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    Supa-pup MK4

    An opportunity as come up in my area to pick up a Supa-pup MK4 project at a deceased estate auction it looks like a fairly complete project including factory welded fuselage and firewall forward (looks like it might be a jab1600) and instruments the problem is it seems to be a bit of an...
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    Biplanes: Replacing streamlined wires with stranded cables

    can you 3d print a whole load of small fairings for the cable and just glue them on ?
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    Wooden aircraft and crash safety

    Wow a Cub really can only just kill you..
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    BD-5 - Why is it so engrained in our psyches?

    I met a guy once who flew a BD5 out of Serpentine Airfield in WA he told me he had had endless issues with its engine I asked him how it did engine out he told me he didn't know but if he ever had to dich it he planed to tip one wing down to impact first and induce cartwheeling. i was never...
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    How important is authenticity when a design inspired by a classic airplane?

    Actually I think there is something fishy with the literature on biplane stagger its all over the place, you can find examples clamming either forward or backward stagger is the same and some claiming back stagger (top wing trailing the bottom wing) is lower drag. personally when i look at the...
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    Units in Design

    I'm an SI guy through but I think there is definite merit in using different units for different situations for example In Australia I was trained that altitude is always in ft that makes it very clear that you are talking about altitude instead of some other distance preventing miss...
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    Ideal 40 hp/3000 rpm Direct drive inverted Two-stroke single cylinder engine?

    I found one for you :) "I built a 2 stroke engine, turning 1 cylinder into 2 cylinders 2 stroke" Its not a joke either it looks like the guy set him self up to make a lot of them Dang-nab it I thought this was the 2 cylinder thread.. neverminded its still fun
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