yea my dad too. he built a toucan trike and flew it one time died a year later. he left it to me told me not let anyone get their hands on it and mom let someone steal it.

How could he ignore that puss ?

Lucy cat?

My cat Lucy, sorry if I didnt state that clearly.

I noticed that also, like at 6:20 i was like ''what??''

There are many opportunities to turn a small profit in experimental aviation. Maybe see about acquiring rights to a set of plans, list them online and sell printed copies for $200-$300. Maybe offer a digital download for half that price (and 10x the profit, due to no printing costs).

@@EllipsisAircraft There is not a whole lot of money to be made selling plans. I bought R.C. model aircraft plans and it cost a lot of money and I'm thinking it's the same with full size Experimental aircraft as well. I fail to build them due to lack of funds.

what engine do you use to be able to fly with an 8ft wingspan thats crazy

Half of $40K would be $20K, me thinks! 😮

@@robertweekley5926 If the engine is half the price of the plane, then 2x engine price is the price of the plane WITH engine. Thus, the price of the airframe and all the bits would be the price of the engine, ie $40K. :) Of course, that is a rough ball park estimate. With enough avionics and other bells and whistles, you could make a crop duster cost many times the cost of the engine. :D

"Small" changes often require serious design efforts. You have to reverse engineer the entire airplane, not just the structure but the performance and weight and balance data also, to deduce what loads to design for. Then everything has to be engineered for those new loads. And you end up putting a lot more structure into the fuselage that is otherwise not needed, adding weight, and possibly 5-10 hours of build time and several hundred dollars on materials and components. E.g. While re-designing the Quickie for personal use, I found one single ply of fiberglass added to the canard alone required a total re-design of the entire wing, which serves as landing gear spring, etc. But it now has a gross weight increase to the tune of 20+ hours of engineering effort on top of 100+ hours of CAD modeling and 50+ hrs of Airfoil design and analysis. Plus $1,300 in software and compute time. And still not finished, as Hotwire templates still need to be designed. Then the build starts (est. $12-$15k). This substantial cost and effort grants a 70lb increase in max allowable landing weight. That is all.

@@EllipsisAircraft Conversion from taildragger to tricycle is an option on this aircraft. The hard work has already been done.

@@philipritson8821 that may be, but I did not investigate the designs web page to see what was available at that time. I assumed if the fellow was asking, that they had done the research and that it did not have this option as of yet. I do realize now that they have options so the question above was moot.

@danhubert-hx4ss The owner. Duh!

@@grahammonk8013 Thought as much. Duh!

You'll be slapped with a fine of up to $250,000 and 5y in prison. Same deal if you don't register the plane itself. They'll see that you posted this comment and that will immediately incriminate you. That argument doesn't really work when most things larger than a lawn mower require a license or certificate.

@@Ibrahimarm But has it happened?

@@ConcreteBombDeep Yes, people get caught for it. The fines escalate with repeate offenses, but it will eventually turn into a criminal offense so I wouldn't do it. The best that will happen the 1st time is the FAA forces you to get certificated.

@ConcreteBombDeep On one occasion, a guy flying in the outback of Australia saw an odd aircraft taking off o a roadway, nearly colliding with a car. He reported this and someone went out to investigate. They found a very DIY aircraft made from a Piper and a Cessna. The guy had bought the parts from a scrapyard and somehow made them into a flyable plane. Not sure what charges if any were made, but the guy seriously didn't know it was illegal.

The plans aren't even worth getting if the kit is less than $35,000; you'd be better off getting them 2nd hand for cheaper than they used to sell for. Same deal if you don't use one of the engines they offer.

Natures composite materials are still relevant. The fastest bombers of World War Two were wooden. Also check out Bellanca aircraft. Wood is strong and resilient.

@@kr6dr yes WW2….. if wood was still relevant for aircraft, everybody would be using it.

@@kr6dr And wood is relatively easy to work with and if I decided to build a plans built this would definitely be my top 5 choice. Maybe you agree with me in that a wood structured aircraft must be hangered. I think this is the main negative with wood. It should probable NEVER be left out on a tie-down spot for extended periods of time. Unless priming the wood structure would help?

@@jamesbrummett9530 and termites…

@@jamesbrummett9530the wood is coated, any aircraft should be hangered but built properly wood aircraft are just as impervious as your wood house

Fisher is a Canadian brand, but I mostly agree with what you've said. This isn't that big of a deal for people planning to build from a kit but for scratch builders this is a big loss considering how affordable plans normally are. There aren't a lot of companies that sell plans for wooden planes. I'm sure you can still get them 2nd hand for a reasonable price, at least.

Tell me about it. So many manufacturing companies that were great have been bought by the US, now they focus on quantity over quality. We need global sanctions against US made products. If we all stop buying US, the world will be a better place.

@@chippyjohn1 That is false. How will the world improve if we stop buying US products?

@@chippyjohn1you must have meant Chinese products?

It's not too hard to make an own plan though

Why comment on this build. When it's not your preference of building material?

@@devonlove9095 to better the world

Carbon fiber is great if you're loaded with money like Mike Patey but of us are not and have to build on a budget making wood an affordable option.

@@theresacaron4238 I wouldn't be intelligent if I hadn't considered that. Fairly hefty brand name CF cloth is maybe 20$ per square meter/yard. You only need a few layers of that to make something impossibly strong so the simplicity and stiffness at low weight really pays for itself. Let's say you made a glider style 2 seater tandem, that double curved teardrop shape lends itself to natural rigidity unlike a box shape and let's say you needed 20 square meters of CF cloth for that, that's 400$. In aviation land that's not a deal breaker amount of money for an optimal building material. No? Especially if it saves you 800 hours of build time.

Have you ever polished polycarbonate? You may be thinking of acrylic.