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    New Flying Wing takes flight - Facebook's Aquila

    Really biziarre design, but it must have cost a fortune because of carbon fiber! I think that the carbon fiber would be offputting to users or potential buyers of the airplane, sure it is as light as a feather and stronger than most materials, but for slightly worse performance, someone could...
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    Low powered aircraft design

    Thanks everyone, but I have a quick question. Larr, where did you find the Klemm KL 20 picture and information? I have been searching and all I can find is just the Klemm KL 25. I read about the Klemm KL 15, which was designed on the principle of using 7.5 hp, which is really the main focus of...
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    Low powered aircraft design

    Thanks for all the stuff! These are really helpful resources! In stead of those expensive, easily crash able, human powered designs that are really impractical, but low horsepower, I was thinking of something that is a small airplane, most likely an Ultralight, that uses a low amount of force...
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    Roadable Nightmare

    What about the Spratt airplane featured in the Aeronautical Oddities movie from the 20s or 30s! I saw this plane as a low power, interesting ultralight, as the engine looked pretty small. It seemed like the front wing was on a ball, or some kind of weight shift mechanism, while still using a...
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    Low powered aircraft design

    Hello! Recently I have been interested in reading about aircraft with incredibly low power requirements. From light wing loading, to huge wing spans, or human power and engine power! I think, because of how much engines cost, affordable flight would be a single seat, low horsepower flying...
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    Conceptualizing the cheapest/ most inespensive ultralight.(Dont worry, I wont fly it)

    Re: Conceptualizing the cheapest/ most inespensive ultralight.(Dont worry, I wont fly Wow! Thanks Nestofdragons! I remember seeing the butterfly plans/ simple drawings in the light glider that you can ride a bus with thread. Seems a lot like what I was thinking about, and this one is 2-axis...
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    Conceptualizing the cheapest/ most inespensive ultralight.(Dont worry, I wont fly it)

    Re: Conceptualizing the cheapest/ most inespensive ultralight.(Dont worry, I wont fly Now I am thinking more of a motorfloater/low HP flyer due to engines being the bulk of cost, especially while going for light and strong engines. In our theoretical cheap-o plane, if you use a motorfloater...
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    Conceptualizing the cheapest/ most inespensive ultralight.(Dont worry, I wont fly it)

    Re: Conceptualizing the cheapest/ most inespensive ultralight.(Dont worry, I wont fly Thank you Cheapracer and nickec, Bob Hoovers blog was something. His tips on making a $10 rib than can carry an 80 pound load was great. I wonder how many ribs you would need for a full size wing? They are...
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    Conceptualizing the cheapest/ most inespensive ultralight.(Dont worry, I wont fly it)

    Re: Conceptualizing the cheapest/ most inespensive ultralight.(Dont worry, I wont fly Cheapracer, What did I say about steel tubing that was negative? I want to learn more about different construction methods and I want to learn from my mistakes to do so. I made this thread after I was...
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    Conceptualizing the cheapest/ most inespensive ultralight.(Dont worry, I wont fly it)

    Re: Conceptualizing the cheapest/ most inespensive ultralight.(Dont worry, I wont fly I cant believe I let steel slip my mind! I live in California, and I remember when I drove by areas like Oakland, there are dozens of scrapyards, and I noticed all the metal tubing around, most likely on the...
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    Conceptualizing the cheapest/ most inespensive ultralight.(Dont worry, I wont fly it)

    Re: Conceptualizing the cheapest/ most inespensive ultralight.(Dont worry, I wont fly TFF, I am talking about scrounging certain materials, and waiting for them to go on sale/ show up in some way that I can get my hands on them. But the main parts would be purchased(Fuselage, etc). I also was...
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    Conceptualizing the cheapest/ most inespensive ultralight.(Dont worry, I wont fly it)

    Re: Conceptualizing the cheapest/ most inespensive ultralight.(Dont worry, I wont fly I have started looking at used ultralights on Ebay, Barnstormers and whatever, and I have found a few that are less than a thousand bucks, but they are a few thousand miles away, and are in awful condition so...
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    Conceptualizing the cheapest/ most inespensive ultralight.(Dont worry, I wont fly it)

    Re: Conceptualizing the cheapest/ most inespensive ultralight.(Dont worry, I wont fly Thank you Choppergirl, and Little Scrapper. I just wanted to see what a cheapest possible design would look like, and if something would be scratch built, what kind of methods of construction would be used. I...
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    Conceptualizing the cheapest/ most inespensive ultralight.(Dont worry, I wont fly it)

    Re: Conceptualizing the cheapest/ most inespensive ultralight.(Dont worry, I wont fly I have looked at the Skypup, and it is a cute little plane, but I have seen much cheaper than it, but it is definitely an option, with it costing $1500-$2000. For the engineer criteria, the "Home Depot Plane"...
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    Conceptualizing the cheapest/ most inespensive ultralight.(Dont worry, I wont fly it)

    As the title says, don't worry, I will not jump inside of a $750 Flying Suicide machine, I just want to conceptualize the cheapest possible way someone could theoretically, built an ultralight. In the Aircraft Design/ Aerodynamics part of the thread, I made a forum post about Ding Shilu's "$495"...
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    Ding Shilu's Unbelieveably Cheap (and Terrifying!) Airplanes.

    If someone would create another kind of "cheap" airplane, I am fairly certain it will be something similar to Jack Harper's "Hope Depot" Ultralight, with a mere 20 horsepower, and a simple wood and blue insulation foam fuselage. Plans are offered, and it looks like a simple build requiring...
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    Ding Shilu's Unbelieveably Cheap (and Terrifying!) Airplanes.

    Thank you all so much for your thoughts! Please continue to talk about these cheap homebuilds! I picked this one because it came closer than most isolated, poor, homebuilders. It may not be soaring hundreds of feet off the ground, but it looks like it had 1-2 wheels off of the ground...
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    Ding Shilu's Unbelieveably Cheap (and Terrifying!) Airplanes.

    I was looking around at Home built Airplane and Ultralight News, and I found out about Ding Shuli, a Chinese automobile mechanic that made 2-3 airplanes for incredibly cheap prices. I know another forum post was made on this subject, but I want to explore how he was able to construct his super...
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    What is this budget Ultralight? Are there any catches/ design problems present?

    Thanks for the input! I was researching it and looking at the comparison between this and the Weedhopper. The Weedhopper is much more expensive, but faster and easier to assemble. Though I think that being able to stow the aircraft in a backyard or garage is an important feature to me, but I...
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    What is this budget Ultralight? Are there any catches/ design problems present?

    I think I finally found a pretty good, cheap, proven ultralight! Do you know of the reliability of this site? Weedhopper, Woodhopper, Whing Dhing Plans | Plans for U I was just wanting to be sure as most of the other plans are either old magazines or just rc models. Thanks again!
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