@@dukecraig2402 Hoy mate, you asked for it. I bought a brand new Whore House Red 1979 Superglide. Brand new I paid $4.700 dollars for it. I was 20 years old stationed in Altus Ok, I bought it in Lawton OK. I would ride that bike on some long rides back and forth, up and down Oklahoma. After a few hours of riding the rear cylinder would get so hot it would start predetonating. BANG BANG BANG out of the rear exhaust pipe with some flames popping. I would have to pull over and shut the bike down ...... on the side of the damn road. I thought WTF, I have to shut down a air cooled engine to let it cool??? I then had to trailer it to Raleigh NC. From there I rode it to Jax Florida.... every couple of hours BANG BANG BANG They're bitch goes again. Pull over and wait... in some bad damn spots. I was furious with HD. I rode it from Jax Fl to Ft. Pierce Fl, HAD TO PULL OVER TWICE ON HWY 95. When I got to Ft. Pierce I said PHUCK YOU HARLEY DAVIDSON and sold the damn bike for $3000 dollars. I swore I would NEVER own another damn air cooled V twin engine. They are a SERIOUS design flaw. There is no damn way in hell the rear cylinder will ever run as cool as the forward cylinder. It ain't gonna happen unless, you turn the engine sideways like this. ONLY THEN will both cylinders be at the same temperature. I stayed away from Harley Davidson for almost as long as you've been riding them. Well, I had to have a backup vehicle last year..... I cant afford a decent used car so..... I bought another Harley Davidson. A beautiful 2005 Screaming Eagle 103CI Electra Glide Candy Cherry Red. It only had 5062 miles on it and everything on it works, I paid $8500 for it! I just had a Stage one upgrade and a Ultra Cool Oil Cooler put on. This October I'm going to have Amsoil Adam add a set of Love Jugs to it. If I ever have to pull over and let another Harley Davidson air cooled engine cool off, I'll sell it as fast as I can and buy a damn Honda Goldwing. There better bikes anyway. I've been riding Harleys since 1979, I dont take any shit from them anymore, I'll jump ship at the first sign of trouble. Have a nice day.
@@dukecraig2402 Prolly a joke since they run warm naturally which worries some that aren't used to what is actually normal operating temp for their engines. Though if you live somewhere with triple digit heat and are a heavy guy they certainly don't appreciate stop and go city traffic with no breeze lol.
2 benefits to a Harley powered plane: 1- it will most likely break down before it ever gets off the ground, greatly reducing the risk of a crash, and 2- if it does get off the ground all you have to do is follow the trail of oil to the crash site making location and recovery of the crashed plane much easier and faster.
@@dj6769 I can say this joke since I have 2 brothers that ride Harley's and one works for the local dealership. 🤣 They on the other hand didn't find any humor in it.
a little bit of history the first of indonesian made plane, WEL RI-X (1948), was powered by a harley engine sadly the plane was lost after an accident causing a grenade to detonate inside the train carriage containing the plane when it was sent back to Madiun where it was built though, fast forward to 1981, 2 flying replicas of the plane was built in Jakarta and Bandung, while the Jakarta version was built close to the original spec, it crashed and broke the left wing, and after getting fixed, it was deemed inoperable and given to Satria Mandala military museum in Jakarta, and then the Bandung version, was revised to use an engine from VW Beetle and a more aerodynamic cowling, can fly smoothly after the angle of incidence was increased by 5 degrees, afterwards the plane was given to Dirgantara Mandala airforce museum in Jogjakarta both planes can still be visited at their respective museums today
Sketchy is an understatement. That’s as close to becoming a one-armed paper hanger as you ever want to get. NEVER use both hands on a prop. ALWAYS grab it with only one hand and prop it in a motion as if you are just walking by. That way, if you stumble, you’ll be clear of the prop! P.S., If you ever want to donate that machine to an Aviation Museum dedicated to getting the machines from 30’s & 40’s airworthy & flying again, let me know! We have the resources to make it happen!
Exactly what I was thinking. Neighbor bought a brand new bagger last summer, he's been left stranded on long rides three times. Twice engine issues third time his shifter lever just completely broke off. For a 30k bike that's unacceptable.
