Corona virus came in contact with Chuck Norris - Now it's in quarantine for 2 weeks.

Fromaggio Vagiola 🤣😂🤣😂

ahh thats what happen to Mt Saint Helens in the 80's

Fromaggio Vagiola it didn’t make it apparently. Chuck is doing well though.. 🤫

Eurgh!

His videos can be used in a "how to go overboard" course

@@Trophyman well, regarding that... i can't be the only one suspecting that Mike also made his own bed ouf of carbonfiber. When we got fron him that he was going crazy on the Carbonfiber i didn't expect this to become borderline morbid. But hey, watching him coat everything in carbonfiber is just glorious!

Captain Charlie Bravo he needs to design a new shop program for high schools!

So matter of fact about building a handmade airplane...awesome!!

Seriously! Mike is the MAN!

@Viscous Shear Glad that someone knows the truth!!!!!

They are hard to find but there are many Mikes on Youtoob. Mark Felton Productions - Mike Patey of history.

Not gonna lie love the Scrappy build, but low-key am hoping it's the start of the new Draco build

Keith Carlton and in the heat of Utah it melts like chocolate? If he would build everything in prepreg and postcure it then maybe but still.. a black plane will heat up like hell!

RV-8tor your correct 👍🤠 maybe not like chocolate 😂 but true. so in the areas like horizontal and others I need to keep the strength I will paint those areas with a light color. Yet, some portions of the tail section that holds its structure from the frame below, I will go ahead and show off some clear UV blocked carbon fiber and even as we know it does soften it’s still magnitude stronger than fabric. So In some areas that fabric is enough I’ll show off some clear carbon fiber just because 🤷‍♂️👍 🤠

@@Spinner1987CH I haven't seen that he's laying up CF over foam cores. I'm no expert in this kind of thing, but I believe the insulation value causes havoc as heat builds. He doesn't have that factor to contend with. As an experiment try touching the black paint of a vehicle when its sitting in the scorching sun...then try touching the polished chrome trim. The black paint will be hot, but the chrome trim will make our fingers smoke.

Paul Slevinsky i know what you want to say but actually I was a structural test engineer for a aircraft project (Solarimpulse) which was entirely built out of CF and we did a lot of testing. The result was that we still needed to cover the top surfaces to reduce the impact of the heat (the hotter it gets the weaker the structure becomes)..

Mike Patey sorry I am from Switzerland and we love chocolate and airplanes 😂

That makes me chuckle every time I watch the "out-tro" on his videos. You just know there's someone watching who doesn't know the story of Draco. He backs up the video thinking, "What the hell was that!!???" ;^)

Is not was, Draco is social distancing while his creator clears his creative mind sanding on some passing fancy with pistons

And he can build all he wants too! Its a win-win!

I used to build RV sailplane models from vacuum bagged carbon, glass and Kevlar. I experienced this very phenomenon; Raw Kevlar cloth could not be torn and could only be cut with special scissors. However, once it was laid up with resin it could break and tear like glass. In fact, after a crash, you could take a piece of epoxy-impregnated Kevlar which had begun to tear and then continue tearing it with your bare hands. I’m inclined to think that the carbon and steel will do the job of carrying aerodynamic loads and preventing flutter quite nicely, but the Kevlar will add some thickness and some resin and not much else. Laying up the carbon on a 45 degree bias would help immensely with torsional flexing, and I assume Mike did this. This is an amazing plane, and so overbuilt that I see little risk in the layup schedule, even if the strength to weight doesn’t quite work out as intended. Just discussion points-not criticism. Mike has advanced the art and technology of home building more than any human in a very long time, and he he is rightfully assuming his place alongside Burt Rutan and Dick Van Grunsvan.

Brianne C I think we all feel that way.

Your comment is funny. Thanks for the chuckle.

Love Peitenpol's!

@@gregmiller1951 Im building a sky Scout, just thought it was cool because there are so few out there. Take it easy.

@@spurgear4 If you lived close I would love to check out your project!

Yeah... I been suggesting it due to the finger of God wash on top of debris. Long shelf designing along with wedged plywood style skin toughness. To only have keyboard warring about weight and unnecessary. So glad Mike is about monster mechanics and designs. Murica! I always yell "Damn I love Kevlar" on stump strikes.

I'm with you buddy. Beats ANY TV show currently wasting our time.

Well, thank you! My best wishes to you.