Garage Built Project

[Maui]

Consider the Ebay auction for plans to build the following ultralight plane:

http://cgi.ebay.com/UltraLight-Airc...9QQihZ008QQcategoryZ34054QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Would anyone here believe that this plane could be built and safely flown by inexperienced college students as a part of a engineering course, as suggested in the description?

Maui

 

[MikeHalloran]

Twenty years ago, kids who started engineering school already knew how to make stuff, they just wanted to learn how to make it better/ faster/ lighter.

Lemme think about it. One biplane glider in two weeks by two guys who choose to have nothing else to do? From plans? Credible. A bit longer if they have no power tools.










Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

 

[Sparweb]

Looks like a plane built on that "Junkyard Wars" show a few years ago.

It's so obvious to me that such a rotten photo clearly ruins a guy's credibility. If it's worth selling, it's worth a decent photo or two, but some people can't be bothered.

Steven Fahey, CET

 

[spider007]

few days of reserch, little bit of math, little bit of imagination, few google serches, and you can comeup with and build a death trap like that your self.

$14 is cheep enough, you can buy the plans and if your duped, it's not really a big loss

 

[thruthefence]

Let's see now; Many years ago, When I was in A&P school I bought a set of plans for a swept wing tailess biplane glider,called an " Icarus II " , designed by an engineering student named Taras ( ? someone help me out here ), and built it from aluminum tubing, pop rivits , and dacron dress lining for the envelope; in my two bedroom apartment in Hermosa Beach, Ca. Drove my roommate crazy. But intrestingly, a few months ago I was at the NBAA convention in Orlando & saw the 'recreation' of Santos-Dumont's "14-bis" done by Embraer as a tribute. It was amazing how much the two 'aircraft' had in common, as well as that ebay 'aircraft'.

 

[GregLocock]

http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/aero/aircraft/icarus.htm

Cheers

Greg Locock

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[joekm]

It's a bad photo, but, at first glance, it doesn't look like a 110 lb structure. I'm also not believing that an 8 HP lawnmower engine will get it off the ground.

Also, a decent prop will probably eat up your $400 cost estimate right there.

I could be wrong....but it looks fishy to me.

--
Great Spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds
-- Albert Einstein

 

[InteroperabilityFix]

I think the Icarus glider was featured in that movie where the girl flies an ultralight to lead geese in their migration.
Her dad flew one into a tree if I remember correctly.
I would say that something like that, a tube structrure and no engine is easy to build by amateurs...

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