That actually looks like a Mini Max airframe! My father had two engines in his shop trailer... one mid-2000s Harley, and a 2013 Rotax. He wanted to build two airplanes with me once he got moved down here from Alaska... one for him, and one for me. He died 5 months after getting here, and earlier this year I took a trip down to New Mexico to see the extended family. One of the airframes was there.... 😢. It was seriously hard to stand there and look at that, and realize I have no way to finish it. Seriously though... this is a real aircraft, and it's no more risky to build an EAA compliant aircraft with a Harley engine than it is to use a VW engine... and VWs have been powering experimental aircraft for about 80 years. Harleys are ligh enough to put on an ultralight, and that's what this is... a MiniMax ultralight.
I fondly remeber the day I soloed in a Cessna 150 at the age of 19 in 1973 after only 8 hours instruction at Mayport Naval Flying Club. What a wonderful time it would be to fly this plane.
Kinda reminds me of getting that first used mini bike. SO exciting & fun, until it cuts out. Then you finally get it running, and take off! ... When the throttle sticks open & the brakes fail..... .. Even get airborne... for a time...
I befriended a man who was about 90 years old and he was well known in our community for building planes. One time I was talking to him and asked him if he had a pilot's license. he said hell no, I've been building planes before you could purchase them and when you could buy them they were sold at a dollar a pound. his name was hezzy and he had the coolest airplanes in his garage built out of all kinds of things like this one. he had the mignot flying flea, the parasol and a bunch of custom planes he had built out a scraps from his farm and he flew these all the time it was so cool to see
Wilson Miller, from Oneida, NY designed and built this in circa 1927. The original engine was replaced with a 1928 Harley-Davidson. It's initial flight was summer 1927.
I'm building one with 10 weedeaters motors and things are looking great and coming together with my JB weld and gorilla glue .. Can't wait to see my wife take her up for the very first time this weekend and I hope to get it all on video ...
Beautiful flite! Your take off and landing skillfully executed. Harley moto great for drones. Not good if you want airborne. That is a very cool plane. I want to see you fly it.
DUDE! Damn y’all get to play with the best, craziest stuff around! Now THAT plane setup oughta’ve woken ANY sleep left in you, for the foreseeable future 😳‼️😂 I could imagine that being three HD’s grafted together for somewhat of a better radial engine, per smoothness in performance, if such a thing could ever be associated with an HD!
The airplane looks very similar to a Mini Max. Should fly great as long as that motor keeps turning that propeller fast enough. I would climb right over the airfield and practice dead stick engine out landings. Not a matter of if that motor will quit it’s a matter of when it will quit.
Gee I wish I could get as excited during a walking pace taxi run. I feel bad. Maybe special needs person. Notice “dad” never let go or was pushing it along. Wonderful father
well it had already flown once, by the highschool kid that built it. was one of my favorite pieces while i was working there. always wanted to fly it myself.
@mattsabeast5 Screw the faa. They're too busy making up laws they then enforce on toy drone operators. Not to keep the people safe, but to ensure tyrants are the only ones with the ability to fly a camera over police barricades or over property of corporations getting footage of said corporation illegally dumping waste into water systems. Those were the 2 events that made gov decide to regulate the hobby.
@@mattsabeast5 just a quick up and down make sure it flies why you got to hate on everybody's parade they're out in the country they wouldn't go any higher than to 300 ft your just trying to be a party pooper man
@@coyster530 no I'm just being realistic. I get it man I'm 35 I've been skirting the law my whole life. But your on a platform full of kids, kids with dads that don't teach them better, kids that will immediately mimic and improve this to be electric and made of carbon fiber because they aren't supervised and have the resources. The world has changed and it's really easy for a young man's life to be ruined because they see us old farts talking about our youth while we play with our adult toys.
They also required the winds off the Atlantic & a catapault launch for sustained flights. It took until 1905 for a real self-propelled aircraft engine design of theirs.
@@MadMarkythe ultralight section generally prefers Subaru EA82 engines which produce between 88hp and 97 hp. They're considered the "best cheap engine" for kit planes that fit within the ultralight category requirements of the FAA. There's no way an old V-twin would ever work.
