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Old 11-30-2006 | 03:35 PM
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Nathanielray
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Default RE: Designing your own airplane...

thats some things to think about.. Umm short on time but my plan is of a small lowwing sports plane that favors a goldberg tiger 2 or tiger 60 but with double tapered stab and counterballanced tail parts. I like trike langing gear but always rathered the tail draggers because i think they look better and doing a slow 3 point is still a challenge for me. Ive got maybe close to 500 flights under my belt so im still not really experienced but when it comes to a blank sheet or paper and a pen, to an airplane thats no problem. Ive builts planes before and the only one that didnt fly well was a 2 and a half pounder with a 46 fx and a pipe... Wonder why that didnt work? lol.

World models makes a small 20 size high wing arf called the Happy Fly that flies as well as any lowwing Ive flown in a while... When I crashed it the fuse was gone but the wing didnt break.. I didnt have much but I used an old peice of panneling like what you see on walls, and built a new fuse out of that junk.. Ended up with a 48'' lowwing that weighed 3 pounds and I put an old os 40 fp in it with a 10-7 prop... Flew wonderful for my first wet stab at designing things... Anyways ever since then I have wanted to design something better than a lot of what is out there. I know the edge 540T isnt gonna be beat anytime soon.. U know the guy that deisnged that plane supposedly couldnt even make it through high school? call me on it if im wrong but thats what I heard from an older man named Bob Baker from Amarillo Texas... Hes into designing boats and planes, and hes never told me wrong on anything

anyways thanks for the help people..