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Flea style "Piojo Flying MiniBike"

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FritzW

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With so many flying motorcycle ideas popping up on the Modern day "motorcycle of the air" aircraft class? thread, and not getting much beyond the "concept art" stage, I thought I'd start this thread to try and zero in on just one of the ideas and try to move it forward.

This version would be more of a flying minibike than a flying motorcycle. A safe, very simple, inexpensive fun flyer. Something that could be built in a few months by an inexperienced builder who has limited cash, tools, space and free time. The more it could it could fold up and/or come apart for transportation and storage the better.

So far the idea is just a simplified HM-14 with the wing gap of the HM 360 so the pilot can walk between the wings and get on it like a motorcycle.

Flygande_Loppan_500px.jpg + HM 360_380.jpg + FleaFormula.jpg = El Piojo 15.jpg


Two big challenges I see right off the bat: (any advise/suggestions welcome)
1) I don't know squat about Mignet Formula design or tandem wings.
2) I'm not sure how the mono-wheel is going to work out on such a short coupled airplane, but I REALLY like the simplicity.
 
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