At the Hanger this Week

[Scott VanderVeen #199, Vision4/Freedom CL8+]

Week of September 14, 2009

Continuing special project - straight tail variant for the Personal
Cruiser builder #10. VS and rudder gets micro-finished and primer and
counter weight.

Kit C - Hardware, more priming of metal parts and packaging.
Aluminum bell cranks due back from CNC shop.
Nose wheel caster - design review with fabricator all required parts
ordered.

Engine pulled from Cruiser. Engine on hoist and push rod tubes to be
replaced to repair minor oil leak. Tornado Air - gadget installed
after carb to test for improved mixture. Cruiser front strut removed
to be replaced with stiffer walled tube. A cool looking "pultrusion"
funnel being made to assist in pulling S-fiberglass though the new
strut.

X-plane model update of the Cruiser - to be available soon

.. and this is just the Cruiser!

[Benjamin Watson]

I like the format its looking Good, A straight tale? now that's
interesting. Lets put one on Floats haha...........one thing at a
time.
Keep up good work and for the love of God I hope you are doing some
flying. Whats is the fun of building toys if you never play with them
.
Ben "Big Daddy Blue" Watson

On Sep 16, 6:41 am, "Scott VanderVeen #199, Vision4/Freedom CL8+"

[et]

What would be the advantage, disadvantage of a straight tail vs. V
tail? How about a convential gear version?

Ed




On Sep 16, 9:22 pm, Benjamin Watson <bluewolfairgr...@gmail.com>
wrote:

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[Benjamin Watson]

I think less surface less drag.

but I found this a better explanation then I could give

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-tail

[Bryon Stewart, 0010]

Just to clarify...I contracted Pro-Composites, Inc. to develop a
straight tail for my airplane. I choose to do this for personal
preferences only. I did consider the pros and cons of each. But in the
end, I just wanted a straight tail for my own reasons. There is
nothing wrong with a v-tail, it's just not what I wanted. If others
should want a straight tail version, I believe it will probably be
available as an option in the future.



On Sep 25, 4:55 pm, Benjamin Watson <bluewolfairgr...@gmail.com>
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[Samer Najia]

I just want Scott to design a twin engined version....and then let me fly it.

[Scott VanderVeen]

Good explanation on the wiki link. I should post a few pictures there.

1. As a home builder - completing two control surfaces is instead of three
saves time and some weight, a little drag too.

2. The mixer design works perfectly and isolates the yaw and pitch very
well. If you didn't know it was a v-tail you couldn't tell by the way it
handles. It looks good too.

3. It just looks good!

4. The problems that Bonanza had with structure are unrelated to the
Personal Cruiser. It is easier to strengthen specific areas in composites
than working with aluminum and rivets.

Disadvantage - Not traditional? Slight pitch down with major yaw input -
which really is good characteristic in a slip.

Scott VanderVeen

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