential effects the simulation? A differential will pull harder on one side or the other depending on how it is setup. May be prop powered is a worse idea..... Wonder how you could incorporate simulating cross wind? A major factor in many ground loops. Perhaps a center wheel to shift the weight to one main.
get together with mike patey on this.. he has distribution already set up with best tugs. would be a cool colab.. plus im sure he might have some good input. would be cool to see you in biz with patey...
And the Patey's already have the production facilities to produce these on a larger scale. As Yoghurt said, merchandising Merchandising Merchandising...
The differential is brilliant. I wanted to make one of these 20 years ago but I couldn’t think of a way to make it prop (air) driven without being hazardous. Suggestion for version 2 from a CFI with 3,000 hr dual given tailwheels and an AE degree. 1 longer tail moment replicating the dimensions of a piper pacer. 2 move cg forward to a comparable ratio to a piper pacer (might need a couple ballast boxes to adjust for rider weights like a 2 seat glider). IMO a pacer is a good bench mark for tailwheel skill and being short coupled it’s an easy airplane to replicate.
Trent, this is an awesome idea. I really like the way you have incorporated some adjustability (or planned for it in future) to simulate different CG’s or longer/shorter coupling. Here’s a couple of further ideas: lower the main wheels to create a sitting attitude more similar to that of a TW aircraft and/or put some kind of fake panel in front of the operator’s view to better simulate the impaired sight picture you get when taxiing, 3 point landing or high speed roll out from a wheel landing. The latter being a precursor to many ground loop incidents.
you could also get and old retired fuselage and use that, hang wieght on the front all that jazz . The entire concept is great. I trained in tail wheels in my basic flight training
THAT is brilliant!!! Sure there are differences, but everything else we drive around these days are complete OPPOSITE of what we need to learn in airplanes.
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Cool ! It reminds me of those Wooden “flight simulators” that were used to train pilots before WWII.
Trent, my recommendation would be to put a longer 'tail' (fuselage) on the thing so it's not so short coupled, and also put a rudder on it. If it were perfected, you'd have a marketable training tool. Every tailwheel student required to put in 3 hours on the 'trainer' before strapping on a t/w airplane.
When I was 6, I had a "coaster" with center pivot steering in front, similar to a wagon. With my feet on the front cross member, to turn right I pushed my left foot forward and to turn left I pushed my right foot forward. Your cart would go a long ways to help retrain my muscle memory. Good Invention!
Great idea! I think that if you used an actual plans dimensions and scale it down, say 1/4 th scale, you would be closer to the real effect. Really nice job though for the prototype. I really like the concept.
Love it! As A CFI with a tailwheel airplane, I can immediately see the value. I'd love to buy a set of plans off of you to build one. But failing that, any info you're willing to share. This is definitely going on the winter project list.
Fun. I seem to remember a sofa version on TH-cam. I'm with you that you really need to experience it - the only way to learn. When you get it I think that you make much smaller corrections a lot EARLIER
@TrentPalmer, are you familiar with Destin Sandlin's "Smarter Every Day" TH-cam channel? He's made a bicycle that steers backwards (The Backwards Brain Bicycle - Smarter Every Day 133). It seems like it would be easy, to get accustomed to but he's proven that NOBODY can ride that bike without MONTHS of practice. But I have a theory (hypothesis actually) that pilots would have an advantage over the rest of the population. The counterintuitive skills that it takes to steer an airplane on the ground might give them a head start on this bike "clicking" in their brain. I think you and Destin might be the perfect people to test my idea, AND you both might get some content out of it. You have a large pool of friends and colleagues to dip into to give this hypothesis the chance it needs to be proven.
I built one. Took me three 30 minute sessions to get it vaguely. But the interesting thing is that although I can now ride it fairly well, i have never got truly comfortable.
Hey Trent as someone that is soon going to start his tailwheel training I really think you should make at least plans available. As someone that is scared to death of groundlooping an airplane I would definitely be interested in taking something like that for a spin. As always thanks for the content.
Nice work Trent! The early birds only had brakes on one side. The instructor was always reluctant to give up his brakes to the student. I’ve seen really good pilots not be able to handle tail wheel.
