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    Horsepower to thrust/weight to lift.

    Thank you so much and I will certainly look into that book. Probably all three books since I'm getting deployed next year and need reading material. How to figure the Coefficients of Lift and Drag are the biggest thing lost on me right. Not only have you helped my kind of grasp my own question...
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    Horsepower to thrust/weight to lift.

    OK, I am following a set of plans for a build but now I am just pondering aircraft design and am trying to understand some things. More or less I am using this forum to think out load and see if anyone can offer their advice as well. What started this thought was, "How much horsepower does a...
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    Greetings!

    I am partial to the glass nose models. The one with the 75mm coming out of the nose is cool, but just like my sweet spot for radials I have a sweet spot for the glass nose on a bomber.
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    Greetings!

    I remember reading articles about that particular aircraft. Have you ever read any of the articles of the guy in England who built his own spitfire...
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    Greetings!

    I agree with everything you have said. I find myself returning to mantra that, "If at first you don't succeed; try, try again". I was saddened the day that the news of Mr. Bally's death came across my Facebook news feed. Instead of it diminishing my desire to experiment with scaled down multi...
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    Greetings!

    I am leaning toward the A-Plane to start. I have a friend who is a structural engineer and also an aviation buff so we are going to scrutinize the design as we go through it and see what can be done to make it better while still using "off the shelf" materials. After that it will be the...
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    Greetings!

    Grew up woodworking and restoring Mustangs. I was then a heavy equipment mechanic for the Army for 2 years and have spent the past 16 years as builder for the Air Force. A builder for the Air Force is diverse and we do quite a bit of sheet metal fabrication and welding. So...experience with...
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    Greetings!

    Hi everyone! Joined this site while googling information regarding the A-Plane. I have plans for that and several of the Mini-Max series before they went pay. I was going to flight school but deployments and 6 kids kind of put a stop to that...for the time being. That and we moved to northern...
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    What could be done to reinvent the Affordaplane to a more homogeneous project?

    Hi everyone! I joined this group because I have plans for both the A-plane and a couple different versions of the mini-max. My plan is to build the A-Plane first and I have read all 38 pages of this forum. Towards the beginning it was briefly brought up using round tubular aluminum. I was having...
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