Wee Bee

On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:52:51 -0800 (PST), Monk
wrote:

On Dec 25, 1:54*pm, Monk wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-TE7MOuo7c

Monk

Any plans out there for this build?

Why would you want to? It wouldn't be a very good airplane for sport
flying; it was desinged for one purpose only: to be the smallest in
the world (and it isn't even that, any more).

-Dana

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When Columbus came to America, there were no taxes, no debts, and no pollution. The women did all the work while the men hunted or fished all day. Ever since then, a bunch of idiotic do-gooders have been trying to "improve" the place.

Dana M. Hague wrote:
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:52:51 -0800 (PST), Monk
wrote:


On Dec 25, 1:54 pm, Monk wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-TE7MOuo7c

Monk

Any plans out there for this build?


Why would you want to? It wouldn't be a very good airplane for sport
flying; it was desinged for one purpose only: to be the smallest in
the world (and it isn't even that, any more).

-Dana



Add to that. it's highly unlikely there were any plans per se drawn for
it in the first place...

On Dec 28, 8:59*am, Dana M. Hague wrote:
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:52:51 -0800 (PST), Monk
wrote:

On Dec 25, 1:54*pm, Monk wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-TE7MOuo7c

Monk

Any plans out there for this build?

Why would you want to?

I don't know. I thought of this conecpt, flying prone, before about
twenty plus years ago while in High school. Then I came across this
bird.

Monk

On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:18:05 -0800 (PST), Monk
wrote:

I don't know. I thought of this conecpt, flying prone, before about
twenty plus years ago while in High school. Then I came across this
bird.

Flying prone is one thing, though I don't see the attraction... it's
been done more than once (not counting all the hang gliders), but the
Wee Bee is so marginal that flying prone is the only option.

-Dana
--
......they want you to send your money to the Lord,
but they give you their address.....

On Dec 28, 6:52*pm, Dana M. Hague wrote:
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:18:05 -0800 (PST), Monk
wrote:

I don't know. *I thought of this conecpt, flying prone, before about
twenty plus years ago while in High school. *Then I came across this
bird.

Flying prone is one thing, though I don't see the attraction... it's
been done more than once (not counting all the hang gliders), but the
Wee Bee is so marginal that flying prone is the only option.


A couple of guys from Dayton Ohio had the same idea, probably a bit
before OP was in High School.

--

FF

Monk wrote:
On Dec 28, 8:59 am, Dana M. Hague wrote:
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:52:51 -0800 (PST), Monk
wrote:

On Dec 25, 1:54 pm, Monk wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-TE7MOuo7c
Monk
Any plans out there for this build?
Why would you want to?

I don't know. I thought of this conecpt, flying prone, before about
twenty plus years ago while in High school. Then I came across this
bird.

Monk

There was a young aviator who looked to have a promising career in
aviation ahead of him that had the same idea. His incarnation of the
WeeBee had a bigger engine and had him strapped to the bottom of the
fuselage rather than the top. There was a web site that detailed his
vision and its fortune, but I can't find it at the moment. A friend of
his hosted it as I recall (BlueSkyGirl?)

Charles

The Northrop MX-324 rocket powered test plane was flown in the prone
"head first" position.

It landed on skids.

John Meyers was the test pilot on it and commented that during landing
he had to put his chin about 1 foot off of the ground at about 100 mph.

He said it was a "mind expanding experience"...

On Dec 29, 1:52*pm, cavelamb wrote:
The Northrop MX-324 rocket powered test plane was flown in the prone
"head first" position.

It landed on skids.

John Meyers was the test pilot on it and commented that during landing
he had to put his chin about 1 foot off of the ground at about 100 mph.

He said it was a "mind expanding experience"...

From the looks of this picture, he's as high off the ground as any
spamcan driver. http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/...ated_color.jpg

Monk

On Dec 29, 9:22*pm, Monk wrote:
On Dec 29, 1:52*pm, cavelamb wrote:

The Northrop MX-324 rocket powered test plane was flown in the prone
"head first" position.

It landed on skids.

John Meyers was the test pilot on it and commented that during landing
he had to put his chin about 1 foot off of the ground at about 100 mph.

He said it was a "mind expanding experience"...

From the looks of this picture, he's as high off the ground as any
spamcan driver. *http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/...ated_color.jpg

Monk

Never mind. This picture puts in better perspective.
http://northrop.host.sk/images/MX-32...rry_Crosby.jpg

Monk

"Monk" wrote

Never mind. This picture puts in better perspective.
http://northrop.host.sk/images/MX-32...rry_Crosby.jpg

After looking at the two pictures, I would put his eyeballs at between 3 and
4 feet off the ground.

Still, that's quite a perspective, since it is your melon that is out in
front of almost everything else, and it is what would get smushed, if
anything "bad" happened. Hmmm.

Also, I have never read about it's flight characteristics, but the small
fin, and the fact that it would be totally blanketed in a spin, I would bet
a very mean flat spin could develop, if it was ever spun.

I had never seen that one before. Interesting, and probably slick as snot!
It would be fun to build one with the pilot sitting like a sleek glider
pilot, and with a pusher prop.
--
Jim in NC