Greg, Wood leading edges really add to the rigidity of the wings and tail, but there is a slight weight penalty. 1/16" should work fine, the 3/32" that Drew...
One more note on my ply leading edges. The plywood is applied to the leading edes in two pieces, an upper and a lower half, each piece feathers into the...
Hi all, Our Flybaby is complete and ready to fly - yesterday I did some high speed taxi tests and have found a problem The plane accelerates very fast and the...
Hello Doug, I can only think of 4 things that would cause this. First flights are usually always done at near max forward C/G for stability reasons. To qualify...
... <intercon@c...> wrote: <SNIP> ... before the tail lifts- I close the power and start again same thing-I tried full forward stick ... <SNIP> I can only...
About 2000 feet I think. Doug Reeve ... From: Ross Wilson To: flybabylist@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 10:17 AM Subject: [flybabylist] Re:...
I'm just about to register a dedicated domain name for my Fly Baby page, while moving it to a new server with scads more space. However, I am in a bit of a...
Ron, I like the BowersFlybaby name. I agree with the hyphen issue. Thanks for asking. Rich ... Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool....
Ron & group, Here are 2 that I thought up. I have checked on the following and they are available. flybabyfly.org flybabyflyer.org & .com -- Jan Servaites...
Hi All, I recently read an issue of EXPERIMENTER which highlighted the Mifyter biplane. One of the photos clearly showed the upper wing built out of wood ribs...
My vote is for bowersflybaby.com, I think it is a little more definitive considering all the strange stuff that's out there under"fly baby". Denis Ron Wanttaja...
... I'd tend to stay away from .org extensions just because there really isn't an "organization." I'd love to get an ".aero" extension, but they're being ...
... "The fault lies not with the spars, but with ourselves." :-) Actually, I've been mulling over an aluminum alternative to the current plank spars. Spruce...
Ron, bowersflybaby.com has too many words and I thought flybabyflyer would be easier to type in & remember. -- Jan Servaites (Dayton OH - The Birthplace of...
Ron, FWIW, I'd vote for bowersflybaby.com as well. With just the hyphenated spelling, you'd probably find a bunch of the OTHER FLYBABY types accidentally ...
Of course, the tube spars might be handy to carry around all the extra gas you'd need to feed the bigger engine you'd need to haul the spar carry-through tube ...
can you secure flybaby.com? It doesn't appear to be active. It would be the ultimate handle and you run the ultimate flybaby web-site in my humble opinion....
... That's a good point! -- Jan Servaites (Dayton OH - The Birthplace of Aviation) http://www.wright-brothers.org/ "I am convinced that human flight is ...
Hi Doug, It sounds like the tailplane incidence is wrong- I've had the same kind of problem with another airplane. In my case, the airplane refused to rotate...
... I know you're joking, but its been tried. Something makes me think it was a BD-4 where it was attempted to fuel in a tubular spar. It sorta worked. The...
Yeah it has been tried. very successfully by first Jim Bede then Grumman American with the AA1x Yankee, Trainer and TR-2 series of two seater's. I have owned ...
This problem goes away with a header tank. ... From: "Frank Stutzman" <flybaby@...> To: <flybabylist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004...
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Something else to keep in mind is that some surf control software does not like the term "Fly Baby". I have run into this when I tried to access the Argentine...
To all of you that replied with solutions - Thank you- THE PLANE HAD ITS 1 st Flight Yesterday. A friend of ours with some time on Fly Babies climbed in taxi a...
... From: Interior Construction To: EAAofSA@yahoogroups.com Cc: Mark Beckley Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 7:52 AM Subject: [EAAofSA] Fly Baby 1st Flight of...
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