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Here is a fun project from Home Depot - Home Built Airplane :)

 
You really expect to get level wings from a plane made out of Home Depot lumber????

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It fits the true spirit of experimental airplanes. The rest of us building experimental airplanes are not really "experimenting", are we?
 
He spent a lot of time working on the airfoil design. You can tell.
 
Video is from 2011 and no later vids made. I would guess he never finished it. That electrical box joystick gimbal is downright scary.

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The electrical box gimbal would probably survive. The plywood standoffs with the thin metal clips it's mounted to, OTOH...
 
Some experimentals built from proven plans and blessed by an inspector crash on the first flight and kill the pilot. At least this guy’s plane will never make it past closeout inspection and never leave the ground. The workmanship, materials and engineering shown in his wing ensure that it will be static display only, so to his credit he will never be killed in his design. Also, the fact the he is planning to use a 20-25 hp lawn tractor engine will keep him nice and safe on the ground.
 
Brad Smith said:
Some experimentals built from proven plans and blessed by an inspector crash on the first flight and kill the pilot. At least this guy’s plane will never make it past closeout inspection and never leave the ground. The workmanship, materials and engineering shown in his wing ensure that it will be static display only, so to his credit he will never be killed in his design. Also, the fact the he is planning to use a 20-25 hp lawn tractor engine will keep him nice and safe on the ground.
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There is no "closeout inspection" in the US, just an airworthiness inspection. But, in general, yeah - that. Dig the plywood spar with the butt splice in the middle, and figure out the weight of a wing made from 3/4 ply with a few cubic feet of aluminum screwed to it. Pretty sure the wing would fold before it became airborne, assuming the lawn tractor motor could ever get it to rotation speed in the first place. The design itself will protect its builder. :)
 
we have a local guy here that has designed and made more than one plane, his last was out of Styrofoam laminated with fiber glass. He performed taxi and low speed tests on it but never actually flew it.
 
I seem to recall someone completing one of these... and died flying it. Wasn't there an FAA safety video based on this?
 
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