Ultralight motors?

wrote:
Anthony W wrote:

I'm 6'5" and I could never seriously consider an ultralight. I don't
know what engine will be in my first plane but only cost will take one
of these out of the running.


IIRC Steve Woods who designed the SkyPup ultralight is 6'4" and fit
in the cockpit nicely. The pup has a design weight of 195 lbs dry
using the Cayuna 215 engine but with design gross of 400 lbs you
need to be a skinny 6'5" to not exceed that.

There is a very active Yahoo CLUB (not group):

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Skypup-club

Thanks but I'm not a skinny 6'5". I was 6'7"+ before my last bike crash
but that's another story, anyway I'm rather stocky. The last time I was
skinny, I was 248 pounds and my doctor was conserned that I had lost to
much weight.

Tony

"Anthony W" wrote

Thanks but I'm not a skinny 6'5". I was 6'7"+ before my last bike crash
but that's another story, anyway I'm rather stocky. The last time I was
skinny, I was 248 pounds and my doctor was conserned that I had lost to
much weight.

I hate to burst your bubble, but that would be considered moderately to
severely over weight. You need a new doctor.
--
Jim in NC

Morgans wrote:
"Anthony W" wrote


Thanks but I'm not a skinny 6'5". I was 6'7"+ before my last bike crash
but that's another story, anyway I'm rather stocky. The last time I was
skinny, I was 248 pounds and my doctor was conserned that I had lost to
much weight.


I hate to burst your bubble, but that would be considered moderately to
severely over weight. You need a new doctor.

Both you and my college health professor that said I sould weigh under
180, are both full of ****. I had a hydrostatic weighing just to proove
that wrong. My lean body mass is 219 pounds. Add the 10 percent
recomended body fat and the's 240.9 so the doctor that told me he was
concerned I may have lost too much weight was just a little bit off.

The sad part was after a year of body building I only picked up a little
over a pound of muscle on my next hydrostatic weighing.

Tony