I do agree about the B17. I am former military and always loved the B17 and have an awesome hawaiian shirt with the B17 on it.... (OK, it is awesome to me...not so much my wife). I am just not...
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I do agree about the B17. I am former military and always loved the B17 and have an awesome hawaiian shirt with the B17 on it.... (OK, it is awesome to me...not so much my wife). I am just not...
I wish EAA would not resort to making membership reminder notices look like collection agency letters with what you see below.
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Hi Everyone,
Just wanted to let folks know that we have just launched our Indiegogo funding campaign to get our aircraft design completed and the plans out as free and open source. We will also...
Hi,
Just a quick note that I have updated the MakerPlane website and uploaded a lot more free and open source avionics projects as well as a complete aircraft electrical system and avionics wiring...
Thanks Eric and Kiwi!
I will certainly post pix of progress, testing and the final installation to wrap things up!
Cheers!
I really love the idea of using ultralights to get people into the air cheaply! I flew a Challenger back in New Zealand years ago and with an instructor at the local club it cost me $20 an hour. At...
It might be that Kiwi's method of construction as described is actually going to be easier and more robust than three flat separate panels, particularly if the brake method works for us. If we allow...
Hi Kiwi,
Thanks very much for a comprehensive and awesome answer....! Nicely explained. I will certainly give this technique a shot and report back here. It has probably saved me a lot of time,...
One more.... what thickness material should I use.... I am looking at 3mm, or would I need to go thicker?
Hi Eric, Ron,
Thanks for the info. I am actually going to be starting a full scale mockup of the cockpit within the next week or so and will start playing around with different techniques to...
Hi Eric,
Thanks for the info and the link to the Savor! It is definitely a cool design and I can see how the polycarbonate sheet was cleverly bent in two directions from a flat sheet to create...
Hi Everyone,
Just a quick note to ask for a little bit of help with attachment of wind shield to frame on the LSA design we are in the middle of.....
Here is a render of the design. The doors...
Hi Everyone,
Jeffrey has created a small scale prototype composite seat for MakerPlane v1.0 in order to work through some manufacturing techniques and to get feedback on instructional material. ...
Hi Brian,
We will be supplying the CAD files which can be then used to convert to g-code specific to a users requirements and as I indicated, we will also be supplying the native g-code for anyone...
Actually our first design will probably be mainly composite with wooden bits and metal here and there. Also, we have other open source aviation related files that we will be populating up in the...
[QUOTE=Kiwi ZK-CKE;17574]Just a demonstration about how CNC machining can build wooden aircraft parts - here a a video of parts for a DH mosquito rebuild being produced in New Zealand. If the...
Hi Everyone,
It has been a while, but just to update people that have been following this thread. We launched "The Hangar Workshop" today on the MakerPlane website www.makerplane.org. This is a...
Hi Matthew,
Our project is considering something like this and I believe would fit your specs. The design includes removable wings for trailering......
Hi Everyone,
Over the past few months a small and dedicated team of people have been working on an open source aircraft project called MakerPlane (www.makerplane.org). This is an open source...
Just to clarify as well, the idea with this initiative is that the "official" versions of the OS aircraft would have gone through prototyping and flight testing before releasing the plans. It would...
Hi Everyone,
We are continuing our planning for the Open Source Aircraft initiative and would like to ask the community for assistance in filling the following roles to help us with this planning....
Hi Jeffrey, Send me an email to john_nicol at hotmail dot com
Hi Jeffrey,
I sent you a PM, did you get it?
Agree with everything you have just said..... but to focus effort, the initial team have also created an Open Source initiative including a .org website. What we would like to do is get a source...
That is a good point. In Canada, you can "build your own aircraft, provided you construct, assemble or oversee the construction, by other persons, of at least 51% of the total number of items...