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  1. Scooper

    What aviation news, blogs or e-mail newsletters do you actively read?

    AVweb, e-Pilot (AOPA), EAA, Kitplanes, Aviation Week & Space Technology, Air Force Association, Pilots of America, BeechTalk, SportPilotTalk
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    Builder in Toronto Canada CH-640 and Bearhawk5

    The only tips I can offer on the CH640 is that if you plan to have adult passengers in the rear seat, make sure you check out the options to lower the rear seats, move the rear seats aft by 2.5" to give a little more legroom, and raise the rear seat cabin roof to provide more rear seat headroom...
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    I'd rather assemble than build

    I own and fly an AMD CH601XLiB Zodiac factory built SLSA which I recertificated as experimental so I could perform my own maintenance and modifications (like ADS-B out UAT installation) and then took the Light Sport Repairman-Inspection course. With the diploma from the LSR-I course, I applied...
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    Hi I whant to buy aircraft like this or aircraft no more than 70 kg

    I found a 1981 copy of "Ultralight Aircraft: The Basic Handbook of Ultralight Aviation" by Michael A. Markowski packed away with some of my old books and looking through it for powered ultralights weighing around 70 kg or less (published empty weight), I found these thirteen that qualified based...
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    Hi I whant to buy aircraft like this or aircraft no more than 70 kg

    Way too heavy for the OP's requirements. An Aerolite 103 with a Hirth F-33 weighs 235 pounds (106.6 kg). We still don't know why he needs something in the 60-70 kg range (the thread title says less than 70 kg, but in post 5 the OP says less than 60 kg).
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    Hi call me Cooper, just got a J3 kitten by Hipps superbirds

    Good advice.
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    Hi call me Cooper, just got a J3 kitten by Hipps superbirds

    Welcome Soupercooper; I'm another Cooper a bit north of you in Sonoma County. That Reliant SX looks pretty cool. Here's the FAA Registry on your J-3 Kitten N3978W. The biggest issue you'll face flying under 103 is whether it meets the requirements of the FAR regarding empty weight, fuel...
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    Flight Club - Ultralight Build Log

    Congratulations to Flight Club Aerospace for recognition by AOPA! California students building electric ultralight from scratch - AOPA
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    Hi I whant to buy aircraft like this or aircraft no more than 70 kg

    Yeah; that's thrust vectoring using raw muscle power. ;)
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    Hi I whant to buy aircraft like this or aircraft no more than 70 kg

    If I were just sixty years younger. :oops:
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    Hummel Windwagon

    I think I screwed up. Looking at photos of a Hummel Bird with the canopy open it looks like the top longeron is lower on the fuselage by design, so the plane @Efliernz was looking at doesn't appear to have the top longerons cut. :oops: Canopy open. Canopy closed.
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    Hummel Windwagon

    Yikes! With the top longerons cut like that to make more cockpit room it looks to me like the fuselage structure has been seriously compromised. Walking away was smart.
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    Hummel Windwagon

    I have a copy of the Hummel H5 plans which includes both taildragger and tricycle gear options. I believe the tri gear could be fitted to the Hummel Bird and Ultracruiser by beefing up the appropriate airframe structure. H5 with tri gear:
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    Hi I whant to buy aircraft like this or aircraft no more than 70 kg

    If it is a Wheeler (Skycraft) Scout as Tiger Tim suggested in might be, it was designed to conform to the Australian "under 180 kg" ultralight class. Wheeler (Skycraft) Scout
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    Hi I whant to buy aircraft like this or aircraft no more than 70 kg

    No, I don't. From what I've read in responses to your enquiry it appears nobody knows exactly what that aircraft model is in the photo you posted. It is pretty clearly an early ultralight.
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    Hi I whant to buy aircraft like this or aircraft no more than 70 kg

    Gil, the empty weight of the Dream Classic is 223 pounds for the speed wing version and 241 pounds for the standard wing. This information and all of the specifications are at the link Aerowerx provided in his post. Standard wing Heavy hauler With rotax 447 Stall speed 26 mph Cruise speed 57...
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    Hi I whant to buy aircraft like this or aircraft no more than 70 kg

    More about Dean Scott's modifications here: About Skyhopper Ultralight.
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    Hi I whant to buy aircraft like this or aircraft no more than 70 kg

    60 kg sounds dangerous. Even the Woodhopper was 66 kg. The Aerotechnics Skyhopper 3000 was designed to comply with the German 120 kg (gross weight) rule. Aerotechnics Skyhopper-3000 - Wikipedia
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    Hi how are ya?

    Welcome, Robbie!
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    Preparing to build a TBD

    Thanks for that. That's probably going to work for most folks, but with my fat fingers it may be a problem. It would certainly take me longer to change squawk codes than just hitting five buttons on my GTX 327.
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