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Old November 10th 09, 03:43 AM posted to rec.aviation.homebuilt
durabol[_2_]
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Default Any Moldless Composite Designed Amphibians?

I was wondering if their are any moldless composite designed
amphibians? I am definitely not an aeronautical engineer and don't
want to try to design something. Some examples of this type of
construction a Long-EZ, Cozy, Quickie, Q-200, Vari-Eze, Velocity

I know their are some drawbacks to this type of construction: mainly
that the strength to weight is less compared to molded parts, the
surface finish needs a lot of work and it must be stored out of the
sun.

Brock
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Old November 11th 09, 01:00 AM posted to rec.aviation.homebuilt
flybynightkarmarepair
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Default Any Moldless Composite Designed Amphibians?

On Nov 9, 7:43Â*pm, durabol wrote:
I was wondering if their are any moldless composite designed
amphibians? I am definitely not an aeronautical engineer and don't
want to try to design something. Some examples of this type of
construction a Long-EZ, Cozy, Quickie, Q-200, Vari-Eze, Velocity

I know their are some drawbacks to this type of construction: mainly
that the strength to weight is less compared to molded parts, the
surface finish needs a lot of work and it must be stored out of the
sun.

Brock


I'm not sure if the Glass Goose was moldless or premolded - it was
kind of a mess anyway, the blunt aft sections of the fuselage shed
vortices into the pusher prop, and produced uncommanded yaws at
cruising speed of 20-30 degrees. Gary Legare was the genius behind
that design.

Looks pre-molded: http://www.glassgoose.com/index.html
Hopefully they fixed the aerodynamic problem with vortex generators or
a redesign.

Peter van Dine out of Annapolis designed and built the Merganser:
http://www.1000aircraftphotos.com/Co...lborg/9192.htm

http://www.eaachapter478.org/Newslet...Newsletter.pdf
Look for a photo of a COMPLETELY different amphib also built by Pete.

Merganser Aircraft
7656 Binnacle Ln, Owings, MD
(410) 741-5075‎

Air Shark, Seawind, those were definitely pre-molded.

 




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