"Detroit Dolza" wrote in
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| Hi -
| I've been scoping out the cygnet as a good 1st plane to build, and I'm
| wondering if someone has talked to anyone who's made, is making, or
| owns one. The plans seems scarce so far. No one at Viking has
| returned my calls but, they may just be on vacation.
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| AviationBanter seems to be about the only bulletin board that mentions
| them, and it only came up when I did a google keyword search. Please
| feel free to get in touch here or at .
|
| Thanks in advance -
| John Dolza
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| Detroit Dolza
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The Cygnet was one plane I was seriously considering building around
1984. I stopped by Rex Taylor's operation in Eloy AZ. and looked it
over. I lost my medical before I actually started to build anything.
(Did invest in a year of welding courses at the local junior college.)

I read everything about it that I could get my hands on at the time. The
main complaint was about the complexity of building the geodesic or
lattice wing. While it made the wing very strong it had a lot of parts.
Here is some information you may not have seen:

Cygnet - An airplane that deserves to be better known. It's a shoulder
winged 2 seater with a touch of forward sweep to keep the center of lift
right where it needs to be while still having the wing spar pass behind
the cockpit. The wood wings use geodetic construction, fabric covered,
attached to a steel tube fuselage. Designed by Bert Sisler, it's a fine
little bush plane, it's one of the three designs that HAPI promoted to
sell engines for (the other being the Dragonfly and the Corby Starlet).
I have seen few completions, it seems pretty labor intensive, the wings
in particular have a lot of little wooden parts. There doesn't seem to
be much a builder community for this airplane. A British builder
confirms the agony of the wing construction (link now dead).

KITPLANES did an article recently, "Sampling a Sisler Cygnet", June
1999, p. 6. Viking Aviation, run by Rex Taylor's son, apparently still
sells plans, as of 1999. I just (May 2002) had an E-mail from the
designer: "Am currently completing restoration of original Cygnet and
have installed a Jabiru 2200. Originally had a 1835 VW and performance
was fine, but wanted electrics. Latest I know about plans is they are
being sold by Pat Taylor @ Viking Aircraft Ltd P.O. Box 646, Elkkhorn,
WI 53121."

Above obtained by scrolling down this page:
http://users.lmi.net/~ryoung/Sonerai/rant.html

Here is something current about the Whistler/Cignet:
http://www.eaa25.org/ The second article down. You may be able to
obtain information from him.

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Anyolmouse

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