The blinding speed of a low pass, the wind in your face in the frostbite on your cheeks, the thrill of a 4G pull up into a hard climbing turn! The spirit is there and it doesn't get any better than that!The headwind is a great design. Very nice.
The Headwind is NOT based on the C2, C3 or ant other airplane. It's its own design front to back,. Don StewartHello Dave, and welcome! That little Headwind certainly looks fast in that video. What speed were you making in the fly-bys?
It definitely has the look of an FC-2 and of course the Aeronca C-3 on which it is based. The Canadian Goblin builder who plans to fit the Verner 5V would also like to fit skis on his aeroplane in due course. I'll send a ski-biplane image later!
Not "based on", but "inspired by".The Headwind is NOT based on the C2, C3 or ant other airplane. It's its own design front to back,. Don Stewart
Trying to figure out what all the fuss is about. The Headwind has always been its own design. Not a knock off or lookalike.The blinding speed of a low pass, the wind in your face in the frostbite on your cheeks, the thrill of a 4G pull up into a hard climbing turn! The spirit is there and it doesn't get any better than that!
And a darned good design to boot ! My Headwind is a sterling example of what a person can build in a short time with not extensive experience and not a huge cash outlay. Don struck this design out of the park and copied nothing. The plane is easy to build and dead easy to fly. It would make a great club project. In these days of complicate this and complicate that, the Headwind gets back to the roots of casual, fun flying. I did take the time to enclose the cockpit for winter flying on skis. Those fly passes above on skis probably were done at about 90 mph at 2,000 rpm with the Verner 5V. I'm still learning and experimenting with engine/prop parameters with the Headwind. The Headwind and the radial seem to like each other. I'll be out having fun with the snowmobiles on the river this coming weekend. Sneak up from behind a group of them and cast your shadow down on them......and then watch the snow fly !The Headwind is NOT based on the C2, C3 or ant other airplane. It's its own design front to back,. Don Stewart
You have me seriously thinking about building one. I have liked that design ever since they can first remember seeing it and I was not old then. I'm about to turn 60 and that design stayed with me. Also along the same lines but a completely different airplane is the aDormoy Flying Bathtub. I saw a two-place version of one and really thought that was a neat back to basics airplane.Trying to figure out what all the fuss is about. The Headwind has always been its own design. Not a knock off or lookalike.
And a darned good design to boot ! My Headwind is a sterling example of what a person can build in a short time with not extensive experience and not a huge cash outlay. Don struck this design out of the park and copied nothing. The plane is easy to build and dead easy to fly. It would make a great club project. In these days of complicate this and complicate that, the Headwind gets back to the roots of casual, fun flying. I did take the time to enclose the cockpit for winter flying on skis. Those fly passes above on skis probably were done at about 90 mph at 2,000 rpm with the Verner 5V. I'm still learning and experimenting with engine/prop parameters with the Headwind. The Headwind and the radial seem to like each other. I'll be out having fun with the snowmobiles on the river this coming weekend. Sneak up from behind a group of them and cast your shadow down on them......and then watch the snow fly !