oriol
Well-Known Member
Hi everyone!
I was just wondering how interesting would be an aircraft with a very simple structure (I was particularly thinking on a trike, tube body) that would allow different flying configurations:
The basic structure would fly as a:
i) Paraglider, just adding a few gadgets: specially a small semicircle to avoid cables to get rolled into the propeller.
ii) Trike: just connect a delta wing.
iii) 3 axes rigid aircraft, no tail just two upper wings with strut: a mix between a cessna 172 and the SWIFT. Depending on the wings charachteristics this 3 axes aircraft would be a motorglider or a simple ULM.
iv)gyroplane, just add two blades to the top.
What I specially like of this airplane is that it could follow the KISS rule and it could also be a very affordable airplane and transversal machine.
Once you got the basic structure you can fly the machine your budget allows you to. Then if you save some monney to get the instruction for a pendular flying license or something above. You allready have 50% (or more) of the airplane you just need to buy the wings, or a more powerful engine...
As I see in spain, but I guess it would extensive to other countries, people turn into aviation but they are very restricted by their budget so if they succeed with the pilot training they stay into one very specific aviation field.
As an example: very fine pilots of paragliders don t usually know very much about trikes or three axis aircafts.
Same happens with traditional VLA pilots: they don t usually know much about soaring, delta wings...
Mostly for economical reasons everyone prefers to stick to their natural field, missing a great part of the aviation landscape.
I would thank from you any comments, specially if some of you have heard of any similar flying machine with a transversal vocation?
I was just wondering how interesting would be an aircraft with a very simple structure (I was particularly thinking on a trike, tube body) that would allow different flying configurations:
The basic structure would fly as a:
i) Paraglider, just adding a few gadgets: specially a small semicircle to avoid cables to get rolled into the propeller.
ii) Trike: just connect a delta wing.
iii) 3 axes rigid aircraft, no tail just two upper wings with strut: a mix between a cessna 172 and the SWIFT. Depending on the wings charachteristics this 3 axes aircraft would be a motorglider or a simple ULM.
iv)gyroplane, just add two blades to the top.
What I specially like of this airplane is that it could follow the KISS rule and it could also be a very affordable airplane and transversal machine.
Once you got the basic structure you can fly the machine your budget allows you to. Then if you save some monney to get the instruction for a pendular flying license or something above. You allready have 50% (or more) of the airplane you just need to buy the wings, or a more powerful engine...
As I see in spain, but I guess it would extensive to other countries, people turn into aviation but they are very restricted by their budget so if they succeed with the pilot training they stay into one very specific aviation field.
As an example: very fine pilots of paragliders don t usually know very much about trikes or three axis aircafts.
Same happens with traditional VLA pilots: they don t usually know much about soaring, delta wings...
Mostly for economical reasons everyone prefers to stick to their natural field, missing a great part of the aviation landscape.
I would thank from you any comments, specially if some of you have heard of any similar flying machine with a transversal vocation?
