Static "port"

[mulwyk]

Re: Static "port"

Tim:
great picture. A wood and steel machine!

You're onto a little backwater of the art world called "steampunk". The steampunk artists paint, photograph (or even make their own) pseudo-Victorian machines. They live in a alternate-history, post-industrial, non-electrical idealized world. Steampunkers love dirigibles but would be fascinated by a stock Taylorcraft. And I think most T-craft fans would appreciate steampunk art.

Google "steampunk" if you'd like to see more or go the great UK based steampunk forum called brass goggles.

[VictorBravo]

Re: Static "port"

You're onto a little backwater of the art world called "steampunk". The steampunk artists paint, photograph (or even make their own) pseudo-Victorian machines.

So these perverts get off on sort of a Jules Verne kink... I like it! There's hope for free thought after all...

Try to get these guys interested in modern recreations of the early unsuccessful aircraft designs, such as the "Aerial Steam Carriage" , "Wenham's Aerial Locomotion" and numerous other fantasies that never quite made it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_Steam_Carriage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoplane_(1874)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_F._Ritchel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatin_flying_machine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flugan

[TimHicks]

Re: Static "port"

Here's a pic of my static port as installed. Pearson asked if I've checked my speeds with this setup. Really, the answer is no. Not well enough to document whether this is a good idea or not. When I did this, I didn't know anything about Taylorcrafts, but other planes that I had flown had something like this. So I just did it.
I'm pretty sure that my airspeed indicator reads in the right ballpark. Maybe it indicates slightly (3-5ish mph) below actual airspeed in cruise. This is just anecdotally surmised by comparing it to a GPS in various wind conditions and making mental averages over many flights. Nothing scientific.

[Forrest Barber]

Re: Static "port"

They came from the factory with port out in the wing, inside cabin varies with the cabin of course. We did find a good place for the F-19 & up on the fuselage. IF you are IFR use the two line system out to the jury strut and forward, IF you are just a plain old Taylorcraft put it out into the wing; that "comforms to the TC".