And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I suspect this is AI. There is a German aircraft manufacturer called Aquila (latin for eagle) but they manufacture low winged land planes with that empennage configuration. Maybe this is from a marketing sales pitch to see if there was any interest? The wheels at the front of the float are impossible, I see no retraction mechanism to lift them out of the water. On takeoff they would drag in the water forcing the nose down so the plane couldn't get "on the step" to accelerate to takeoff speed. On landing they would drag in the water and the airplane would end up on its back. I also don't see cables to raise and steer the water rudders or any pump sockets in the top of the floats to pump out any water if the float is leaking. Al_in_Ottawa
The wheels appear to be on hinged mounts it seems. Perhaps the wheels are pulled up, back then pinned above the float for normal water ops but can be dropped down to taxi out of the water? If could get a look at float rears I would guess there are a pair of recessed wheels like the heelie shoes have. I've seen this configuration in home build float planes afore. More usually, the front wheels are left at dock so as to avoid lugging around their weight. No reason you couldn't just pop them up out of water manually and haul them about.
The rotor appears very small in diameter to me, but I'm no aviation expert. It does have style. The body shape is wicked cool ! Almost like a mini-plane.
i'd commute in that!
ReplyDeleteI suspect this is AI. There is a German aircraft manufacturer called Aquila (latin for eagle) but they manufacture low winged land planes with that empennage configuration. Maybe this is from a marketing sales pitch to see if there was any interest?
ReplyDeleteThe wheels at the front of the float are impossible, I see no retraction mechanism to lift them out of the water. On takeoff they would drag in the water forcing the nose down so the plane couldn't get "on the step" to accelerate to takeoff speed. On landing they would drag in the water and the airplane would end up on its back. I also don't see cables to raise and steer the water rudders or any pump sockets in the top of the floats to pump out any water if the float is leaking.
Al_in_Ottawa
The wheels appear to be on hinged mounts it seems.
DeletePerhaps the wheels are pulled up, back then pinned above the float for normal water ops but can be dropped down to taxi out of the water?
If could get a look at float rears I would guess there are a pair of recessed wheels like the heelie shoes have.
I've seen this configuration in home build float planes afore.
More usually, the front wheels are left at dock so as to avoid lugging around their weight.
No reason you couldn't just pop them up out of water manually and haul them about.
https://competition.adesignaward.com/ada-winner-design.php?ID=67825
ReplyDeleteThe rotor appears very small in diameter to me, but I'm no aviation expert. It does have style. The body shape is wicked cool ! Almost like a mini-plane.
ReplyDeleteThat prop?
DeleteFive blades to make the diameter smaller but you have a wicked amount of thrust given it HAS five blades.
https://www.tuvie.com/award-winning-alpina-aircraft-design-for-mountainous-areas/
ReplyDelete