Piloot
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I was looking around at Home built Airplane and Ultralight News, and I found out about Ding Shuli, a Chinese automobile mechanic that made 2-3 airplanes for incredibly cheap prices. I know another forum post was made on this subject, but I want to explore how he was able to construct his super cheap "$400 Airplane". The Tri-Motor Monoplane will be the focus, but feel free to look at his biplane, and I do recall an older monoplane, post it if you can find it. From the articles and pictures, it looks to be a steel/aluminum tube welded airplane, but with unknown wing ribs. It uses plastic cloth for wing covering.(Which at first glance at the pictures I thought was a burlap sack). I already know of a few design flaws from the previous thread on this subject matter, the wing leading edge is too sharp, and the control surfaces are super thin.
Feel free to post and speculate about this and discuss the incredibly cheap methods he, and many other people around the world, use to make these... Flying machines.
Self-made aircraft*makes test flight
$400 Chinese Homebuilt Tri-Motor - AVweb flash Article
Amateur Ding Shilu spends 4 years building aircraft but crashes it straight away | Daily Mail Online
Ding Shilu takes off on self-made $395 bike airplane | Hidden Harmonies China Blog
Feel free to post and speculate about this and discuss the incredibly cheap methods he, and many other people around the world, use to make these... Flying machines.
Self-made aircraft*makes test flight
$400 Chinese Homebuilt Tri-Motor - AVweb flash Article
Amateur Ding Shilu spends 4 years building aircraft but crashes it straight away | Daily Mail Online
Ding Shilu takes off on self-made $395 bike airplane | Hidden Harmonies China Blog
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