A Nairplane (an ew design)

[Tim Wescott]

http://www.ccwebster.net/robintim/anairplane/

[Tim Wescott]

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[Steve Helmick]

L ooks l ike a Ring bler or Nobl Ring, b ut y ew s ay i t's a Nairplane? I 'll be d ipped...  Steve

[Robert McHam]

Must be a Beginner's Stick Master! I like the choice of engine but it will need an engine bulkhead somewhere and at some point!

Robert

[Tim Wescott]

I like 'Ringbler'.  The top view comes more or less from a sketch that just happened one day at work during a particularly boring meeting; the side view comes from this thread: http://stunthanger.com/smf/index.php?topic=15478.0, the post from John Crocker.

I work several days a week from home, doing consulting work, and sometimes I just have to run screaming from my office and fly a plane.  The problem is finding family members willing to give me a launch.  The pasture I fly from is rough enough that nothing will roll on it.  So I'm trying for (a) quick, and (b) light enough that I can launch off of a piece of plywood or out of a sleeve.  If I'm lucky it'll accelerate fast enough that I can launch from a sleeve, and I won't even need landing gear -- time will tell.

The firewall is in the works.  Maybe I'll go take some pictures tonight.

[john e. holliday]

I like it.

[John Crocker]

Tim,

IT will launch out of a sleeve mount on a picnic table, or will with an .049 Norvel.  Take a piece of cardboard, fold it in half and place a couple bricks on top of it.  Slide the outboard wing into the cardboard sleeve, start the engine, walk out to your lines and pull gently while giving full up on the handle.  Done it a million times over the years in the school yard.

[Tim Wescott]

We'll see how it does with a Golden Bee -- if not, I've got a Norvel Big Mig that I should try...