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Old 06-23-2004 | 06:23 PM
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Default RE: A turbine as a first PLANE

Broken, Looks pretty close to being now. Looks to be in production soon.

http://home.cogeco.ca/~kmcleod22/turb/700.htm

OMG, I know I'm going to pay for this. God forbit I try to take this seriously. Anyway for those who actually care my idea is not to teach somebody on even a Facet... I actually stated that at least once for those who just skipped over my words. Take the power plant (or similar) above and design/build an airframe similar to a 60 or 90 size trainer and I'm sure you'd have no problem teaching somebody to fly with it. And I don't mean attach it with rubber bands. Designed by real enginers (i.e. myself and I recuit Wings as well) that have real world professional experience.

This plane would be about the same weight of your standard trainer and therfor be now more difficult to fly or any more dangerous. This project could easily be done today.

Pro: Push button starting and no dangerous prop on the front.
Con: Expensive and throttle lag.

This is all my point is and has always been on this time. BTW, college kids build stuff way more advanced than this all the time.

Now I'm sure I'll pay for this with some baseless "stupid" comment.