pwood66889
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`Preesh, b7.
Any interest in Solid Works on other projects. Sea Era, floats, LSA or UL trailerable seaplane?Count me in for helping with the Solidworks part.![]()
Absolutely. I have lots of irons in fires, but PM me and we can take a look.Any interest in Solid Works on other projects. Sea Era, floats, LSA or UL trailerable seaplane?
http://www.homebuiltairplanes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29770&page=5" any news? "
Successfully (?) retired end of May, this year. Got the -042 motor out of So. `Bama, but have to get capacity to haul the airframe and floats. URL for FSW forum?
I just assumed it and the Lazair were plagiarized from the Super Floater wing.Anybody have any commentary or insights into why that shape was used?
Not all of them. There were several iterations of the 'Floater.Every Superfloater I've seen was a ladder style, double strut wing.
HW, I also have only ever seen a double tube spar ladder frame Superfloater, any links to share? Also, seems like the Lazair has a less abrupt transition from drag spar to fuselage tube?Not all of them. There were several iterations of the 'Floater.
Links have dried up*. I was pretty sure I had a photo in my collection - but I don't. Probably had Pelican wing photos stuck in my brain. See edit above. The Hill/Hall "D" tube version predated the other 2 by several years. (1975)HW, I also have only ever seen a double tube spar ladder frame Superfloater, any links to share? Also, seems like the Lazair has a less abrupt transition from drag spar to fuselage tube?
I don't remember mentioning this? WAY....... too early for a thread. I have been toying with the idea of a primary glider based on the Marske formula. But so far it's nothing more than napkin grade. Much like the Mitchell U-2 getting a flying wing to fold up into a legal trailer-able width is actually harder than an conventional plane - if you want quick one man rigging with automatic connections. Going to a 2 man setup car top-able formula needing some pins/bolts (Mitchell B-10) makes thing much easier.Interesting. Do you have a thread for your “Le Vampire” idea? I’d like to know more.
I worked on a quick CAD file and posted it on here about a year ago of a Powered Goat/Marske Monarch hybrid. I even sent it to Jim Marske and also met him at the ESA event last year and talked to him about it. So Basicaly it was a Monarche type wing but built with pounded sheet ribs or CNC'd plywood ribs and tubular spars like a RANS. Forward fuselage was built like a goat with a short KOLB type boom to hold the vertical fin. Engine would have been a Polini 250.I don't remember mentioning this? WAY....... too early for a thread. I have been toying with the idea of a primary glider based on the Marske formula. But so far it's nothing more than napkin grade. Much like the Mitchell U-2 getting a flying wing to fold up into a legal trailer-able width is actually harder than an conventional plane - if you want quick one man rigging with automatic connections. Going to a 2 man setup car top-able formula needing some pins/bolts (Mitchell B-10) makes thing much easier.
Once I get the various bits moved around so the structure is still simple to build then I'll start with the "D" tube single strut aluminum wing. Depending on how the weight come out it might be lighter to use a Marske style cantilever composite wing with simple locating struts. But I'd like this to be build-able by anyone from plans to fit with the Lithuanian formula of training.
No plans for a Le Pelican in my future - unless I just happen to be traveling on I-80 through Nebraska with a trailer...............
Like the name 'Le Vampyre'!![]()
>snork< At the rate I've been going, it'll be your grandkids building my design. But thank you for the compliment.... Or better yet while I play with the Zigolo, Topaz will finish his design and I will just build his as its better thought out.
Guess I have not read through their archives, George. The pieces I am missing are the elevator/horiz. stab and lift struts. You know the lengths/material?There still exists a Le_Pelican_Ultralight in Yahoo Groups I started 9 years ago.