I think Calder bought a Briggs but didn't follow up?
Not exactly a T-18 (or new), but...here you go:I would love to see a new all metal basic airplane, fashioned after the T-18, with a T-18 style landing gear and a low, cantilever wing. Like the T-18, it could be open cockpit or enclosed. I would have a flying vertical to match the flying horizontal. The spar would need solid rivets, but everything else could be tied together with pull rivets.
The plans could have options for repositioning the wing to accommodate several different engines.
I think that a kit approach to this concept would be better in composite, but for a plans built, I think that it would be more popular as an all metal.
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I have seen the mod to raise the panel, but not the one to move the seat back. I'd be interested in finding out the details of that one.The post war french designs are elegant and fly very well...but you need to be similar in size to the post war emaciated pilots! The Turbulent has a pair of re-design details available from the LAA that raise the knee line of the panel and move the seat back ~4".
Was the Le Prlican ever plans built? Thought it was a kit? Wonder what the plans look like. Anyone buy them?The original single-seat le Pelican was an elegantly simple design reminiscent of the Aeronca C-2. It's too bad that no one seems to have kept the design alive and it is now only found on some Russian-owned pirate site. Something similar designed from the ground up for the weight and power of an industrial V-twin with an Ace redrive would be a great little fun machine.
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It was a kit and they are tiny. Because the Le Pelican has normal airplane proportions we tend to think from pictures that it’s normal airplane size but to put it in perspective I’d be surprised if the distance from the wing’s trailing edge to the stabilizer’s leading edge was more than sixteen inches. A friend of mine is probably around 5’8” and was so twisted up to get inside it he could only fly for a half an hour at most.Was the Le Prlican ever plans built? Thought it was a kit? Wonder what the plans look like. Anyone buy them?
That's what I am working on. But Briggs are not 50 hp. The lighter Briggs are 20-27hp each.If a person could take two 50 hp Briggs and hook them in line and get 80 hp on take off 60 cruise mounted in a plane that can take the G's such as the Taylor-m or ? I think the torque at the prop would be real great guess like VW . RPM cant be too much different and would be a weight saver on FWF.
It was a kit and they are tiny. Because the Le Pelican has normal airplane proportions we tend to think from pictures that it’s normal airplane size but to put it in perspective I’d be surprised if the distance from the wing’s trailing edge to the stabilizer’s leading edge was more than sixteen inches. A friend of mine is probably around 5’8” and was so twisted up to get inside it he could only fly for a half an hour at most.
I know, and I used to fantasize about having one too, but if someone were to design a new one I think half-again bigger would be a good start.
I think the PDQ would be a good candidate for the industrial engine
That's good looking, certainly no wasted space. I've seen videos where he showed the firewall forward and, like this, didn't see his baffling or where the air exited the engine compartment.Pic of the engine in the DA-11:
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Are you talking about reverse engineering the entire as is plane and then modifying it?I have a Super Pelican that I am re doing. I am 5’11 and yes it’s a tight fit to get in. It is my intention to rework the design at some point. Overall it is well built.
The B&S engine should fly it well. They don’t approve of their engine for use in aircraft so unfortunately there won’t be a aviation version from the factory.
My main beef with the design is getting in and out. I am looking at a slightly longer seating position and squaring the cockpit up. This would be more like a Headwind cockpit than the triangular shap it currently is.Are you talking about reverse engineering the entire as is plane and then modifying it?