Double that if you count is ego!

Dan wrote:
Juan Jimenez wrote:
"Richard Riley" wrote in message
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On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 07:11:27 GMT, Alan Baker
wrote:

In article ,
"Peter Dohm" wrote:

There's a picture in the gallery of a static test of the wings where
it
claims that 500kg on each wing is equal to 2.5g.

That implies a weight of 400kg, which seems pretty crazy even as an
*empty* weight.

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Why?

(400 Kg is about 860 Lbs)
OK. Give me a few examples...
860 lbs isn't outragous as an empty weight. Off the top of my head,
the Ercoup is 815, the Aeronca 7ac is 710, the Cessna 120 about 780
lbs.

But 860 gross weight does seem ambitious. They list useful load as
530 lbs, so an empty weight of 330 lbs? The engine alone is 132. So
the airframe, control systems, panel, upholstery, canopy, retractable
gear, fuel tanks etc is under 200 lbs? That seems unlikely.

And 2.5 G's seems like an awfully low number to test to.

If their gross weight is real it means their stall speed could be, too
- at 50 square feet it's only a CLmax of 1.8.

Empty weight of my BD-5J is 358.8 lbs. I set gross weight at 850 lbs. Full
tanks and me in it plus parachute, helmet, misc. puts it at about 814 lbs.


You are planning on losing 100 pounds? Judging from your video I peg
you at about 250 pounds.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired?