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Well there's something ya maybe don't see EVery day...
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friendly1uk said:Shouldn't the end bits fold up n down to follow the sun. Providing lift at times and dead weight that harvests the sun when it's at acute angles.
friendly1uk said:Winglets so big they need winglets.
bobc said:Rudders feel a bit redundant with so many motors....
craneplaneguy said:View attachment 2Over the weekend I was up by "Mr. Winglet's" ranch, and once again he wasn't around. The ranch and strip are taken care of by a full time local crew, while he does his thing creating ever more efficient winglets for airliners and biz jets, he's super busy guy. Anyway, here's a pic of the almost 8,000' long strip (mine is 400', and just grass), but to fully appreciate it you'd have to see the surrounding country, lots of nothing at all. Gorgeous scenery but not developed at all, and miles of just sage brush and 12 K mountains. His place is like something out of James Bond movie, the remote lair of the bad guy or something....it's really something. The other pic is of his thermal solar panel installation for the radiant floor heat in the giant hangar. And of the private control tower, with TWO elevators, one a typical smaller one, the other is a pneumatic tube one, like your bank uses to zip your deposit slip around. They are the ONLY elevators in the the local county, that just cracks me up. The last picture is of my plane doing its thing in the Idaho mountains on it's skis. I had my e folder inside, though I never did use it that day.
craneplaneguy said:View attachment 2Over the weekend I was up by "Mr. Winglet's" ranch, and once again he wasn't around. The ranch and strip are taken care of by a full time local crew, while he does his thing creating ever more efficient winglets for airliners and biz jets, he's super busy guy. Anyway, here's a pic of the almost 8,000' long strip (mine is 400', and just grass), but to fully appreciate it you'd have to see the surrounding country, lots of nothing at all. Gorgeous scenery but not developed at all, and miles of just sage brush and 12 K mountains. His place is like something out of James Bond movie, the remote lair of the bad guy or something....it's really something. The other pic is of his thermal solar panel installation for the radiant floor heat in the giant hangar. And of the private control tower, with TWO elevators, one a typical smaller one, the other is a pneumatic tube one, like your bank uses to zip your deposit slip around. They are the ONLY elevators in the the local county, that just cracks me up. The last picture is of my plane doing its thing in the Idaho mountains on it's skis. I had my e folder inside, though I never did use it that day.