StanFoster
Active Member
- Joined
- Nov 16, 2003
- Messages
- 17,139
- Location
- Paxton, Il
- Aircraft
- Helicycle N360SF
- Total Flight Time
- 1250
I have the Turbinator all fueled for a 6 a.m. flight to go measure a stairway in an 18,000 square foot home. I will be commuting via chopper many times in the late summer early fall. Each flight will save me 2.5 hours of commuting time and that will way more than pay for my kerosene sucking turbine.
I have my rotary laser stowed under my seat and a 9 foot spile secured to my tail boom. Steak dinner to the first one that can explain to me how I will measure a parabolic wall with a spile. This method is very simple, but almost unheard of. I have seen it used to do straight measurements....but my curved stairbuilding had me adapt a way to do curved measurements very accurately. With this method...I will be able to build the three stair sections and KNOW with confidence that they will fit the curved walls without the need of any trim.
I will post pictures of the operation tomorrow including videos flying around and over this behemoth of a home.
I did a proctology exam up my turbine exhaust with my cell phone camera. All looks good on the Turbinator for tomorrows stair mission. The contractor is so excited about tomorrow.
Here are some pictures of the home I took last week, and a magazine shot of the stairway they would like me to build. The first tread on the center flared section is over 14 foot wide and narrows down to 6.5 feet at the top. The top sections are elliptical mirror images of each other and will return directly back 180 degrees from the center section. The upper balcony will have curved railing coming out over a widows walk.
This will be the largest stairway I have ever built.....even bigger than the Bruce Artwick stairway. However, those that know the story behind the Loris House stairway know that stairway , though much smaller, much less complicated, and a fraction of this stairways cost means more to me that any stairway I have ever built.
Pictures and videos coming after tomorrows mission.
Stan
I have my rotary laser stowed under my seat and a 9 foot spile secured to my tail boom. Steak dinner to the first one that can explain to me how I will measure a parabolic wall with a spile. This method is very simple, but almost unheard of. I have seen it used to do straight measurements....but my curved stairbuilding had me adapt a way to do curved measurements very accurately. With this method...I will be able to build the three stair sections and KNOW with confidence that they will fit the curved walls without the need of any trim.
I will post pictures of the operation tomorrow including videos flying around and over this behemoth of a home.
I did a proctology exam up my turbine exhaust with my cell phone camera. All looks good on the Turbinator for tomorrows stair mission. The contractor is so excited about tomorrow.
Here are some pictures of the home I took last week, and a magazine shot of the stairway they would like me to build. The first tread on the center flared section is over 14 foot wide and narrows down to 6.5 feet at the top. The top sections are elliptical mirror images of each other and will return directly back 180 degrees from the center section. The upper balcony will have curved railing coming out over a widows walk.
This will be the largest stairway I have ever built.....even bigger than the Bruce Artwick stairway. However, those that know the story behind the Loris House stairway know that stairway , though much smaller, much less complicated, and a fraction of this stairways cost means more to me that any stairway I have ever built.
Pictures and videos coming after tomorrows mission.
Stan