I think the concept is bang on, but what I would suggest is that the proportions should be the same as a real plane to be representative. So that the ratio between the front wheels roughly matches the distance to the tail wheel of a cub or a fox, plus the general centre of gravity should be about the same as one of those planes in relation to the wheel placement. In the end though, it might not matter because the point is to train the muscle memory rather than be ultra realistic. Adding a time aspect into the taxi course works very well too because it creates an urgency that could easily come from factors outside the control of the pilot, such as a high speed landing or uneven ground. In addition, why not speak to Mike Patey and see if he can make it a ground tugs product and pay you some commission?
Your on to something my man! I'm a 18,000 hr+ pilot 99% Ag work @ night, retired. can't wait to see your cropduster Ty on it. I'm in Elko. anyway great job!!! Hay Man , the insurance co. should pay you! through some weight on the front.
Stunning idea. Don’t give upon it. I would suggest moving the tailwheel back a bit so that the ratio of ‘main gear width and distance back to the tailwheel' is closer to that of the average tail dragger.
Awesome stuff! I think I'd prefer it to be ever so slightly more 'squirrelly' than the real thing, that way there'd be a bit tolerance when doing it for real.
I think if you extend the tail wheel out another foot or 2 it would be less squirrlly as well. But if feel like you are going to have orders for this from a lot of schools!
I think it's a great idea that you have. No take it back home and have her work with it 10 to 15 minutes a day and she will start getting the hang of it. Step on getting her interested in playing. And who knows maybe someday she'll be fine with you and really have to get up in the air or get down out of the air to get you help. and if nothing else it's a nice little toy to go down the driveway to get your mail. Roger Therrien Lawrenceburg TN
I thought about it by similar to this about 6 years ago when I was taking glider training because theoretically a glider behaves just like a taildragger but with one main wheel maybe tougher who knows the idea i had was something similar but with a tail that worked in conjunction with the brakes. but I'm not sure at what speed the tail becomes effective. landing speed Maybe. glider guy.
The best lessons are the ones that come with some level of physical discomfort.. Much like an actual spanking rather than a “talking to” as a child.. To that end and given you have a battery operated vehicle, I suggest a sharp electric jolt incorporated into the seat that’s triggered by the initiation of the ground loop sequence with ever increasing voltage as the loop advances 😂 It may be that the initiation of said “wake up” be in the hands of the observer via remote control…😂 just for added team building and positive reinforcement 😅 The only problem I see with this contraption is it’s total wheelbase is unrealistic to and actual aircraft, we all know the shorter the tongue on a trailer the quicker & more pronounced it’s reaction to input ..
Trent you are a genius. Try to get a patent on this and start selling plans. These things could be used for training but also for fun. You could make a lot of money off this idea.
A friend taught his kids to taxi in a home made one made out of a shopping cart, bike pedals for rudder pedals and towed behind a 200x 3 wheeler in the late 80s. We'd get up to speed, let go of the rope and have to keep it between the orchard rows. It was fun!
@ I learned on my 1940 Luscombe 8B, 65Lycoming. Enough power to get you into trouble, and not much to get you out; and a speed wing too, so not as much lift as my now 100 horse Champ, so I learned to fly the wing and my feet, not the engine, helped me out in Romania learning on the AN-2. And no- fighter jets are not as cool as tailwheel planes; sorry jet jocks, I'll take AN-2, Lancaster, Skyraider, J-3, etc. over any jet.
Seems neat so far, but I wonder - have you done anything to simulate the pfactor, torque, wind, or induced airflow? pfactor I think you could do pretty well with independent motors, and having the left (or right, for lefthand props) motor underpower. Torque I think you could also manage some with independent motors. Wind I think you could do pretty well with either adding a big ol paddle on the back, or if you want to get really complex adding a gps and a fake windsock that broadcasts "wind angle" to the kart. With airflow I'm not sure where I'd start
These were all the thoughts I had that stopped me from building one for years! Haha, all are great ideas but add a ton of complexity to the design and build, so I decided to keep it simple for this one. Would be fun to play around with other ideas though!
