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    Cargo plane approach to the flying car

    Wouldn't be LSA, but my gut feeling on the best way to get to a simple solution would be something like a 80% OV-10 Bronco with the center "pod" expanded to accomodate a motorcycle or small vehicle, something like a ultra-lightweight "Locost" Lotus 7 replica. Think miniature C-119 "Flying...
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    what's your desktop picture?

    Not actual screenshots of my desktops, but here are the photos I used... My laptop: Flitzer Z-21 "roundtail" built by Rupert Wasey My office computer: Flitzer Z-21B built by Chip Carpenter My home office computer: Jim Cresswell's Flitzer Z-21 I think I see a pattern here.... wonder if...
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    First - person - to break sound barrier?

    Apparently he went a lot faster than that, at least according to the media coverage.... :roll:
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    Cheaper Aircraft

    I would imagine all of Roger Mann's Ragwing designs would fall into this category, at least if not built to part 103 specs. I'm pretty sure some of them could be built as ultralights. Also, the Flitzer biplane would fall under this grouping. Flitzer Sportflug Verein
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    I'm searching for that "perfect" airplane to build... help me find my "wooden wonder"

    Re: I'm searching for that "perfect" airplane to build... help me find my "wooden won Not too worried about metal parts fabrication, whatever I can't manage myself I can send to one of my friends - he owns a machine shop a couple hours away, is an absolute artist with his fabrication, and works...
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    I'm searching for that "perfect" airplane to build... help me find my "wooden wonder"

    Re: I'm searching for that "perfect" airplane to build... help me find my "wooden won Now, I really wouldn't trust my welding! Nah, seriously, I have done some welding, I built the roll cage in my first race car about 10 years ago. But that cage was overkill for a sports car, not exactly...
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    I'm searching for that "perfect" airplane to build... help me find my "wooden wonder"

    Re: I'm searching for that "perfect" airplane to build... help me find my "wooden won fly2kads, thanks for the mention of the Cvjetcovic CA-65.... had not seen that bird. Looks very nice, and the size and performance are exactly in the neighborhood I was looking for!
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    I'm searching for that "perfect" airplane to build... help me find my "wooden wonder"

    Re: I'm searching for that "perfect" airplane to build... help me find my "wooden won If there is one thing that I am, above all others, it's a realist when it comes to my abilities. If anything, I'm probably capable of more than I give myself credit for.... but I prefer to err on the side of...
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    I'm searching for that "perfect" airplane to build... help me find my "wooden wonder"

    Re: I'm searching for that "perfect" airplane to build... help me find my "wooden won :) Hopefully as time passes we'll be able to lose a little weight, both my wife and I have committed to it, although my cooking has sometimes been an abstacle to this! With my position in life currently...
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    I'm searching for that "perfect" airplane to build... help me find my "wooden wonder"

    One thing I am certain of is that short of designing my own aircraft from scratch (something I have neither the experience nor the knowlege, skill, or intelligence to do, I'm afraid, without likely leaving my children fatherless), I am likely not going to find that "just right" combination of...
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    Most Beautiful Aircraft Ever Built

    Not many jets that I consider "beautiful" as my passion is more in with the vintage aircraft (I'm particularly fond of propeller noise :)) but there are a few.... F-111 is always the first that comes to mind for some reason... But it's planes like the DH Comet and the Dragon Rapide, and the...
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    throwin rocks

    The Russians did operate a small number of Spifires that they obtained from England under Lend/Lease, but I don't know if those squadrons ever saw action against the Finns.
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    Marcel Jurca Aircraft Plans

    Has anyone ever seen or know anything more about the Jurca 75% scale P-40? I've searched high and low, but can't find anything other than what is on the OP's site, and the bird is not even listed or even mentioned on Jurca's French site. I'd love a bit more info on an otherwise very very...
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