Message #69

Date: Dec 02 1999 14:09:42 EST
From: Frank Stutzman <stutzman@stutzman.com>
Subject: Re: Fly Baby Fakers



On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Ron Wanttaja wrote:

> Since I've got computer drawings of the Fly Baby, I tend to do a lot of
> "doodling" on how it might look with a little cosmetic help.


Fun pictures, Ron.

The doodling I've been doing for the past year or so has gotten me to
something that looks like your 1C with Dave's two-hole fuselage.  Added to
that would be a CAM 125 engine, for that long nosed look.  Oh, and about 4
convertable options on canopies (hole 1 convered with windscreen on 2,
hole 1 covered with full canopy on 2, windscreen on both holes, full
canopy over both holes).  I guess it would look like a mutant Ryan STM and
probably fly like a man-hole cover on edge.  An overweight man-hole cover.

I was planning on doing the wing stub thing, but was thinking of making
them about 2 feet long (measured from the fuselage).  Putting the gear out
on the ends of that should improve ground handling (not like that is
really needed, though).  I was going to put normal (as normal as possible,
anyway) flybaby wings outboard of that.  The reason for the normal wings
is so that when I wreck this monstrosity I can salvage the wings and build
a normal flybaby ;-).  What are the interface difficulties you mentioned
in your note, Ron.  Rigging aileron linkages are the only thing that I can
think of that would be that much of a headache.

Frank