This is interesting, I was literally just thinking about how to build something like this for training tailwheel the other day. Great minds think alike.
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It’s physics, maths and engineering. Imagine it, design it, make it, test it, break it. Every time you build something new the whole world moves forward. I can see Trent has Mike Patey’s philosophy in his blood.😮 Brilliant idea!
Man Mike was the first person who came to mind when I saw this as well LOL!
@@Robert-Smith Copied that!
Yes agreed
You're onto something - This is a super helpful training tool - Thanks for it's introduction.
Next step would be to put a small adjustable sail on the back to get the full effect of cross winds.
Put a roll cage on that thing, and I think we have a whole new category of motor sports.
Roll cage? I was thinking flame thrower.
As someone who struggled learning tailwheel, what you're developing here is freakin' brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
Patent it, quick!
I love it! Before I got my tailwheel rating I used to get in trouble at work for "Playing" with the pallet jacks, I ride them around work in both tricycle and tailwheel config... my co-workers were asking why I needed a rating to fly tailwheels... so I had them stand on a pallet jack and ride it like a scooter in both directions and they understood the problem pretty quick.
“All of the coolest airplanes are tailwheel.”
And I took that personally…
further proof that if you give any group of men something with wheels, they will start racing it within 5 minutes
Nose wheel pilot here... I'd be in full groundloop the whole time.
Excellent idea. Another great way to learn tail wheel is to fly WWI and WWII flight sims. I did that for several years before going to get my tailwheel endorsement. I ended up getting my endorsement in just 2.7 hrs. I attribute that quick endorsement time to my simulator experience.
What a cool experiment! Maybe you could team up with Mike Patey and Best Tugs to create a production version. It would also be cool to bring a few to AirVenture - you could charge people like $10-20 for a quick session (and time trial course with a big leaderboard) putting all the money toward a cool aviation charity.
Great idea Trent. Proof it works is in the video and for the newbie pilots with the fear of ground loops this would definetly take the edge off. I wish you luck.
Tailwheel instruction will make you a better pilot. Every flight school should have one of these gadgets.
I fixed the ground looping on my RC airplanes by Re-locating the main gear under the CG. (A ground loop on a tail dragger, or conventional landing gear aircraft, is primarily caused by the center of gravity being located behind the main wheels )
Can i ask why though? I fly my RC 2.1m wingspan carbon cub without any ground looping issues
I think that would help teaching tailwheel a lot. The biggest thing people do is get on the brake when they just want rudder, or nail the rudder and forget the brake. If you can tune it such that it teaches when to use what, that would help a lot with ground handling. I think the next step would be to put a spring on one side of the tailwheel to bias the system. That would simulate the airplane wanting to weather-vain on the ground or perhaps help people understand that it will need some right rudder on take off. The idea is once people have decent ground handling, then put a wrench in the system to enforce that you must keep it straight even if it's fighting with you.
That was fun to watch! A good training tool, but also a good video of pilots doing pilot things at the airport.
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I’m local to Reno and really want to try this! Got my TW last summer and this thing looks like a blast.
GENIUS!!!!
What a great idea!!!
I want one !
This is a better option than a simulator. Absolutely amazing way to train. Thank you
I hope you have a patent on it. Don't know of you and your co-inventor plan on marketing this but you certainly could market it to flight schools etc.
Maybe take to EAA Air venture and flight shows.
Ahh haha! That looks fun. Happy Thanksgiving!
Ideal for all those STOL pilots spending time on the FAA naughty step.
One of my favorite Trent Palmer videos so far
Trent, this is awesome! Thank you for all of your efforts and contributions to aviation safety!
Longer wheel span and possibly a wider front wheel footprint. Great job Trent. definitely on to something here. Everyone benefits when an idea is created and sourced to exhibit a potential learning tool.
Trent, great idea, I wonder how powering it from the mains with a differential effects the simulation? A differential will pull harder on one side or the other depending on how it is setup. May be prop powered is a worse idea..... Wonder how you could incorporate simulating cross wind? A major factor in many ground loops. Perhaps a center wheel to shift the weight to one main.
