Q: Why?
A: Because I need a plane to practice on that's more rugged and hopefully more up to date than a Nobler
Q: Those 'plans' are teeny -- what are the dimensions?
A: 31 inches from spinner to tail (29.5 fuselage length), 45 degree span, 400 square inches wing area. I'm planning on using 3/8" balsa for the fuselage, with hefty reenforcement in the nose for rigidity. The blue bar in the plan view is 12" long.
Q: Why that size?
A: Because I have an OS Max 25 (the plain old loop scavenged version) on hand, and because with 52' lines I might be able to fly in my back yard.
Q: Why that plane?
A: Because V-tails are cool, because I like scale plane looks but not scale plane performance, because it's a plane that I like that was designed after WWII.
Q: What have you done to it?
A: Refined the height of the fuselage, made it a profile, moved the wing up and made it flat (not shown in the plans), shortened the tail and increased the projected horizontal area for a hair over 0.5 TVC, and decreased the height of the V for less side area.
Q: And you call that a Waiex?
A: Yes. I'm shameless. Besides, it'll be yellow just like Sonex's prototype (see
http://www.sonexaircraft.com/aircraft/waiex.html).
Q: Don't you realize that it won't have really good performance?
A: Yes, the rectangular wing, straight leading edge, straight flaps, and wingtips all work against me. I know this, but this may be my last chance to build this and have a plane that outperforms the pilot, so I'm taking it!
Q: And you still want us to comment?
A: Yes, please. I understand that I'm making some sacrifices to keep the look (didn't either Sheeks or Rabe report hearing snide comments about "semi-stunt scale"?). But within that I'd still like to hear comments.
Please. And thank you.