kjv1993
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After watching a movie about pilots a few weeks ago, it really got me going on this whole airplane thing. I have been spending almost all my free time looking at ultralights and videos of people in flight and everything else regarding flying. It got me set that this spring, I am building an ultralight.
I started looking for plans, and that is where the trouble starts. I downloaded the plans for the Affordaplane, but its too big for what I want. I found a few other similar types of plans, but none of them really stood out to me. So it got me set on possibly designing my own plane (the wright brothers did it!). My idea is to take the affordaplane plans and use them as a reference. I like the style of the plane, I just think its too big especially since I want it to be portable (remove wing for transportation). I really like those smaller powered gliders and sailplanes. My plan is to scale it down so that the wing area to weight ratio is still the same, just more compact.
So how does this sound? I have pretty good building experience with various mechanical projects over the years. Is this something I could pull off without killing myself, or is there something I don't understand?
I started looking for plans, and that is where the trouble starts. I downloaded the plans for the Affordaplane, but its too big for what I want. I found a few other similar types of plans, but none of them really stood out to me. So it got me set on possibly designing my own plane (the wright brothers did it!). My idea is to take the affordaplane plans and use them as a reference. I like the style of the plane, I just think its too big especially since I want it to be portable (remove wing for transportation). I really like those smaller powered gliders and sailplanes. My plan is to scale it down so that the wing area to weight ratio is still the same, just more compact.
So how does this sound? I have pretty good building experience with various mechanical projects over the years. Is this something I could pull off without killing myself, or is there something I don't understand?