Awesome video! Someday I want to own a kitfox, love it!
excellent idea, I would love to give it a go.
Cool proof of concept. I see this becoming its own event at the STOL drags. 😂
I think it should be longer
That’s what she said… 🤣
@@TrentonPalmer LOL right on man that thing is cool i would love to play with it
Cool unit. You are a very creative thinker, and a skilled fab guy. 👍👍
get together with mike patey on this.. he has distribution already set up with best tugs. would be a cool colab.. plus im sure he might have some good input. would be cool to see you in biz with patey...
And the Patey's already have the production facilities to produce these on a larger scale.
As Yoghurt said, merchandising
Merchandising
Merchandising...
..think about the legal paper work though. Mike would have to be fully protected against any liability issues.
The differential is brilliant. I wanted to make one of these 20 years ago but I couldn’t think of a way to make it prop (air) driven without being hazardous.
Suggestion for version 2 from a CFI with 3,000 hr dual given tailwheels and an AE degree.
1 longer tail moment replicating the dimensions of a piper pacer.
2 move cg forward to a comparable ratio to a piper pacer (might need a couple ballast boxes to adjust for rider weights like a 2 seat glider).
IMO a pacer is a good bench mark for tailwheel skill and being short coupled it’s an easy airplane to replicate.
Yes! That definitely would help with new TW pilots. It looks like it teaches you to not over react. Very cool.
Pretty cool that you come up with this thinking maybe it will help people❤❤
Trent, this is an awesome idea. I really like the way you have incorporated some adjustability (or planned for it in future) to simulate different CG’s or longer/shorter coupling. Here’s a couple of further ideas: lower the main wheels to create a sitting attitude more similar to that of a TW aircraft and/or put some kind of fake panel in front of the operator’s view to better simulate the impaired sight picture you get when taxiing, 3 point landing or high speed roll out from a wheel landing. The latter being a precursor to many ground loop incidents.
I love your thinking with this!
you could also get and old retired fuselage and use that, hang wieght on the front all that jazz . The entire concept is great. I trained in tail wheels in my basic flight training
THAT is brilliant!!! Sure there are differences, but everything else we drive around these days are complete OPPOSITE of what we need to learn in airplanes.
Cool ! It reminds me of those Wooden “flight simulators” that were used to train pilots before WWII.
This is awesome Trent! I can see this making some good pilots better! Could definitely see it in schools!
Trent, my recommendation would be to put a longer 'tail' (fuselage) on the thing so it's not so short coupled, and also put a rudder on it. If it were perfected, you'd have a marketable training tool. Every tailwheel student required to put in 3 hours on the 'trainer' before strapping on a t/w airplane.
Welcome in Trent Palmer Tailwheel School :D
Thank you, Trent! Great idea and funny "racing". I'm not a pilot but former aviation engineer. Greetings from Ukraine!
When I was 6, I had a "coaster" with center pivot steering in front, similar to a wagon.
With my feet on the front cross member, to turn right I pushed my left foot forward and to turn left I pushed my right foot forward.
Your cart would go a long ways to help retrain my muscle memory.
Good Invention!
Great idea! I think that if you used an actual plans dimensions and scale it down, say 1/4 th scale, you would be closer to the real effect.
Really nice job though for the prototype.
I really like the concept.
Love it! As A CFI with a tailwheel airplane, I can immediately see the value. I'd love to buy a set of plans off of you to build one. But failing that, any info you're willing to share. This is definitely going on the winter project list.
Shoot me an email and I can send you the parts list
Fun. I seem to remember a sofa version on TH-cam. I'm with you that you really need to experience it - the only way to learn. When you get it I think that you make much smaller corrections a lot EARLIER
Dude! That's moving mankind forward. Great to see the progress.
@TrentPalmer, are you familiar with Destin Sandlin's "Smarter Every Day" TH-cam channel? He's made a bicycle that steers backwards (The Backwards Brain Bicycle - Smarter Every Day 133). It seems like it would be easy, to get accustomed to but he's proven that NOBODY can ride that bike without MONTHS of practice.
But I have a theory (hypothesis actually) that pilots would have an advantage over the rest of the population. The counterintuitive skills that it takes to steer an airplane on the ground might give them a head start on this bike "clicking" in their brain.
