Tiger Tim
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I’ve seen a sketch, did it ever progress beyond that?
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mullacharjak
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VJ23 powered version for older pilots(unable to run).Self launching glider with paramotor engine.Minimal changes.
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The Tipsy Junior (see 21st century Volksplane?) used an interesting setup where the wing was simply bolted to the fuselage bottom longerons with brackets and then faired in using essentially an upside-down turtledeck on the fuselage belly and a small forward fairing. That could be an easy way to tackle a simplified aluminum kit design for beginners: basic four-sided tapered box fuselage, constant-chord wings with a big single box spar (or D-cell and rear spar), ditto the tail surfaces, and prefabricated composite, engine cowlings, forward decking/fuel tank like a VP, forward and rear belly fairings, turtledeck, and canopy frame or cabin top.. Curves in the fairings and perhaps some pretty molded wing and control surface tip fairings would dress up something that's really an aluminum Volksplane underneath.
WonderousMountain
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BiTandum plane is pretty out there,
although it has it's own thread. Kind
of blocky so I set it down for a while,
but now I like it as an A 2 B. We'll see.
Still need the engine for it that is small
& light-also cheap...
Note:
Revised tail is for trim, not pitch control.
although it has it's own thread. Kind
of blocky so I set it down for a while,
but now I like it as an A 2 B. We'll see.
Still need the engine for it that is small
& light-also cheap...
Note:
Revised tail is for trim, not pitch control.
If you are going to the trouble to have a fuselage pod and fixed landing gear, why not move the engine to the front or back of that pod?
Sockmonkey
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This guy. Fixed lifting V-tail.
The flap/elevator/ailerons also split open to function as drag rudders for short control runs.
Nestofdragons, can I get your opinion on this? I think the particular compromises of this design are pretty good.
The flap/elevator/ailerons also split open to function as drag rudders for short control runs.
Nestofdragons, can I get your opinion on this? I think the particular compromises of this design are pretty good.
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nestofdragons
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Currently Evert Cornet of AC Light Aviation is working on something similar. Evert is the guy of the Scirocco ultralight second generation. He knows his composites.
Speedboat100
Banned
Looks like WD 3 to me.
Tiger Tim
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Well if we’re just going with wants, I want an Eaglet:
Yes it’s only a single seater but it would make a great little escape pod from real life.
Yes it’s only a single seater but it would make a great little escape pod from real life.
Pretty, note the constant-chord wings with the curves in the control surfaces only like the Stolp designs. Is that from the old comic books that featured the Grumman Skyrocket?
Very Payen.This guy. Fixed lifting V-tail.
The flap/elevator/ailerons also split open to function as drag rudders for short control runs.
Tiger Tim
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The Eaglet is from the Bill Barnes pulp novels andif you like it you should check out the other planes they had like the Scarlet Stormer and a squadron of Lancers. The bad guys had some seriously cool hardware too, like the Dart which was basically a militarized Hawks Time Flies.
The Skyrocket was in the Blackhawks(?) comics.
