On Jul 22, 1:19*am, Bob Luten wrote:
On Jul 21, 9:52*am, Dave Nadler wrote: On Jul 21, 10:08*am, Brad wrote:

On Jul 21, 4:24*am, Dave Nadler wrote:

On Jul 20, 1:02*pm, cernauta wrote:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/bu...-ravyuneec.htm...

The article vaguely states Yuneec has acquired the designs.
I'm guessing this is a design license, not production ?
I'll ask them when I see them at Oshkosh next week...

Dave,

On a closely related subject, I am interested in any tilt-up self-
launch implementations that close the main engine bay doors at the end
of the mast extract cycle and then somehow reopen the doors to allow
retraction. *As I recall, the Antares does that, but Dick Vangrunsven
(reasonably close to me) couldn't tell me how his did it. *The two
choices seem to be (1) electric actuators, or (2) some sort of monkey-
motion mechanical arrangement.

Can you tell me/us how the Antares does it?

Thanks,

Antares has a hydraulic system, used for mast, engine bay doors,
and landing gear retraction. My P-tube is still manual, but wait for
next year.

See ya, Dave "YO electric"