No Activity is without risk, If you want to absolutely protect your passenger, leave them on the ground. Ballistic parachutes are not the cure for all ills. Two pilots who flew from my home airfield b

Dug, think seriously about putting it in a shipping container and letting the professionals do the heavy lifting. It is cheap. Get it delivered with a sideloader if possible or at least do not let the

Convert it to tricycle undercarriage? Sorry, could not resist... Check to see if your brakes are set on or off. John

Hey Wes, I can give you a really simple explanation for this (guess how I found this out ;-)) if you fly in the conventional manner, I.e. drift down to flare hieght, flare and them wait for the speed

Yup, fire away, I have gone straight -- and am back working as an Aero Engineer...(and finishing off my second hangar) so no longer have as much time as I would like to chat on the net... How can I he

Tom and Bruce, re reading your signature prompted me to dredge the memory banks and after reading the responses there may be a valid reason for testing your canard. There is still an unresolved issue

Yup, two questions for you. Why are you bothering? do you know enough to work out the load schedule, design the support structure and interpret the results? If you have built the aircraft to plans, th

Peter, I have done the same on several occasions. If you fly at the planned altitude and amplify the height by two you get a very good feel for the perspective, and land marks. Not much use for the ga

Joseph, I formed my transparent fuel guages from Lexan (polycarbonate) and they worked perfectly first time. First the caveats. Acrylic (perspex)is easier to form, is harder, more prone to cracking an

Jim, thanks for the heads up. And lest anyone think that that was an isolated case I can confirm that I had the same thing happen on my first flight in my Q .Fortunately it happened in the down wind (

Hi Allan, in order to make any sense of those numbers you need to start with a known reference. i.e. a known level surface - both forward and laterally. Then, measure the distance from the floor to th

Ron, this just does not make a lot of sense. I know of Quickies that have crashed. Using this logic, I should not fly one. Metal and composite props fail too. If they failed they were either improperl

Ron, I second Peter's comments and unless you have an overpowering predjudice against natural composites, suggest that you consider the following : Gyroscopic loads post propstrike consequences chance