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Air Cam / CH-750 love child ....

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rbarnes

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Dreaming of a plane I think I might be able to someday pursue depending on yalls feedback.
1. Love the Air Cam - perfect slow flight twin ... but not thrilled with the flying canoe cockpit
2. Love the CH 750- simple, all metal, ugly but dang if it doesnt just flat out work.

The Dream. Take the wing kit for a CH 750 Super Duty (nothing but the original CH801 wing) and 750SD horizontal tail and remake the rudder same shape but bigger. Have a custom chromoly fuselage made that scoots the front seats out in front of the leading edge of the wing (for w&B) and mount twin turbo Rotaxs facing backwards up on the wing.

The CH 750SD wing is designed for same 1,900-2,000 lbs gross as the Air Cam and has the same empty weight of 1,100 lbs as the CH 750SD with it's heavier O375 power plant.

Advantages over the Air Cam: Enclosed cockpit, faster cruise (not by much), more of a true STOL wing with leading edge slats

Am I nuts ? Are the engineering hurtles for piecing together wings of another plane onto a custom fuselage and power plant arrangement something that take 5-10 years to work out ?

What am I missing ? Everything ?
Of course I would bring on engineers and welders to design and fabricate, but hoping to reutilize much of the CH750 layout, controls, and kit components to save time.

VERY crude sketchup model
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Original CH750 line drawing with some work in photoshop
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