I'd love to have something like this. One of the fields on my farm is long & level enough to take off/land small aircraft. I'd def fly this thing around the farm
You better be very careful starting the engine like that. I had a friend of mine named Teddy do that too and it ended up chopping him up into hamburger. We all celebrated his life and honored him and made Teddy burgers for supper😮
Everybody talking smack on the H-D, I've never seen an Indian motor mounted to an airplane or heard of one either. Motorcycle engines were used because they were light, reasonably cheap and produced enough power to get the thing off the ground. Les Long in Oregon built a series of lightplanes and designed a horizontal opposed engine using H-D cylinders and other parts on his own design crankcase. Ford model T and model A engines have been used along with the flathead V-8 in a certified factory airplane. There have been others over the years, even now.
I would trust the plane with a Harley engine. I'd just have a parachute at the ready in case it wants to be a clunker in the air and stall on me. If all the flaps are functioning and have good support, I say it is flight-ready!
@@manuwilson4695 It's very obviously a real aircraft. My advice to the museum, would be to get an expert on aircraft of the day, and have them go through everything, and give them an idea of it's actual airworthiness.
@Detroit Micro Sound Want my advice?...deactivate the silly underpowered motor and put the "aircraft" in a school playground, for kids,and pretend pilots!
Check your control surface free and clear make sure your engine develops full power go find a clear Runway give it full gas go back on the stick and go fly
that thing is cool but he is got no way to got judge full power or anything he's got no gauges and it's a hundred and some years old that thing is so awesome I remember watching this video
Glenn Curtiss offered an engine to yhe Wright Brothers, but when he started asking them questions about the wings ,they declined his offer . The Wright Brothers were a joke !
If it's in the USA yes you need a minimum of a sport pilot certificate if it's over 254 lbs & a few other requirements. It's an ultralight if it's 254 pounds or less & there is basically no rules.
I talked to you about this aircraft while there at the museum and I forgot to ask if it had ever been flown. I made the comment it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission 😂
bad idea. there's some extremely important differences with airplane engines that allow them to run upside down or tilted to the side. this engine is a four stroke with standard carburetor and the first time it flies it will crash because the engine will stall when it tips at more than a 35% angle.
@@joemulholland3378 guessing the wings and fuselage are skinned with doped cloth nearly a hundred years old. i doubt it would get very high. personally i would be too terrified to crap.
I want to say that's similar to one of the first monoplanes from France. On a side note, that's about as fast as I would want to go in a HD powered airplane...
Years ago, I saw a documentary were some old retired engineer built an all metal plane that he barely fit into, it sort of resembled a miniature spitfire. It was powered by a 22 horsepower Briggs and Stratton V twin. The plane did 120 miles an hout
As an AMT, I cringed at the first second. NEVER hand prop an engine with two hand and leaning into the prop arc. ALWAYS use one hand and position yourself to where you will not fall into the path of the rotating blades. Cool creation and thought, just BE CAREFUL!!
Ain't no way I'm trusting a Harley engine in an airplane
Every bolt will rattle loose at 8000 feet😂😂😂😂
Hell, I wouldn't trust a Harley engine in a motorcycle.
i don't trust a harley engine in a harley
I wouldn't trust a Harley for a boat anchor
@@theEVILone0130 the truth hurts but......................I'm scared of evo-motor too..................however. happy h-d doing very well
For anyone considering hand staring an airplane: This is great at showing exactly how NOT to do it.
I thought I was gonna see parts fly. Hope that fellow doesn't end up learning the hard way.
Exactly what I was thinking, don’t need to put your hands on both ends of the prop. And looks like he leaned into it a little bit
@@blainepetsupplies5354 Both hands go on the same side. On the blade going down. Fingers flat on the blade, never wrapped around the trailing edge.
@@kevintaylor791how often do you do it?
Well they did it during ww1
Yeah, I’d definitely confident piloting that. It’s perfectly safe, considering it won’t even get off the ground.
I really wanted to watch him fly that thing. That would have been absolutely terrifying
Your right.
He took off and landed so fast it looked like he barely moved.