I think you and Destin might be the perfect people to test my idea, AND you both might get some content out of it. You have a large pool of friends and colleagues to dip into to give this hypothesis the chance it needs to be proven.
Fascinating hypothesis, I hope you get to test it.
I built one. Took me three 30 minute sessions to get it vaguely. But the interesting thing is that although I can now ride it fairly well, i have never got truly comfortable.
@@daedaluscan Ooooh!!! Data point. 😃
Hey Trent as someone that is soon going to start his tailwheel training I really think you should make at least plans available. As someone that is scared to death of groundlooping an airplane I would definitely be interested in taking something like that for a spin. As always thanks for the content.
Nice work Trent! The early birds only had brakes on one side. The instructor was always reluctant to give up his brakes to the student. I’ve seen really good pilots not be able to handle tail wheel.
That is awesome. I want one!
I think the concept is bang on, but what I would suggest is that the proportions should be the same as a real plane to be representative. So that the ratio between the front wheels roughly matches the distance to the tail wheel of a cub or a fox, plus the general centre of gravity should be about the same as one of those planes in relation to the wheel placement. In the end though, it might not matter because the point is to train the muscle memory rather than be ultra realistic. Adding a time aspect into the taxi course works very well too because it creates an urgency that could easily come from factors outside the control of the pilot, such as a high speed landing or uneven ground.
In addition, why not speak to Mike Patey and see if he can make it a ground tugs product and pay you some commission?
This is awesome Trent! There is 100% a viable product here! Love the engineering effort!
I think this would’ve helped a tremendous amount while getting my TW endorsement. Great thinking!
I hope to see this up at Oshkosh. This looks like a great tool and a fun way to introduce people to tail wheel.
That looks like sooooo much fun.
Your on to something my man! I'm a 18,000 hr+ pilot 99% Ag work @ night, retired. can't wait to see your cropduster Ty on it. I'm in Elko. anyway great job!!! Hay Man , the insurance co. should pay you! through some weight on the front.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! Take care out there.
Stunning idea. Don’t give upon it. I would suggest moving the tailwheel back a bit so that the ratio of ‘main gear width and distance back to the tailwheel' is closer to that of the average tail dragger.
This would be a good trainer for newby forklift drivers too. The sensations are very similar.
Consider production.
patent it.
I just push the shopping cart around backwards in the grocery store to stay current. Back in the 90s we called taildraggers “conventional gear”
Awesome stuff! I think I'd prefer it to be ever so slightly more 'squirrelly' than the real thing, that way there'd be a bit tolerance when doing it for real.
My Tailwheel trying was helped by the fact that I had driven a Fork-lift truck lol
I think you've developed and excellent tail wheel pre-trainer. It's a great idea.
There is a flight school that does tailwheel instruction over the mountains in lincoln california, couple hangars down from the TK1 shock shop
I think if you extend the tail wheel out another foot or 2 it would be less squirrlly as well. But if feel like you are going to have orders for this from a lot of schools!
Dude this is sick
I wanted something like that when I was learning tailwheel!
I think this is a fantastic idea!
I think it's a great idea that you have. No take it back home and have her work with it 10 to 15 minutes a day and she will start getting the hang of it. Step on getting her interested in playing. And who knows maybe someday she'll be fine with you and really have to get up in the air or get down out of the air to get you help. and if nothing else it's a nice little toy to go down the driveway to get your mail. Roger Therrien Lawrenceburg TN
Great idea nice job on the build easy to think about hard to finish Can I rent it to train me kids?
caster trike the only difference is the aircraft tail wheel and the rudder set up. Get plenty here in hawaii
That's a great idea!
I thought about it by similar to this about 6 years ago when I was taking glider training because theoretically a glider behaves just like a taildragger but with one main wheel maybe tougher who knows the idea i had was something similar but with a tail
that worked in conjunction with the brakes. but I'm not sure at what speed the tail becomes effective. landing speed Maybe. glider guy.
BRILLIANT!
as a tool for flight training definately has potential great idea
Excellent idea! What is the saying…there are pilots that have ground looped and the rest that will.
