Teman Monofly
Alfred Riopel
settled on the Teman Monofly. Has anyone built one of these and or have
knowledge of the design and its characteristics?
What I particularly like about this aircrafts planform is it is a pusher
aircraft, has trike landing gear and a simple common keel and pylon
construction. The wing construction I am uncertain of, as I have not seen
the plans for construction and materials detail. Your comments would be
greatly appreciated
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Alfred (Arrio) Riopel "more toys than time"
ar...@home.com (Virginia)
Ross Carlisle
monofly. The only real difference I see is the wings. The breezy is has
aluminum tube ribs and uses the leading and trailing edge stock as the
spars. The monofly uses fiberglass ribs and a big 5" round tube spar. The
monofly wing will be more money and time to build. That 5" .063 tube isnt
cheap and to build the ribs you have to first make a mold. I have the
monofly plans. They are not bad. Every aspect of building the plane is
pretty well laid out. I got the plans from Scott at VULA.
Ross
Alfred Riopel
Scott. I sent off the funds this past weekend. Hopefully he will process it
and set out my stuff in a timely manner. It is interesting that you have the
Breezy. I am actually sort of collecting several designs and hope to use the
best features of each of them to build my plane. My original thought was to
built somthing useing square Alu. tubes like I have on my gyrocopter. But
then decided that the square tubing would be too heavy for the strength
compared to round tubes. Perhaps I am out to lunch on that theory, as I see
that the breezy has squaure tube for its airframe. Is the Breezy's airframe
made from 2" square tube?
I didn't realize that the Monofly had a 5" tube and fiberglass ribs. The
fiberglass ribs don't bother me much, but I'm not especialy keen on that 5"
wing spar. Thats gonna be a chunk of change. Maybe another wing design could
be used instead. Perhaps when all is said and done the breezy may be the way
to go.
I have a R447 on my Gyro with a 66' WD prop. I hope to transplant it to the
new aircraft. What are you useing on the Breezy?
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Alfred (Arrio) Riopel "more toys than time"
ar...@home.com (Virginia)
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Ross Carlisle
finished a restoration then got scared and let it sit for 2 years. I bout
it for $200. I had intended to get it flying but found too many flaws. Im
now just using it for parts.
I like the idea of the sqaure tube fuselage but like you, Im not crazy about
the monofly wing design...Although it is very strong. My breezy has no
spars...just leading and trailing edge. Its built like most UL's. This
isnt a bad way to go. It would be the cheapest.
Another alternative would be to build the wing like the Gypsy. Foam ribs
capped with aluminum. This design also has no spars. The Gypsy is designed
to be all wire braced.
All in all...The monofly wind design is good. Wicks has the tube for
19.54/Ft. That would be about 650.00 for the tube alone...But you would
have a very strong wing.
Ross
PS...If you want some pics of the Breezy, Ill take some for you this
weekend. Just send me an email so I dont forget.
Alfred Riopel
parts, there is a lot of stuff you could use for another. Specifically, the
engine. Great deal!
You mentioned that you have decided to keep the Breezy for parts. Are
building another? How much of the original breezy do you think you can use?
Actually I would prefer a square tube airframe, I just wasn't sure it would
be the lightest way to go for a 103 aircraft. If I were to build the
Monofly, I most likely would opt for another construction style on the wing.
Like you said, a wing with leading and trailing edge tubes with either tube
or foam board ribs.
I just looked at the Gypsy on the VULA site. The wing looks similar to that
of the Affordaplane wing. Though the Gypsy used wires I suppose one could
use struts instead, like the Affordaplane. I have the plans for the
Affordaplane too, I'm just not crazy about a tractor engine installations
for a UL style plane.
If you could take some pics of you Breezy sometime, that would be great.
Thanks.
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Alfred (Arrio) Riopel "more toys than time"
ar...@home.com (Virginia)
http://members.home.net/arrio
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scott augustus
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thanks
Scott
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Ross Carlisle
one using this one as a model...Now I think Im just going to use it for
parts. I might put the engine on an N3 Pup and the instruments will
probably go on a PPC Im building. When I run out of projects Ill probably
build a monofly. I like that design.
Ive also got a powered paraglider and a Phantom that are both flying, so
they take up most of my time in the summer. Winter is for building.
Ross
> From: "Alfred Riopel" <ar...@home.com>
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> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 02:35:19 GMT
> Subject: Re: Teman Monofly
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scott augustus
Scott
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Ross Carlisle
fine. The breezy I have in the backyard has a cowling.
Ross
> From: "scott augustus" <saug...@sympatico.ca>
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scott augustus
the craft?
Scott
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recall if they were folded or removed and strapped to the trailer.