Mission: pull your airplane out of a 20 foot long container. Do a pre- flight inspection and launch within 20 minutes.
Folded dimensions are limited to 7 feet by 7 feet by 19 feet.
To keep cost within reason, you are limited to 1 seat.
Minimum power is 40 horsepower (1/2 VW or Valley Engineering Twin or a smaller Rotax).
All control runs (cables or rods) must remain connected or automatically connect themselves (ala Grumman Tracker) when unfolded.
You are allowed double or triple redundancy to confirm that structural locking pins and control runs can be verified from the cockpit.
Do you fold the nose-cone?
Do you fold the tail cone?
Do you fold the tail boom(s)?
Do you fold the wing(s)?
How will you fold the wings?
One-piece wing that pivots ala. Backyard Flier and V-22 Osprey?
2-piece wing?
3-piece wing, wing panels swinging aft, ala. Kit Fox or F-14
3-piece wing with outer wing panels folding over the fuselage ala. Ones or F4U Corsair or Dyke Delta
This is a challenge to "think outside the box" and invent new folding methods.
Folded dimensions are limited to 7 feet by 7 feet by 19 feet.
To keep cost within reason, you are limited to 1 seat.
Minimum power is 40 horsepower (1/2 VW or Valley Engineering Twin or a smaller Rotax).
All control runs (cables or rods) must remain connected or automatically connect themselves (ala Grumman Tracker) when unfolded.
You are allowed double or triple redundancy to confirm that structural locking pins and control runs can be verified from the cockpit.
Do you fold the nose-cone?
Do you fold the tail cone?
Do you fold the tail boom(s)?
Do you fold the wing(s)?
How will you fold the wings?
One-piece wing that pivots ala. Backyard Flier and V-22 Osprey?
2-piece wing?
3-piece wing, wing panels swinging aft, ala. Kit Fox or F-14
3-piece wing with outer wing panels folding over the fuselage ala. Ones or F4U Corsair or Dyke Delta
This is a challenge to "think outside the box" and invent new folding methods.
