Basically, yes. Just removed the under camber on the elevator. The rest of the airfoil is unchanged (to facilitate only making a new elevator, not the whole wing). This is not the only consideration t

Very Nice, Paul. You are the man and the proof that it is like riding a bicycle! 😉 I am still waiting to make my first flight. I hope to do so this weekend. Cheers, Jay

There you go, Vern. Best contact Charlie for the details on that. My elevator design only applies to the LS1, so would be inappropriate for the GU dragonfly type wing. Cheers, Jay

Hi Vern, If you are using the GU airfoil design, which I think you are, you will not need a sparrow strainer. Charlie can correct me if I am wrong, but I think that is the case. Cheers, Jay

Put a couple of documents in the files. Uploaded the elevator hinge design from yesterday and also uploaded a document showing the profile and pressure distribution models for a revised elevator profi

I will put it in the files section, Sam. You are right Mike. Retrofitting would probably be impossible unless you build new elevators, but if someone is working on an unbuilt kit, it would work. Some

As some of you may remember, I redesigned the mid-span pivot for the elevators on my Q-2, essentially retaining none of the original design, excepting the BL position of the pivot on the span of the e

What a great site John. Thanks for that. Cheers, Jay

Hi Mike, Thanks for posting your site! Lots of good info there. You may be interested in to adding the following two links to your weather section. I find both of these extremely useful, with lots of

Great summary and commentary. Sometimes the best experiences are when you least expect them. Thanks for sharing all this. Hicks in the sticks are cool dudes👍😊 Cheers, Jay

Did a quick survey of the planes I have measured over the years. These are all tail-draggers that have been flying for years, most of them decades (not attaching names/N-numbers to protect the innocen

My Dad and I had a friend, now passed, who was a United Airlines pilot after mustering out of the Army Air Corps as bomber pilot. He said he and all the other WWII pilots at United wore sidearms on co

I had a friend whose dad used to say that locks are to keep honest people out. Terrorists tend to find a way to terrorize. My solution to air travel security after 9/11 was to have a rack of single sh

Here is the factory prototype Q200 with a measurement on the firewall like Jim is suggesting (8 degrees from vertical).

Hi Troy, Here is Mike’s airplane’s set up with respect to the Canard AOA at takeoff (first image) and landing (second image) 😉

Do you need to have the badge to exit the prison? 😊 Sorry, could not resist. Cheers, Jay

Hi Troy, I am not the best person to answer your questions, since I have a tricycle gear Q2, but I did do a lot of measuring and modeling of the Q2/Q200 including lots of currently flying ones. The bo

Hi Mike, I test flew my plane at the local commercial airport with its 10,000’X150’ runway. I bunked in another guy’s hangar until I got proficient enough to move back to my home grassroots field. I h

Great to hear that Green Shorts Productions Inc. will be back on the scene to produce another award winning documentary! Drop me an e-mail offline “Alan”. Would be great to catch up. Cheers, Jay

Great stuff, Jon! Where did you get all that footage to project on the green-screen behind your airplane? 😉 Cheers, Jay