I know! That is one of the dumbest things I've seen people do..... what was the sketchy part that scared this dude?
Hand propping it incorrectly
@@Guide1089the idea that might spin loose. Or fly in the air a couple of feet.... and then stall .
Well Said! 😂
Time flyin
About time, the first Harley Davidson engine to EVER HAVE PROPER COOLING.
I've been riding Harley's for over 35 years and have never had any cooling problems.
What experiences are your comment based on?
@@dukecraig2402 A joke
@@pauloconstantino2827
So what's your experiences with them?
Got any or are you just another social media big mouth know it all?
@@dukecraig2402 Hoy mate, you asked for it. I bought a brand new Whore House Red 1979 Superglide. Brand new I paid $4.700 dollars for it. I was 20 years old stationed in Altus Ok, I bought it in Lawton OK. I would ride that bike on some long rides back and forth, up and down Oklahoma. After a few hours of riding the rear cylinder would get so hot it would start predetonating. BANG BANG BANG out of the rear exhaust pipe with some flames popping. I would have to pull over and shut the bike down ...... on the side of the damn road. I thought WTF, I have to shut down a air cooled engine to let it cool??? I then had to trailer it to Raleigh NC. From there I rode it to Jax Florida.... every couple of hours BANG BANG BANG They're bitch goes again. Pull over and wait... in some bad damn spots. I was furious with HD. I rode it from Jax Fl to Ft. Pierce Fl, HAD TO PULL OVER TWICE ON HWY 95. When I got to Ft. Pierce I said PHUCK YOU HARLEY DAVIDSON and sold the damn bike for $3000 dollars. I swore I would NEVER own another damn air cooled V twin engine. They are a SERIOUS design flaw. There is no damn way in hell the rear cylinder will ever run as cool as the forward cylinder. It ain't gonna happen unless, you turn the engine sideways like this. ONLY THEN will both cylinders be at the same temperature. I stayed away from Harley Davidson for almost as long as you've been riding them. Well, I had to have a backup vehicle last year..... I cant afford a decent used car so..... I bought another Harley Davidson. A beautiful 2005 Screaming Eagle 103CI Electra Glide Candy Cherry Red. It only had 5062 miles on it and everything on it works, I paid $8500 for it! I just had a Stage one upgrade and a Ultra Cool Oil Cooler put on. This October I'm going to have Amsoil Adam add a set of Love Jugs to it. If I ever have to pull over and let another Harley Davidson air cooled engine cool off, I'll sell it as fast as I can and buy a damn Honda Goldwing. There better bikes anyway. I've been riding Harleys since 1979, I dont take any shit from them anymore, I'll jump ship at the first sign of trouble. Have a nice day.
@@dukecraig2402 Prolly a joke since they run warm naturally which worries some that aren't used to what is actually normal operating temp for their engines. Though if you live somewhere with triple digit heat and are a heavy guy they certainly don't appreciate stop and go city traffic with no breeze lol.
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines. LoL
Sketchy! That's a Good Word!!!😂 Insane would be another. I have two words. EMERGENCY ROOM ‼️
Legend has it, they are still waiting to take off.
Had to fix multiple oil leaks first😂😂😂
It'll never get of the ground. You need to try a TRIUMPH ROCKET engine in it.
Like the Zambian space programme.
Looks like he will have a very long,long wait…
Ohhh the legend has it sheeple...
2 benefits to a Harley powered plane:
1- it will most likely break down before it ever gets off the ground, greatly reducing the risk of a crash, and
2- if it does get off the ground all you have to do is follow the trail of oil to the crash site making location and recovery of the crashed plane much easier and faster.
Well said! I love it.
😂
I like this comment, benefits but not benefits 😂
Imagine an engine being 85years old. Still running like a top. And being called un reliable
Lovely piece! 🥰👍🏻
Wow it's actually faster as an airplane engine! 😂😂😂
What's the difference between a Harley-Davidson and a vacuum cleaner?
That position of the dirtbag. 😂
Tears are flowing 😂😂😂😂❗️❗️
@@dj6769 I can say this joke since I have 2 brothers that ride Harley's and one works for the local dealership. 🤣 They on the other hand didn't find any humor in it.
