Nose bowl straight from the prints. Hope not to hard on the kneck 
Flaglor Scooter ?
- Thread starter don january
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Turd Ferguson
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not bad on the kneck but a challenge for the Ieyes.
Thanks, Don, but the quality makes the text hard to read. How about a closeup of just the nosebowl and notes?
"Honey, have you seen my big metal salad bowl lately? I saw you walking toward the garage with it last week and I haven't seen it since... I wonder what could have happened to it???"
for those blind fellas like me. 
Dillpickle
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Didn't the Avid Catalina use a basketball as both nosecone and dock bumper? Put in place flat, and inflated to hold? I can see that working as a mold too, lol
I am having some fun kicking around the idea of little plane inspired by the Scooter designed around a 35 hp industrial V-twin with an Ace redrive. I am thinking aluminum-tube-and-gusset fuselage and tail and possibly still wood wings all covered in Oratex. Here's what they LAA performance spreadsheet gives me.
(Some factors have the standard value and/or the formula to the right of the entry. Note that I have increased parasitic drag to account for an open cockpit and other bits and bobs hanging out.)
(Some factors have the standard value and/or the formula to the right of the entry. Note that I have increased parasitic drag to account for an open cockpit and other bits and bobs hanging out.)
I think something like this could be a lot of fun, perhaps designed for big and tall pilots and with optional doors for cold weather.
After looking at the prints I think this plane would easily be built from square Alum tube other were the engine comes into play but even that doable. I would myself would not scale up to a two place but even that would be a mission accomplished. A VW pulled it around and heavier weight plane you'd have to bring up the HP but also the prop diameter. It is a unsung hero of a plane in my book.
