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Ppeter hudson replied to the thread Modern day "motorcycle of the air" aircraft class?.Maybe a seat that slides to either side for roll control (ala early wright bros) and fore/aft for pitch; and the handlebars provide the...
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Ppeter hudson replied to the thread Modern day "motorcycle of the air" aircraft class?.I think the inspiration for a flying motorcycle has been around for a while. Here are a couple more that had trouble with too little...
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Ppeter hudson replied to the thread Modern day "motorcycle of the air" aircraft class?.Here are some real life examples :) grabbed from Motorcycle Art - webBikeWorld
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Ppeter hudson replied to the thread Echo (Ultralight Self-Launching Sailplane).Like an X-29 but slower A couple of posts ago I decided to look into an asymmetric layup for the wing skins in order to generate some...
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Ppeter hudson replied to the thread What do you think about "e-soaring"?.That was a nice video to watch...It seems he wasn't concerned about the trim drag of the high mounted prop, but just the airflow at the...
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Ppeter hudson replied to the thread What do you think about "e-soaring"?.I'm still thinking about one vs two motor pods. With one (my current plan), I need (analytically) over 5 degrees of elevator to trim...
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Ppeter hudson replied to the thread What do you think about "e-soaring"?.At least the solar panels are in the wing, so a second set of wings can use the same spar design (molds) for the solar wings model. The...
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Ppeter hudson replied to the thread What do you think about "e-soaring"?.I was just using John.Roo's imaginary 6m2 1kw panel from his post as a baseline. If I look at Amazon's available flexible solar panels...
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Ppeter hudson replied to the thread What do you think about "e-soaring"?.my ultralight sailplane design right now is 32:1 at 64 ft/sec (44 mph) and 485 lb mtow which works out 120 ft/min down normally ...at...
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P49.5 ft span , 450Lb usable payload ; it's the highest AR Atos glider ever made . This one can handle those heavy Rotax engines. That...
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Ppeter hudson replied to the thread What do you think about "e-soaring"?.I was just reminded of the Solar Riser. 2.6 kw motor with reduction belt, 30V nicad battery 350 Watts of solar cells. the operation...
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Right - Sunseeker Duo is really able to sustain flight without using battery power. And that is a "holy grail" of e-soaring ;) But as I... -
Ppeter hudson replied to the thread What do you think about "e-soaring"?.With my light wing loading the gust loads become a factor in my envelope (5.7g per the basic glider criteria) Bumping up just a little...
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Ppeter hudson replied to the thread What do you think about "e-soaring"?.That's pretty close to my project goals for Echo: MTOW = 220 kg Vne = 185 kph Price? Well it's a home-built structure (no price...
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Ppeter hudson replied to the thread Echo (Ultralight Self-Launching Sailplane).Stall Behavior (revisited) I was thinking about the local lift coefficient approach I’d used to satisfy myself I would have reasonable...
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