Originally Posted by mgnostic

I think I have read some of your posts regarding this airplane elsewhere on this site. Even the full scale Flyer was a pretty marginal aircraft. I thought your drive system was very creative. I had a rubber powered Flyer that I picked up at a museum store someplace. It had a fairly clever gear drive for the props but there must have been a lot of inherent drag. It always flew farther as a glider than when under power. I guess the spinning props didn't make enough thrust to overcome the drag of the prop discs. I know it's been done but you have to have a lot of respect for anyone who can actually get a Wright Brothers airplane to fly.