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  1. Tinworm

    Peter Sripol is at it again...

    It hadn't occurred to me that Sripol's fan-base would be mostly young, but if so, and if it encourages them into aviation, that is all to the good. But speaking as a naive 57 year old with a hankering to start building, what I admire about him is that he is NOT part of the establishment, so does...
  2. Tinworm

    Whing Ding and Souricette

    Morton's notes, as I say, indicate that having made the tail feathers attached to the tail boom, it should be weighed, and the moment calculated including the in-situ weight of the pilot to gain the "empty" weight (as the pilot will weigh more than the empty weight of the airframe and engine...
  3. Tinworm

    Whing Ding and Souricette

    I am all in favour of that
  4. Tinworm

    Whing Ding and Souricette

    Chilton, I am unfamiliar with the UK 115 lb empty weight rules, but if you are referring to the Sub 115Kg rules, they long post-dated the Whing Ding
  5. Tinworm

    Whing Ding and Souricette

    The late Robin Morton built a Whing Ding under the auspices of the LAA in the early 1980s, and until he died he was marketing the plans he used back then through GSAL. They included all the required Section S modifications. His Whing Ding is known to have flown. It is a minimum aeroplane, of...
  6. Tinworm

    Whing Ding and Souricette

    I appreciate that. But the plans recommend that every builder builds it based on their own weight and calculating the position of the CG based on the pilot being in place when the aircraft is weighed, as the pilot will weigh more than aeroplane itself. It is a bit of a tricky bit of...
  7. Tinworm

    Whing Ding and Souricette

    Hi Everyone I am new. I fly flex and fixed wing microlights and gyroplanes (in the UK). I have a Bensen Gyro-glider in process of being restored and I am rebuilding a Chaser single seat flexwing trike. I have long wanted to build a classic fixed wing microlight. I have spent a lot of time...
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