Flying MBs

I have hours and hours of fying with two stroke engines...the problem of reliability is with our engines, not two strokes in general.


You get a more efficient set up with a prop for each engine.

There were several popular early U/L's that ran twins usually 10-12 hp each.
Some even used a Partner chain saws, and the belt drive was a converted/glorified chainsaw bar! Most ran loud, small direct drive props.

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lympne light plane competition - Google Search

Some of those planes flew on VERY little power.

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here's the answer guys ExtremeToysForBoys.com - Kitewing IV8 Dacron

Went to the Cove park yesterday. It is an inlet off the CT River just south of Hartford. All the boats and leaves are gone. I watched the seagulls for an hour. Wow, aerobatics in a good breeze with the flick of wing tips. One seemed to be chasing a bug in midair. Both deserved to win that mortal combat, but I certainly could not see who did. Truly poetry in motion.

Reminded me of the book Johnathon Livingston Seagull; "For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight." Great book.

I sat there planing future flight paths, take offs and landings of a yet to be built marine gyro plane. (and how to disengage safety harness upside down and under water, lol)

This insane moment was brought to you by the EXXON corporation and no other apparent reason...

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It will be a magnificent thing
Underneath is a boat
So that it will float
And riches to Dan it will bring.......

Speaking of a plane which flew under very little power, the Leeon Davis DA-11.



It uses a 2 cyl 4cycle Briggs & Stratton Vanguard 18 hp lawnmower engine direct driving the prop. On the cowling there is this script: "MOWER POWER TO THE PEOPLE"

It could cruise at 125 mph and red line at 155 mph.

"MOWER POWER TO THE PEOPLE" !!!!!! Love it!!
Thanks eDj, 2 funny

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Ilikeabikea; He'll build a motorbike with a wing
It will be a magnificent thing
Underneath is a boat
So that it will float
And riches to Dan it will bring.......

Just remember not to run the boat on the rocks when asking for a rum & coke on the rocks......

I found an interesting glider at Basic Ultralight Glider
They offer free plans to download also.

Thinking about a flying MB and also learning that it may take 25mph for flight, I wonder if, after viewing this particular glider, if the HT could be used, but not with a prop.

I think of a recumbent bike with an HT, which moves it down the field. Since this glider only needs a light thermal for lift to achieve flight, wouldn't it be reasonable to say that if you were cruising down the road, into a headwind, liftoff could be achieved?

This way, we wouldn't need a prop for it, but rely on the MB to motor down the road into a headwind to catch a thermal for liftoff.

I like that old school bobber they got on that site!

You could get a gas charged inflatable raft or even a smaller floatation device that can be built around you seat or even the base of the plane. Get that aircraft spruce catalog (free) -they got all kinds of stuff in there for emergency water crashes.

You could even go so far as a small emergency oxygen tank that is strapped to your jacket and when you need it, just put the face mask on. I think a floatation device of some sort or even inflatable floats would be an added bonus to your plane.