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Sidecar airplane?

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Riggerrob

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A whimsical challenge to design an airplane with a motorcycle sidecar.
In keeping with the motorcycle theme, it would start out like a Volksplane 2 or 2D, open-profile fuselage plane, but add a sidecar for a passenger. Perhaps the "sidecar" would be a full, aerodynamic "egg" as test-flown on a Stuka or proposed for Harrier and AH-64 Apache helicopter. Despite all the fancy "diploma engineering" when Israelis and Brits needed to evacuate casualties, they just sat casualties on stub wings and wrapped a seat-belt around them. Then they hopped a kilometer or two until they could land the attack helicopter beside an ambulance. Since it only needs to carry one passenger, the "sidecar" will probably be asymmetrical.

Back in 1919, Blackburn did build a prototype "Sidecar" but it was symmetrical in configuration. The only unusual part was the very deep fuselage, so deep that the main wheel axle and wing bracing wires were bolted to the bottom of the keel.

Please allow your imaginations to run wild!
 
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