When I saw this I kept thinking about all the possibilities your idea has brought with this. Hope you have too.
Looks like a new business is launching. You have your prototype.
Gotta add engine noise
The best lessons are the ones that come with some level of physical discomfort.. Much like an actual spanking rather than a “talking to” as a child.. To that end and given you have a battery operated vehicle, I suggest a sharp electric jolt incorporated into the seat that’s triggered by the initiation of the ground loop sequence with ever increasing voltage as the loop advances 😂 It may be that the initiation of said “wake up” be in the hands of the observer via remote control…😂 just for added team building and positive reinforcement 😅 The only problem I see with this contraption is it’s total wheelbase is unrealistic to and actual aircraft, we all know the shorter the tongue on a trailer the quicker & more pronounced it’s reaction to input ..
A short wheel base is always more sketchy than a long wheel base.
So brilliant
Plans? I NEED one for my high school aviation class! What if you put a electric motor on each wheel?
Trent you are a genius. Try to get a patent on this and start selling plans. These things could be used for training but also for fun. You could make a lot of money off this idea.
Why not put an actual rudder on it too?
Probably not fast enough to really get an effect from airspeed.
I fly one of the shortest coupled tail wheel aircraft you can get. Mk2 Buggy needs to be longer.
Too much FUN!
0:07 Poor dude eating the pavement 😅
A friend taught his kids to taxi in a home made one made out of a shopping cart, bike pedals for rudder pedals and towed behind a 200x 3 wheeler in the late 80s. We'd get up to speed, let go of the rope and have to keep it between the orchard rows. It was fun!
That’s awesome!!
@ I learned on my 1940 Luscombe 8B, 65Lycoming. Enough power to get you into trouble, and not much to get you out; and a speed wing too, so not as much lift as my now 100 horse Champ, so I learned to fly the wing and my feet, not the engine, helped me out in Romania learning on the AN-2.
And no- fighter jets are not as cool as tailwheel planes; sorry jet jocks, I'll take AN-2, Lancaster, Skyraider, J-3, etc. over any jet.
What no seat belt and Shoulder Harnes? If one can't the Rudder Monsters there's the Zenith STOL CH 701/ 750
I absolutely want to build one of these
If you get this dialed in, I could totally see flight instructors buying these to help walk the new pilots threw the ropes!
Seems neat so far, but I wonder - have you done anything to simulate the pfactor, torque, wind, or induced airflow?
pfactor I think you could do pretty well with independent motors, and having the left (or right, for lefthand props) motor underpower.
Torque I think you could also manage some with independent motors.
Wind I think you could do pretty well with either adding a big ol paddle on the back, or if you want to get really complex adding a gps and a fake windsock that broadcasts "wind angle" to the kart.
With airflow I'm not sure where I'd start
These were all the thoughts I had that stopped me from building one for years! Haha, all are great ideas but add a ton of complexity to the design and build, so I decided to keep it simple for this one. Would be fun to play around with other ideas though!
This is interesting, I was literally just thinking about how to build something like this for training tailwheel the other day. Great minds think alike.
I figured I couldn’t be the only one with this idea!
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Eye damage
The intense light and radiation from a welding arc can cause severe eye damage. This includes exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation, visible light, and infrared (IR) radiation.
Flying debris
Hot slag and other metal debris can fly off the weld during cooling, chipping, or grinding.
Fumes and chemicals
Welding can expose you to irritating fumes, vapours, and chemicals.
Cataracts
Long-term exposure to UV and IR light can cause cataracts, which cloud the eye's lens.
Ocular melanoma
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) states that there is evidence that ultraviolet radiation can cause ocular melanoma, a type of eye cancer.
To protect your eyes, you should wear a welding helmet with a filter shade suitable for your welding. The filter plate should be at least shade #10 for general welding up to 200 amps. When chipping or grinding, you should also wear safety glasses with side shields or goggles. Goggles protect better than safety glasses from impact, dust, and radiation hazards."
We were TIG welding, not ARC, but yes, that clip of Matt holding the part while I made a quick tac was not a demonstration of good practice