Recent content by Daleandee

I was always taught, "If it sounds too good to be true ... it is!"

If you have some time, a bit of 6061, and a few flanges you can put one together pretty quick: https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/appages/ductflanges.php

I don't really have a dog in this hunt but I prefer moderate moderators .... :cool:

I have flapped wings that don't flap ... BTW, how are you guys coming up with two digit numbers? :popcorn:

The voice of experience? :oops:

My answer comes from the Al Borland collection; "I don't think so Tim." In my limited experience around ultralights for a number of years I've seen a lot of "looks like a duck" aircraft but the walk was a little heavy footed and the quack had a little too much baritone. But as BBerson noted...

For many years there was a wonderful American Sonex Association gathering at KCSV in Crossville Tennessee (the home of Trade-A-Plane). Not necessarily recommending this particular airport but the location brought many from up & down the east coast, down to Texas, and over from Kansas for the...

Modern auto design is more about making the passenger compartment a "cage" of sorts with good restraints and air cushions (bags) where impacts will likely be met (forward & sides). The rest of the vehicle is designed to crumple and absorb energy in the process. Certainly insurers know its much...

That will be called either the BRS race series or the demolition derby class ...

Whatever I have in the "play money" account ...:pilot:

I don't know the answer but I'd guess it is "no" as we are talking about the certification and not the registration of the aircraft. Whatever it was it will be again, even with a new registration. Gross is set at the time of AW certification and even if the airplane could enter phase one and be...

Besides the fact that it has a registered gross at 1500 lbs., there isn't any path forward for making an experimental amateur built aircraft into a ELSA registered aircraft. Years ago there was a window opened to do this for a short time and many planes that we EAB were allowed to be registered...

Trust me when I tell you that John knows ... :fear:

What does the airplane do at idle power in a glide? Could it be that the engine was mounted off set or so that the engine is out of line with the airframe? Could the root tube be damaged from a hard landing or crash? If the nose continues to come up I suspect W&B concerns (see below). Have you...

I use wig-wags as seen in this short video (see them on landing at 2:30): Here is the how and why of my install: