Very informative building manual for wooden airframes
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2014 10:50 am
There is a nice Bob Grimstead article on the Falco in the July Pilot magazine and a letter from Alfred Scott on page 38 explains that he is winding down the trading activity at Sequoia Aviation that has been selling the Falco F8L drawings and supplying kits and parts from the US under licence, for at least a couple of decades.
He has placed both the build manual and the drawings on his website as free downloads, just go to http://www.seqair.com
The build manual is an extremely well written and informative book of over 400 pages that is a major free resource. It may be of real interest - particularly to builders and future builders of wooden aircraft of whatever type. Indeed the first 100 pages or so are pretty generic in coverage and authoritative too. As it happens, I recently wanted to find out all I could on minimum bend radius of plywood. A Google search had produced a few odds and ends but left me wanting much more. Pages 10-7 to 10-11 of the Falco build manual told me what I wanted to know.
The drawings may not be everyone's cup of tea! There are so many of them and they are to a very high professional standard. They might well deter some would-be builders without a traditional engineering background and that would be a real pity. But taken in conjunction with the build manual they might also inspire others.
He has placed both the build manual and the drawings on his website as free downloads, just go to http://www.seqair.com
The build manual is an extremely well written and informative book of over 400 pages that is a major free resource. It may be of real interest - particularly to builders and future builders of wooden aircraft of whatever type. Indeed the first 100 pages or so are pretty generic in coverage and authoritative too. As it happens, I recently wanted to find out all I could on minimum bend radius of plywood. A Google search had produced a few odds and ends but left me wanting much more. Pages 10-7 to 10-11 of the Falco build manual told me what I wanted to know.
The drawings may not be everyone's cup of tea! There are so many of them and they are to a very high professional standard. They might well deter some would-be builders without a traditional engineering background and that would be a real pity. But taken in conjunction with the build manual they might also inspire others.