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    Prerotator

    Were you at the Fall 2022 Carolina Barnstormer's Flyin? There was a small gyro there that had an electric pre-rotator.
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    99 year old aeroplane with 3 horsepower takes flight!

    I discovered a very nice write up about flying the Wren: The Wren: Flying English Electric's 1923 Ultralight The section where they were talking about planning ahead as much as possible when getting near trees or the ground reminded me of flying my original 1978 series 1 Lazair with 2...
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    The Lazair Ultralight

    Thanks for the history lesson. I lost track or things after Ultraflight shut down. Dale supported owners with a company called Ultrapulsion for quite some time. I know Dale took a lot of supplies to New York when he moved there. He had many large crates full of small parts, engines, etc.. He...
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    The Lazair Ultralight

    I forget. Was Dave the fellow that was going to return the Lazair to production? More back story on that would be great. There are lots of companies that will coat and slit a large roll of material into smaller rolls of tape. You just have to buy a shi* load of it. If you look around, Tedlar...
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    The Lazair Ultralight

    Correction: I actually ran across my receipt today while looking for something else! I forgot about the $500 deposit. The actual retail in August 1979, at Oshkosh, was $2495.00. And it is serial number 25. Three years later, a Tedlar covering kit with tapes cost me $200 wholesale from...
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    The Lazair Ultralight

    Nope, Virginia. Suspect I will be recovering my series one in Mylar again. Actually, my series one kit came with Dacron fabric for the wings and tail. Dale shipped me Mylar and tapes (along with his new injected nylon props to replace the original wooden ones supplied) after I had driven to...
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    The Lazair Ultralight

    The prototype Lazair had light weight Dacron covering, but the early production kits came with 2 Mil (0.002") Polyester Mylar film (the wing tips remained in Dacron fabric). Mylar is not UV stable, so when Lazairs started operating in Southern climates (Ultraflight was a Canadian company) the...
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    The Lazair Ultralight

    Although Dale Kramer's Super Floater hang glider eventually used a twin engine set-up provided by Ed Sweeney ( Partner chainsaw twin engine set-up designed for hang gliders), Ultraflight's Lazairs NEVER used Ed's later set-up you describe above. Ed Sweeney used those on his Hummingbird UL (sold...
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    The Lazair Ultralight

    The early series 1 shown in the first 2 photos above had a bit thinner skins on the spars, cables instead of push rods in the wings and didn't have rudder pedals. Without the instruments shown, gas and the non-standard extra metal on the wheels, only weighed 142 pounds! The engines (converted...
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