Posted Tuesday, April 3, 2007 @ 10:18 PM
Hi Guys,
Here's a very simple modification you can make if, like me, you want to take stuff with you and fly a few aerobatics along the way, without things flying out of the baggage compartment and hitting you on the head!
Materials: Four 'cup hooks' - small metal screw-in hooks (or rings) you can get from the hardware store. Leave two closed and open out two.
A length of elastic bungee.
A two-foot (60 cm) length of strong cord.
A square metre (yard) of slightly elastic nylon? netting. I got this from a boat chandlers, but also found something similar but with a smaller weave sold in a hardware store as a laundry bag.
Thread the bungee through three sides of the mesh. Thread the cord through the fourth. Screw the four rings into the luggage shelf, stretch the bungee around them, close the rings, tie the cord tightly across the back. EASY!
With Alan Cassidy's excellent aerobatic book, a couple of aerobatics VCDs, a camera and a fistful of notes in there, I was still able to fly aeros to +6/-2g without fear of distraction.
Go for it.
Yours, Bob