I always heard it, "what's the difference between a Harley and a Hoover?". Either way, my favorite biker joke!
Didn't expect that 😅
Hahahaha as a harley rider. I approve this message
That is about as high as I would go in that thing. 😊
Yes, Yes It Is. 😂
Yep. Just taxi around in vintage flying gear, scarf blowing in the prop wash.
a little bit of history
the first of indonesian made plane, WEL RI-X (1948), was powered by a harley engine
sadly the plane was lost after an accident causing a grenade to detonate inside the train carriage containing the plane when it was sent back to Madiun where it was built
though, fast forward to 1981, 2 flying replicas of the plane was built in Jakarta and Bandung, while the Jakarta version was built close to the original spec, it crashed and broke the left wing, and after getting fixed, it was deemed inoperable and given to Satria Mandala military museum in Jakarta, and then the Bandung version, was revised to use an engine from VW Beetle and a more aerodynamic cowling, can fly smoothly after the angle of incidence was increased by 5 degrees, afterwards the plane was given to Dirgantara Mandala airforce museum in Jogjakarta
both planes can still be visited at their respective museums today
Those magnificent men in their flying machines.
A criminally underrated movie, along with The Great Race.
A plane by its very definition has to leave the ground....
Does it now? What about a hydroplane?
Well no numbers, doubt henhas a pilots license. Just for views..... anyone that flies wouldnt trust thier life to this contraption.
@@TheBeefSlayer Yes!. A hydroplane moves on water and that being the case it has definitely "left the ground "
See, I can be a smart arse too.
Right 😆
@@rocknral🤣😂.
Sketchy is an understatement.
That’s as close to becoming a one-armed paper hanger as you ever want to get.
NEVER use both hands on a prop.
ALWAYS grab it with only one hand and prop it in a motion as if you are just walking by.
That way, if you stumble, you’ll be clear of the prop!
P.S.,
If you ever want to donate that machine to an Aviation Museum dedicated to getting the machines from 30’s & 40’s airworthy & flying again, let me know!
We have the resources to make it happen!
First thing i thought of.
It does actually fly, it was shown doing just that during the episode
You summed up what I was thinking about the prop!! This is super cool and I can’t blame them for being excited!!
@@SierraThunder
Please send me a link to the Harley powered airplane video! 🙏
A Harley is a Radial Engine so it makes sense !
We had one built in Indonesia back in the 50s, and it did fly!
Love it!. Bringing old bits of kit back to life and givin it a go!. Nice one!. Nuff said!. 👍🍺
I’ve always said if Harley built airplanes, I’d never fly again! Lol 😂😂😂
As reliable as they are on the ground, you want to try and get this up in the air????
Exactly what I was thinking. Neighbor bought a brand new bagger last summer, he's been left stranded on long rides three times. Twice engine issues third time his shifter lever just completely broke off. For a 30k bike that's unacceptable.
Buy a Harley buy the best. Fly a mile and fall the rest.
Now you can wake up the neighborhood with an early-morning flyby instead of an early morning drive-by!😂
Would this be considered a hard tail ? 😆
Imagine the oil leak on this bobber.
Wait, that's "Wrong Way Corigan!"
Maybe he'll get off the island!😳😜
He'd be lucky if that thing could even do a drive-by, but it definitely would wake everyone up once started.
Put some rotary blades on the bottom, and use it to mow the lawn.
That looked like a very short drive- by to me.
Great job I like it looks like it'd be a lot of fun just a taxi around and👍
The way you swung the prop scared the crap outta me! 😮
That actually looks like a Mini Max airframe! My father had two engines in his shop trailer... one mid-2000s Harley, and a 2013 Rotax. He wanted to build two airplanes with me once he got moved down here from Alaska... one for him, and one for me. He died 5 months after getting here, and earlier this year I took a trip down to New Mexico to see the extended family. One of the airframes was there.... 😢. It was seriously hard to stand there and look at that, and realize I have no way to finish it.
