topspeed

I am designing something really small as well.

Here; http://max3fan.blogspot.com

who would have one ?

I was wondering since chief of the TKK flying club Mr.Juslin is actually interested of this design...

Who else is interested of a kite that has 200+ MPG and goes 165 mph and costs less than 20 000 usd to build ?

economical fast aeroplane

That could be handy in Australia when the distances are long.

I hope so see Jussi some day in the future. : )

I live in Oulu

Hi,

Haapajärvi is pretty close here less than 100 miles away.

I do live in Oulu Chris. 100 000 + inhabitants here. Does he/brother fly ?

rgds,

Juke

I didn't think the EAA certified anything? You might want to rethink making use of that particular testpilot.

Ok I may have misunderstood. He is a member of EAA. He has testflown finnish ac designs previously. Certainly EAA has not educated him or anything that sorta. He has also presented some suspicion about the changes of this ac bringing anything that I have claimed it could. Thence I may reconsider using him as a test pilot.

I think my easiest way now is to make a model and see how it flies.

My original thinking is very annoying for some of the TKK students who spent 5 years stydyin Navier Stokes etc equations. I may be wrong here...some of the TKK students think I am all right some have doubts..or just being arrogant.

For instance if I calculated that the drag of my kite is .34 sq ft and Cessna 172 Skylark has 5.5 sq ft of FPEA ( 16 times more ). It has 160 hp engine and cruises at 140 mph..then I simply assume that when I have proportionally more hp:s per drag and less wingloading in my kite I have to ( be able to ) go nearly as fast or faster.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_172

Hi all,

I came here since Doug Mansfield has commented on my design on another site ( Keypublishing ).

First of all I am not a pilot ( yet at least ) and flown R/C planes so far. My few earlier designs were thus under 70 kilos in order to have no lisence to fly them ( here ). Due to my migrene headaches I actually can not have an lisence to fly. Luckily they have become milder and less frequent.

I am very keen to invent new economical pusher for time being like Doug is.

Here is my blog economical fast aeroplane

My best regards to "down under" from Finland :thumb_up:

yours

Juke

Key Publishing Ltd Aviation Forums - Powered by vBulletin [/url]site. I took some time out this morning a perused your blog. Wish I could read Finnish. Tell me/us, why were you banned from your home sites? Sure, you have some 'out there' idea's but there's got to be more than that to get banned. I warn you, in a friendly way, we also have a banning system so choose your words carefully.We've both come up with the problem of varying weight pilots. My answer is to design for the heaviest and have a compartment on the nose to add weight for the lighter ones. It should be easy enough to produce a graded scale and affix it to the aircraft for permanent referrence (ie, in case the aircraft is sold).

 

BTW, Mr. Mansfield is rather formal. Call me Deskpilot or Doug.

Since I have nothing to hide and I wanna be straight I did mention in my blog being banned from three finnish aviation forums.

I have really no direct answer to why I was banned. It would require a lenghty story, but I think it is because I am too direct bringing my ideas into forums. There is very little toleration if I repeat something too many times. I do have to confess that I claimed that a pusher of mine ( in the specs ) would have a mileage of 300+. I did not have much basis on that except that I calculated the drag and knew the fuel consumption of the APT 11.6 cu in engine at 65% power ( 1.7 liters/hr )..and the drag was .34 sq ft ( about 1/16th of a Cessna 172 ). It all depends how fast the plane could cruise at 65% power..if it is less than 100 mph then the 300 mpg is baloney. We cannot be really sure unless a plane is built and flown.

I have a written ( e-mail ) from a finnish EAA certified testpilot that he would fly the plane if built. TKK ( technical university ) educated Air Force test pilot declined after commenting it 5 times..saying he does not like small aeroplanes.

The banns started earlier because I also commented on a golf site and on a model aviation site. Some of the model builders were also golfers and for some reason also the stories I told about golfing weren't credible to few engineers of TKK ( see I am from the neck of the woods..from northern Finland ). One of the not credible stories was my 270 yard stroke with a 5 iron ( which went 50 meters past the hole..and took 20 minutes to find the ball and also bent the shaft of the club). My clubs are 1 inch longer than normal. I used to use 2 iron ( stiff shaft + 2 inch longer ) for driving like Tiger Woods in early nineties and regularly teed 235 meters with it. Few years ago I broke my back and used heavy medication ( Tramall...opiats and panacod..it has codein..which Howard Hughes was addicted to ) and spent my time in the web telling tales of my most incredible golf stories as a GF player with par( even ) rounds ( 9 holes max ).I also introduced my Reno Racer TS II in 2003..which became a laughing stock here among educated aero engineers.

Just in top of that there is a "dude" here in my towns province that actually has built 4 aeroplanes with VW engine that are all of his own designs made outa fertiliser sacks with unorthodox controls..has no flight training and several of his planes has been confiscated and he keeps flying. One of the planes is a low wing monoplane without ailerons. One of his kites is in a museum in Jyväskylä.

Last bann came when I reminded that we have one existing FAI record made with VL-70 Vinka...a flight from Helsinki/Finland to Odense/Denmark ( 1010 km ) at average speed of 35,4 km/h in 1000-1750 kg class. Next day I also mentioned about an ardent opponent of mine in the net being either too fat for his Fournier 4 or the Fournier 4 was smaller than I remembered..he was doing phony strafing runs in his Fournier 4 in a picture cavalcade...which I considered ridicilous abuse of a motorized glider. I think I earned the bann..so I have no regrets. I am also sorry for the personal "assault".

I have never been banned from a foreign site. Also my back is good..I just cycled 50 km last nite and I am under no medication ( for a year and a half by now ).

rgds,

Juke

Just kidding !

Hello Mr.Manfield,

I think this concept or yours is interesting and in several point better than mine at economical fast aeroplane

I recall Edson Fessenden Gallaudet of Rhode Island USA had that same concept in the early 1910s.

See ya gentlemen and ladies later !

rgds,

Juke from Up North ( Finland ).