Apis and Viva production acquired by Yuneec aircraft, Shanghai

On Jul 21, 9:52*am, Dave Nadler wrote:
On Jul 21, 10:08*am, Brad wrote:



On Jul 21, 4:24*am, Dave Nadler wrote:

On Jul 20, 1:02*pm, cernauta wrote:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/bu...-ravyuneec.htm...

The article vaguely states Yuneec has acquired the designs.
I'm guessing this is a design license, not production ?
I'll ask them when I see them at Oshkosh next week...

Dave,

On a closely related subject, I am interested in any tilt-up self-
launch implementations that close the main engine bay doors at the end
of the mast extract cycle and then somehow reopen the doors to allow
retraction. As I recall, the Antares does that, but Dick Vangrunsven
(reasonably close to me) couldn't tell me how his did it. The two
choices seem to be (1) electric actuators, or (2) some sort of monkey-
motion mechanical arrangement.

Can you tell me/us how the Antares does it?

Thanks,

On Jul 22, 1:19*am, Bob Luten wrote:
On Jul 21, 9:52*am, Dave Nadler wrote: On Jul 21, 10:08*am, Brad wrote:

On Jul 21, 4:24*am, Dave Nadler wrote:

On Jul 20, 1:02*pm, cernauta wrote:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/bu...-ravyuneec.htm...

The article vaguely states Yuneec has acquired the designs.
I'm guessing this is a design license, not production ?
I'll ask them when I see them at Oshkosh next week...

Dave,

On a closely related subject, I am interested in any tilt-up self-
launch implementations that close the main engine bay doors at the end
of the mast extract cycle and then somehow reopen the doors to allow
retraction. *As I recall, the Antares does that, but Dick Vangrunsven
(reasonably close to me) couldn't tell me how his did it. *The two
choices seem to be (1) electric actuators, or (2) some sort of monkey-
motion mechanical arrangement.

Can you tell me/us how the Antares does it?

Thanks,

Antares has a hydraulic system, used for mast, engine bay doors,
and landing gear retraction. My P-tube is still manual, but wait for
next year.

See ya, Dave "YO electric"