how roll fuselage/engine package

I don't know what an "M1" is. I think you you plan on mounting your
engine to the fuselage, then mounting the fuselage on some sort of
wheeled table so that you can move the assembly around, and also run the
engine (not while you're moving it around, of course). And you want it
to be simple, cheap and easy to build, made out of 2 x 4's held together
with drywall screws and duct tape.

I happen to know a very simple solution, much simpler than building a
custom carriage. This method has been thoroughly tested and it really
is the way that at least 99% of successful aircraft builders do it.
Attach both wings and the landing gear to the aircraft, and then hook up
all engine and airframe systems before running the engine. That way the
aircraft is easy to move around on its own wheels, you have a safe
engine test stand for engine break in, and you're running the aircraft
as a complete system, the way it was designed to work. Why would anyone
want to do it any differently?

Skystar Aircraft, manufacturers of the Kitfox, almost went bankrupt when
a runaway 182 went through their hangar. The A&P mechanic decided to
test run the engine without installing the pilot seats. He had the
throttle linkage backwards. When the engine ran away from him, he lost
his balance in the unfurnished cockpit and became a baggage compartment
passenger while the 182 made a full throttle tour of Skystar's hangar.
$300,000 in uninsured damage for Skystar.

That sounds like the kind of adventure you're preparing for.


Dick wrote:
Having a "better G" idea, decided to hang my engine on M1 fuselage without
wings in order to have the ability to roll it outside the hanger for breakin
efforts.

After struggling with several versions of a wooden framed, wheeled "wagon",
a thought occurred that I may be "reinventing the wheel" (as usual).

Has anyone out there found a method to move the "engine on fuselage without
wings" or move a completed plane with one wing removed?? The M1 has main
gear on the wings, not on the fuselage.

Thanks, Dick



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