Skycather's not TOO ugly, just needs tailwheel

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Is the glass at all structural, or does the steel tubing extend to the
tail?

Bertie

I think all the way to the tail. Met a glastar rep on the ramp once.
He gave me their promo DVD for the Sportsman. II found the plane very
appealing because it was about a hour (2 max) of work to go from trike
to tail dragger with two people. The DVD shows the operation -- it is
really cleverly engineered.

It's a pretty fast bugger, too, for being able to land all over the
place. Tundra tires!


Yeah, I remember seeing pics of it on tundra tires. They were appearing
like mad in SA for a while. Saw one at an airshow a little while back. Til
prefer a ragbag though!


Does cost a lot though. Another dream not happening

Well, that's the other thing about an airplane like that..

Bertie

On Jan 9, 8:44 pm, wrote:
Is the glass at all structural, or does the steel tubing extend to the
tail?

Bertie

I think all the way to the tail. Met a glastar rep on the ramp once.
He gave me their promo DVD for the Sportsman. II found the plane very
appealing because it was about a hour (2 max) of work to go from trike
to tail dragger with two people. The DVD shows the operation -- it is
really cleverly engineered.

Pictures he
http://www.glasairaviation.com/kitcontentglastar.html

You can see the structure ending immediately aft of the forward
cabin. There are a couple of brackets attached to the composite shell,
just aft of the windows, where the struts from the cagewill go. The
struts aren't installed in the picture.

Dan

* * You can see the structure ending immediately aft of the forward
cabin. There are a couple of brackets attached to the composite shell,
just aft of the windows, where the struts from the cagewill go. The
struts aren't installed in the picture.

* * * * * Dan

So, what happens to these composites when they crash? There are a lot
of composites these days, and a bunch of LSA composites.

I imagine that stuff shattering on hard impact cutting the passengers
into tiny shreads. Or at least cutting them up really bad.

But maybe they do really well. Anyone got some facts on it?

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:40:44 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

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We did a Glastar in the taildragger configuration. It has a
steel-tube frame inside it, to which the wings, gear, engine mount all
attach. Converting it from a trike, say, involves taking the nosegear
strut out of its socket in that frame and turfing it, and moving the
mains forward into another set of sockets already there. The tailwheel
bolts through hard points in the aft tailcone.


Is the glass at all structural, or does the steel tubing extend to the
tail?

The glass is structural. The tubing is a sort of "cage" around just the cabin
area...it includes the wing and strut attach points, the pickup points for the
engine mount, the seat mounting, and the main and nose gear attach points.

http://www.wanttaja.com/glastar.jpg

Ron Wanttaja

The glass is structural. *The tubing is a sort of "cage" around just the cabin
area...it includes the wing and strut attach points, the pickup points for the
engine mount, the seat mounting, and the main and nose gear attach points.

http://www.wanttaja.com/glastar.jpg

Ron Wanttaja

That's right, I forgot!

Doh!

On Jan 9, 6:40 pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
wrote in news:5d010219-865f-4d06-a28e-
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We did a Glastar in the taildragger configuration. It has a
steel-tube frame inside it, to which the wings, gear, engine mount all
attach. Converting it from a trike, say, involves taking the nosegear
strut out of its socket in that frame and turfing it, and moving the
mains forward into another set of sockets already there. The tailwheel
bolts through hard points in the aft tailcone.

Is the glass at all structural, or does the steel tubing extend to the
tail?

Bertie

The steel structure ends immediately aft of the seats, with a
couple of struts running to the tailcone above the rear windows where
the compositie structure is a bit light.

Dan