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    Wingboarding

    So , I have never fallen off of my cycle,skate board ,surf board. I have towed and been towed behind a cycle on a bike, Some body always falls off and the MOm goes crazy and wont let you play with them anymore. When, not if the guy falls off, what happens to his tow rope? Does he drag the...
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    Interesting Aircraft

    Thanks for the likes. My tandem is not related to the Spratt in any way other than it pushes air downward. It is 2 axis with pitch controlled by the canard/forewing. The fore wing moves only up and down without any split/rollcontrol. I thought about it and designed in the option. I...
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    Interesting Aircraft

    Tandem wing ;
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    1984 ish Cuyuna 430 , with most of the 4 belt redrive, 200$

    Still have the semi complete redrive along with the engine. I also found a muffler. but it lacks the exhauist Y pipe. 175$ takes everything. tampa area, FL. Thanks,MM
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    WANTED: TAILWIND W8 or W10 with 0-320

    I know of a Ford powered one. B-ASS redrive on it. Dual ignition,etcl Should be cheap ish. The plane quality is very nice or better. Hopped only . MM
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    1984 ish Cuyuna 430 , with most of the 4 belt redrive, 200$

    Nice old stock Cuyuna 440 twin. For parts or add your carbs and exhaust. Short block is complete. This was NIB at a dealer that sold the coil and carbs off of it, and so it sat on the shelf for a long time. It is a little dusty but may very well be unrun. The redrive came with a package of...
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    Norms flying Boat

    Nice build Norm. Take a look at the early Buccaneer hull . It i s pretty flat in the nose area ,( most pressure under power). Also for gluing foam to other stuff and even it self, do some testing with the Gorrilla glue types. They work well. The model guys use a "woodpecker" for prep and...
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    Rag-and-tube canard?

    I am currently drawing a very ugly but similar craft. The parameters are ; Flying boat, WIG with 2 up, airplane -solo. easy trailer- 8ft front wing , mounted above the rear wing to allow the tip Vortexes to pass over the rear wing. , main wing sections less than 10ft long so that they may...
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    Flying Ladders?

    GRETCHEN par Mike OGREN My plane.. Ladders for spars. Built the entire thing naked, stressed it up to about 5G hung from the rafters at each rung. Just the front wing as it takes around 68% of the loads. It was very clear that the barn would come down before the wings went up. No I did...
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    Alloy spars with 1in square tubes. ??

    I am looking for a spar that consist of two sections of square tube with a sheet shear panels. Rivit together. Does anyone have pics? Thanks,MM I had some much interest in plans for the last plane that I want to design the next with all Rivit together construction.
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    New Ultralight - Engine configuration

    I like the noisy, hot, windy thing behind me. The ride is much more pleasant. I do have an antiwire tube down the front of the plane and anti prop tube near the engine. MM
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    cuyuna engines

    My spare long block is forsale . 200$ get it.
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    cuyuna engines

    Check the timing on the hard to start Cuyuna. After warm up it puls pretty easy. I cold start mine from standing but warmed up from the seat is easy. Well until my rotator cuff went out.
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    Load testing wing ribs

    That is correct. But the real world load has much of the loading on the top surface of the wing, Sucking the covering off. The thought is correct tho but I dont see how you can do an actual /real world simulation with sand bags other than the spar. The UL can seldom reach enough speed to hit...
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    Load testing wing ribs

    GRETCHEN par Mike OGREN The foil was partly chosen to have enough beef in the rear section( for my foam ribs). For a valid stress amount, I took the Gross weight, figured each wing loading, X4. Take that amount and figure per rib. Of the total per-rib value, look at the lift vector and...
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    Cloth is too tight!!

    The cloth finishing books say that thinner will tighten the cloth. I wanted less dope and took some thinner , on a rough wash rag and ground off some dope ,in the areas of concern. The plane was tied sideways, to my car trailer. I moved the craft so that the trailing edge was above the...
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    Cloth is too tight!!

    I just bought a Mitchell wing . The owner had it covered by a GA guy and then doped it. The trailing edge got pulled out of alignment, I assume from the dope . How do I loosen this covering? Can I add thinner to the area and soften the dope pull?? Sand some off? My other UL has latex...
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