Brünner
Well-Known Member
The Kolb comes to mind...I suspect an awful lot of pusher aircraft designs are to get out from underneath that wing and have a better view
The Kolb comes to mind...I suspect an awful lot of pusher aircraft designs are to get out from underneath that wing and have a better view
There were a couple Canadian warbirds in civilian hands that were supposedly set up to seat a ton of people in a row. One was a P-51 that had an extra long canopy (story went the original was damaged/missing so he put whatever was easiest to get on there) with the pilot seated where and how you’d expect and a sort of padded log in the back that up to three people could straddle. The same guy also had a Firefly that was said to have again had the pilot in the stock seat but the rear greenhouse canopy had a bench seat running down one side for however many people dared to ride.Well even uncommon?
I’ve flown in a 1-2 arrangement but that 1-2-1 or 1-1-1-1 eludes me.
I’m not conceited enough to even begin to believe I’m the first one to have the idea so I suspect I’m simply not a good enough researcher to find it.
As a friend of mine used to say: Too many windows and they're all open!
Like Matthew pointed out, the Thurston Seafire. Couple of folks up here built the homebuilt version of it about ~25 years ago... I wrote an article for Kitplanes on their projects. Both took Oshkosh trophies.I didn’t realize the thurston teal was a factory aircraft.
Anybody got any info on the proposed 4 seater ?
That Boorabee is a sweet looking airplane.Had no problems with vision in my Boorabees.
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Very nice indeed. Though that one is technically a S10 which can be had for the mid $100k range.Nice airplane the S12! You can even buy a used one for about a half mil!!
I take it the difference is turbo vs. NA engine between 10 and 12? Either way: what a beautiful airplane. What can you tell us about the shaft drive and how they deal with torsional resonance? I imagine in a carbon airframe they are using a carbon fiber driveshaft??? While the drive INTO the Rotax gearbox is loaded with torque reversals 180 degrees apart I wonder if such a driveshaft could simply be light and stiff enough to let the Rotax TV dampers do the work?Very nice indeed. Though that one is technically a S10 which can be had for the mid $100k range.
That all said, the configuration is the important part- not the 75 foot carbon wings and fancy folding prop.
Picture a Highlander-STOL rag and tube type airplane with a mid-mounted engine, prop on the nose, long landing gear, and the occupants out in front of the wing with a great view.
I take it the difference is turbo vs. NA engine between 10 and 12? Either way: what a beautiful airplane. What can you tell us about the shaft drive and how they deal with torsional resonance? I imagine in a carbon airframe they are using a carbon fiber driveshaft??? While the drive INTO the Rotax gearbox is loaded with torque reversals 180 degrees apart I wonder if such a driveshaft could simply be light and stiff enough to let the Rotax TV dampers do the work?
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