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    Provocative Places to Unfold My Wings

    Plenty of free water. It comes right down from the sky, hydrating all the airplanes, and hydrating your clothes, and hydrating the mosquitoes.
    Post by: Victor Bravo, Apr 24, 2019 at 7:47 PM in forum: Hangar Flying
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    Cantilever parasol wings?

    This is getting a little further away from antique style parasols, but I think it is still a little relevant. And before anyone gets annoyed,...
    Post by: Victor Bravo, Apr 24, 2019 at 5:28 PM in forum: Hangar Flying
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    Pietenpole steel tube fuselage

    Not exactly, I was not wanting to suggest certified Cub parts. Dakota Cub and Wag-Aero stuff is fairly expensive because it's being done under...
    Post by: Victor Bravo, Apr 24, 2019 at 4:19 PM in forum: Hangar Flying
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    Pietenpole steel tube fuselage

    Thread drift, sorry, sue me: There needs to be an aluminum tube and gusset Pietenpol, or a Piet-ish replica parasol monoplane using AL tube and...
    Post by: Victor Bravo, Apr 24, 2019 at 9:18 AM in forum: Hangar Flying
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    Provocative Places to Unfold My Wings

    **** the all night coffee shop in town, I will cheerfully introduce you to at least one group of nefarious all-night campers who infest the...
    Post by: Victor Bravo, Apr 24, 2019 at 8:57 AM in forum: Hangar Flying
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    Provocative Places to Unfold My Wings

    Chopsie, if you do go I have some good advice. Pack lunch and snacks in a backpack, extra socks, etc. Oshkosh will try to bleed every last cent...
    Post by: Victor Bravo, Apr 24, 2019 at 4:37 AM in forum: Hangar Flying
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    Hello from the San Fernando Valley

    Our EAA chapter at Whiteman has one or two FX guys (one of which is a powder card), a retired studio exec, and other assorted ne'er do wells. The...
    Post by: Victor Bravo, Apr 23, 2019 at 11:43 PM in forum: New Member Introductions
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    Consensus on Lightest FAR 103 Wing Design

    Yes, but a bucket full of brass and steel turnbuckles, and steel tangs, and steel bolts, and steel cable, and another whole set of ribs and...
    Post by: Victor Bravo, Apr 23, 2019 at 11:11 PM in forum: The light stuff area
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    Northrop N9

    Very sad. Prayers and kind thoughts for the pilot's family, the museum, and the entire warbird/antique community.
    Post by: Victor Bravo, Apr 23, 2019 at 6:03 PM in forum: Hangar Flying
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    Consensus on Lightest FAR 103 Wing Design

    One other light weight wing that may be relevant to this discussion is the Fauvel derivative ultralight from Jean-Claude Debreyer, the Pelican. He...
    Post by: Victor Bravo, Apr 23, 2019 at 5:50 PM in forum: The light stuff area
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    Replace Rotax 503 with Simonini Victor 1

    Jack Hart's website is definitely a huge gift to the ultralight community, the Kolb community, etc. A real live engineer who purposefully and...
    Post by: Victor Bravo, Apr 23, 2019 at 5:45 PM in forum: 2-Stroke Aircaft Engines
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    Consensus on Lightest FAR 103 Wing Design

    I believe you would have to completely abandon the tandem wing "stall-proof canard" thing, and set both main wings at the same incidence, and move...
    Post by: Victor Bravo, Apr 23, 2019 at 5:42 PM in forum: The light stuff area
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    Cantilever parasol wings?

    That computer model looks beautiful, but in the last rendering in post #92 it appears that the plywood sheeting on the leading eedge may not go...
    Post by: Victor Bravo, Apr 22, 2019 at 6:51 PM in forum: Hangar Flying
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    HomeBuilt Ultralight- Father and Son Edition!

    If you have free welding available then the Legal Eagle is going to be very very very high on that list of candidate airplanes. The airplane can...
    Post by: Victor Bravo, Apr 22, 2019 at 6:45 PM in forum: Hangar Flying
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    For Sale HKS 700E engine, Kolb Firestar, Avid Flyer B airframe, A-65 Continental engine

    If I built such an aircraft, it would have the O-100 or the V twin.
    Post by: Victor Bravo, Apr 21, 2019 at 8:05 PM in forum: For Sale / Wanted
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