Mythbuster Posts Cool Belite / Duct Tape Airplane Video

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You can see brand new video of James Wiebe and the Belite "Duct Tape Airplane"

here:

(http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-duct-tape-plane/)

Look carefully, and you can see what the airplane looked like when they truly finished covering it.

From the Mythbuster website:

I will have many new high resolution pictures of the entire duct tape airplane production, including great closeups of the MythBuster trio.  I will post them on October 20.

Duct Tape Airplane on Mythbusters

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Exactly two weeks to go.

Discovery Channel put out a press release on their upcoming myths.  It's been reprinted in a few places around the web, for instance, on Entertainment Weekly and on Monsters and Critics (dot com):

In the press release, Discovery Channel talked about a whole bunch of myths, but they said this about the one myth that Belite helped with:



"Can you use duct tape to fix a plane that has been mauled by a bear? (As odd as this one sounds, it’s a story that has inundated our fan site message boards for years!)"

It's gonna be big.  BIG.

Photoshop, Mythbusters, Belite, Bears, Kari and Duct Tape

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My friends at Mythbusters production company kept telling me that I would probably have four weeks warning before the big episode aired.  I actually got two weeks and one day, and the notice didn't come from them, it came from someone who read the Mythbuster's website and inquired if the episode in question involved us.

Uh, yes!  it does!

Here's a link to a video which the MB gang talks about the myth, tested with a Belite aircraft.

And here's a link to the Discovery / Mythbuster programming schedule which discloses our upcoming episode.

Quoting the Discovery channel / Mythbuster schedule:

"Adam and Jamie test three viral videos featuring the extraordinary excavator: Can it really row a barge? Be used to go wakeboarding? Perform seemingly impossible feats of acrobatics? Then -- using only duct tape -- Kari, Grant, and Tory attempt to patch up a plane that's had an unfortunate encounter with a bear."

And now, I confess to some photoshop sleight of hand. 

Check out these two photos, one of which I previously posted, and tell me what the difference is:

Grant, James, Kari, Tory, Jennifer

Grant, James, Kari, Tory, Jennifer, and something else

The first photo was on my website.  The second photo is the original; I edited it to avoid letting the cat out of the bag too early (that our myth involved duct tape.)

Nashua 357 duct tape.  Accept no substitute!

I have many more photos which I will be posting after the episode airs on the 19th of October.  Including photos of Kari acting very beary.

"Bird Dog" Utralight Aircraft for sale

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We have another 4130 Chromaloy steel fuselage Belite aircraft available for near term delivery at a substantially discounted price.  It is available in a tricycle gear configuration for $15,100 or in a taildragger configuration for $13,900.

Details are important:

a. This aircraft is brand new, and includes a brand spanking new F33 Hirth engine with new prop.
b.  This aircraft is Ready To Fly.
c.  Rear fuselage covering NOT included.
d.  Only the wings are painted, and the color they've been painted is drab olive green --- aka military green.
e.  Tricycle version includes disc brakes.
f.  Taildragger version does not include brakes.
g.  Spring landing gear NOT included.  $400 option.
h.  Includes Polycarbonate windshield.
i.  Does NOT include engine cowling.  $350 option.
j.   If you would like it completely covered and completely painted, add $4000.
k.  Instruments include ASI, Inclinometer, AGL Altimeter, EGT/CHT, and tachometer.
l.  FAR Part 103 legal in either configuration.
m.  Approximate weight is 240 pounds in taildragger configuration, 252 pounds in trike config.
n.  Deposit of $2500 seals the deal.  Call Kathy @ 316 253 6746 if you are interested.
o.  Includes electric start on engine and battery.

These are pics which we delivered of an olive green airplane a while back.  It is exactly representative of this new offering, with full covering, paint:

Belite Tricycle Gear Ultralight Aircraft takes off

Belite Ultralight Aircraft taxis in