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Last few days...
3 years ago
Over the last 4 or 5 days I've been working at getting over the china crud that hit me over three weeks ago. I tire quickly and brain seems to become mush about the same time I become tired.
Myron is very understanding of this, he was dealing with this in May... so I'm doing short days.
One of many beautiful aircraft that have been designed here in the Pacific Northwest is the Sorrell SNS-7 HiperBipe. Back in the 80s I came close to going to work for the Sorrell's as a welder and metal fabricator.
Anyway Hobie's HiperBipe is the design that's inspiring a high wing design of the aircraft on my drawing board. My idea is to develop the fuselage so two can sleep in it if needed...
Taking a few clues from Steve Whitman's Tailwind I think I can get a fair tuen of speed on not a lot of horsepower. My worksheets say a 125 mph cruise speed on a 4.5 gallon an hour fuel burn. I could get a higher cruise speed if I narrowed the fuselage but I would loose the room to sleep in it and some of the utility the 48 inch wide fuselage offers.
I'm working on getting the low speed characteristics to be similar to the Cessna 150/152 so it's a good low time pilot aircraft but the cruise speed will be about 30 miles an hour faster on less fuel. If the numbers I'm seeing hold true this aircraft will work well on turf runway.
Today I got a line drawing of the HiperBipe printed so I can scale the profile. I'm looking at designing the aircraft so it can use either tricycle or conventional landing gear...
So go do something and enjoy the evening.
Myron is very understanding of this, he was dealing with this in May... so I'm doing short days.
One of many beautiful aircraft that have been designed here in the Pacific Northwest is the Sorrell SNS-7 HiperBipe. Back in the 80s I came close to going to work for the Sorrell's as a welder and metal fabricator.
Anyway Hobie's HiperBipe is the design that's inspiring a high wing design of the aircraft on my drawing board. My idea is to develop the fuselage so two can sleep in it if needed...
Taking a few clues from Steve Whitman's Tailwind I think I can get a fair tuen of speed on not a lot of horsepower. My worksheets say a 125 mph cruise speed on a 4.5 gallon an hour fuel burn. I could get a higher cruise speed if I narrowed the fuselage but I would loose the room to sleep in it and some of the utility the 48 inch wide fuselage offers.
I'm working on getting the low speed characteristics to be similar to the Cessna 150/152 so it's a good low time pilot aircraft but the cruise speed will be about 30 miles an hour faster on less fuel. If the numbers I'm seeing hold true this aircraft will work well on turf runway.
Today I got a line drawing of the HiperBipe printed so I can scale the profile. I'm looking at designing the aircraft so it can use either tricycle or conventional landing gear...
So go do something and enjoy the evening.
Hopefully you'll get over the other end of the turbo crud. Personally I was lucky when I had it, being completely asymptomatic, but sitting around at home for a week gave me hellish cabin fever. Like being on ship again, but with nobody to talk to.
I spent this evening reading old comic books from the 1940s and catching up on my DeviantART and Fur Affinity inboxes. Tomorrow, Date Night, if we can both make it...
good luck with the airplane too... personally, I'm more of a fan of low and slow, but that's just me...
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