Texas Parasol Plans...

Richard Lamb wrote:


Those drawings are straight from my first parasol.
And yes, I did fly it just as it is drawn, with the exception
of using a VW on it rather than a Rotax.

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That's a lie and Richard knows it.

The set of plans Richard has posted are the same ones he sold to me
(and many others) for $80. As of February, 2003, I had identified
numerous errors in the plans and provided corrections to several other
builders. Richard's contribution was to refer to my questions as
'yammering.'

I was trained to audit blueprints for errors but the errors in the
Parasol drawings will be obvious to all -- compare the dimensions of
the cabanes to the width of the fuselage, or the dimensions shown for
the landing gear/strut carry-throughs.

Richard built a plane. And Richard made some drawings. But the
drawings depict parts that COULD NOT FIT TOGETHER. The extent of the
errors made it clear that they were not simple typos -- they appeared
to be for a fuselage OTHER than the one shown in the drawings. This
lead to an interesting series of exchanges between Richard and I in
2003, because if you modified the carry-throughs to attach to the
fuselage, it caused interference between the landing gear or the
struts. So which did he adjust? He could offer no explanation, making
it painfully clear that he had NOT designed the airframe and had taken
measurements from at least two airframes in creating 'his' drawings,
which he then sold to the public at eighty bucks a whack. Waytago,
Richard.

Since the parts don't fit, the plane won't fly, which makes any
question of safety moot. But in the process of discovering that you'll
**** away a lot of money on metal that will end up being unusable.

I still have the file of drawings, should anyone be interested. But
which way you go with the corrections is up to you -- I abandoned the
project when it became obvious it was a scam.

-R.S.Hoover