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    Video: Defiant - 247 knot helicopter

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    Latest info on coming new FAA regs for light aircraft (LSA,LPA)

    Link to article by Dan Johnson Dan Johnson: Coming new FAA Light Aircraft regs This is still the best link about current expected specifics for the new regs: New FAA rule clarifications
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    Recommendations for Solidworks list of initial settings, mods, automations, parts libraries, plugins and tools to improve aircraft design capability

    I just downloaded the EAA version of Solidworks and am wanting to set it up the best way for designing aircraft. (and for learning to use.....) I have heard that the EAA already has a bunch of changes you can automatically apply to improve Solidworks for our use, but I can't find the directions...
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    Is there more Information on Flac a british 60lb Carbon Fiber Foot Lauch glider by Richard Gerrard?

    I am guessing that it is just a design and it appears to be overly optimistic in the weight department. But I would like to see design drawings or sketches or something anyway. I found mentions of it on a few websites but the only site that has information on it is nest of dragons. here is the...
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    Can a SkyPup break the FAR103 constrained distance without refueling/landing record by flying an electric motor?

    The Current record is held by a Mitchell Wing. I have not been able to find the record, but I believe it was set by some guy named Gary something in the eighties and it is somewhere between 300-400 miles. I think a guy named Jon did a completely weight confirmed distance of 309 miles in...
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    Use of carbon fiber pultrusions in extreme lightweight wing construction

    I am looking for Builder logs, Drawings and Specifications for very light airplanes that use carbon fiber pultrusions in wing construction. I want to see what variations have been used to date to utilize the benefits of pultrusions. I am particularly interested in designs that used carbon fiber...
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    Tillotson 212cc and 225cc on efficient ultralights?

    I had been looking at the least expensive 4 stroke engine options that might be used in high efficiency ultralights and had identified the Tillotson 1 cylinder 4 strokes as very likely options. They are promising enough that I think they should have their own thread. There is not a good place to...
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    spec list of efficient light planes

    I am creating an excel spreadsheet of the specs for efficient light planes that are interesting to me. Essentially a list of airplanes that fly with less than 26 horsepower. If you have suggestions for additions please let me know. Here is a pic of the current form:
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    video 1Comet ultralight glider with fairing, tow to 1100m

    Thought you guys might like this video. 1Comet flight video Looks like they are working on a motorglider version too.
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    Cash Airport house opportunity coming to 97FL?

    Hmmm. Seems like there may be a government auction coming to Love Field.... Does BJC have info???:p Fugitive apprehended at 97FL Edit. Airplane N242TA was seized and flown to Fort Lauderdale by Feds.
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    Cheap (ish) and easy D Tube female mold CNC idea

    So, I have custom designed and built a few 3D printers and also helped redesign and change operating hardware and software for laser cutters. I am currently thinking of an inexpensive CNC construct that can cut continuously variable airfoil D tube female molds relatively cheaply. The same...
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    It's a special time for revolutionary part 103 ultralight designs in Carbon Fiber… especially UL motorgliders….

    The dramatic drop in carbon fiber and vacuum infusion costs are exiting catalysts already leading to some exciting new work here by all of you… but when combined with home availability of cheap computers and software that can do advanced structural analysis and computational fluid dynamics on a...
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