Light Aircraft Association

Homework? For shame. We do not use that term anymore. Well, maybe apart from that one time... Apologies for going dark, we have found our energies consumed by a seperate UAV project from dawn to dusk every day for the last two weeks. In between times, we've produced some basic figures and successful...

58.1kg for both wing panels, yes. I do keep forgetting to add these details...

Sorry, I really should have specified that earlier. It is indeed for landing. I'm pulling together some moment calculations to see what loads are going through the wing. According to Pazmany's weight estimate model, the wing should have an empty weight of around 58kg, with two 38l (10 US gallon) tan...

Hello again! As part of a group university project, my team is looking at the CH 701 main gear in HyperWorks. This was made unexpectedly more complicated by the inclusion of wing struts ( http://www.zenithair.com/stolch701/data/701-views.pdf ), which just happen to be attached to the gear mounting b...

Jackpot! That was just the kind of design I was hoping I could compare mine against. Thanks for the link. Also appreciate your concern. I'll take another look and see if I've missed anything.

Thanks Ed. I got the impression that very light aircraft were popular in the USA, but I wasn't sure whether it was just a small percentage of the population living in remote areas. I... don't suppose you could point me towards sources that could give me a figure on bush plane use?

Thanks for the direction! But 12G? I know these machines need to be tough... but why... how could that kind of loading occur without extreme aerobatics? V-tails... well, I think it's largely a personal thing, though the technical reasons for their implementation make sense. I learned to fly RC aircr...

Good afternoon everyone! As part of a final year project I'm running at university, I need to produce a basic design for a light cargo aircraft. My tutor (who introduced me to the LAA in the first place) initially expressed an interest in keeping the weight somewhere near a C172, though he'd be perf...