Seriously though... this is a real aircraft, and it's no more risky to build an EAA compliant aircraft with a Harley engine than it is to use a VW engine... and VWs have been powering experimental aircraft for about 80 years. Harleys are ligh enough to put on an ultralight, and that's what this is... a MiniMax ultralight.
They are light enough for a Minimax ultralight? No, they are not.
This isn't a MiniMax. This plane was designed and built by Wilson Miller, from Oneida, NY circa 1927 while he was in high school.
@@coldsamon thanks! I wasn't sure.
Yeah I really hope you get to have an airplane with a Harley-Davidson engine
Lots of people love Harley-Davidson engines
I fondly remeber the day I soloed in a Cessna 150 at the age of 19 in 1973 after only 8 hours instruction at Mayport Naval Flying Club. What a wonderful time it would be to fly this plane.
I soloed in a152 at 21 in 1977.
@Rick-or2kq your both wild asses
Really? You could've just said that, without your flight history?
I fondly remember how to spell remember!
@@robertstrohlin6051really gotta criticize him bc of a typo
Kinda reminds me of getting that first used mini bike. SO exciting & fun, until it cuts out. Then you finally get it running, and take off! ... When the throttle sticks open & the brakes fail..... .. Even get airborne... for a time...
I befriended a man who was about 90 years old and he was well known in our community for building planes. One time I was talking to him and asked him if he had a pilot's license. he said hell no, I've been building planes before you could purchase them and when you could buy them they were sold at a dollar a pound. his name was hezzy and he had the coolest airplanes in his garage built out of all kinds of things like this one. he had the mignot flying flea, the parasol and a bunch of custom planes he had built out a scraps from his farm and he flew these all the time it was so cool to see
Safest design ever, so long as it never leaves the ground 😃
Just remove the wings, and it's somewhat safe.
You have to remove the prop.
Wilson Miller, from Oneida, NY designed and built this in circa 1927. The original engine was replaced with a 1928 Harley-Davidson. It's initial flight was summer 1927.
Did he put magnetos on it?
Thank you for speaking up. We all love learning.
And how do you know this Sir?
I'm sure I'm not the only person to remember the old T-SHIRT that mentioned this. Good stuff, lol!
Those daring young men in their flying machines. Lol. That helmet though!….HIKE!
Hope you've got a friend with a Truck and a ramp following you.
Did you mean a broom and a dustpan?
Make that a truck and a hurse....that Harley powered weedhopper is nothing more than a flying casket if it ever acheives lift off
@@Divatasterhorse?
@@feellucky271 😂😅
@@raylrodr Whorse?
And that’s how you become a one armed bandit.
First thing I thought was at will shake an airplane apart . Next thought it would be better to use it as a soil compactor .
I'm building one with 10 weedeaters motors and things are looking great and coming together with my JB weld and gorilla glue ..
Can't wait to see my wife take her up for the very first time this weekend and I hope to get it all on video ...
At 10 years old my go-kart cruised downhill via gravity around 15 mph at 0 rpm's! Kinda sounded like a Honda Goldwing. 😂
Beautiful flite! Your take off and landing skillfully executed. Harley moto great for drones. Not good if you want airborne. That is a very cool plane. I want to see you fly it.
DUDE! Damn y’all get to play with the best, craziest stuff around! Now THAT plane setup oughta’ve woken ANY sleep left in you, for the foreseeable future 😳‼️😂 I could imagine that being three HD’s grafted together for somewhat of a better radial engine, per smoothness in performance, if such a thing could ever be associated with an HD!
The airplane looks very similar to a Mini Max. Should fly great as long as that motor keeps turning that propeller fast enough. I would climb right over the airfield and practice dead stick engine out landings. Not a matter of if that motor will quit it’s a matter of when it will quit.
Gee I wish I could get as excited during a walking pace taxi run. I feel bad. Maybe special needs person. Notice “dad” never let go or was pushing it along. Wonderful father
That s some cool stuff, I’d be a lil worried about actually flying but who knows. 👍
I find small plane like this ww1 size the most fun planes, simple, obv. small and slow to cruise around, even at very low level
well it had already flown once, by the highschool kid that built it. was one of my favorite pieces while i was working there. always wanted to fly it myself.
I reckon that baby is ready to go. Nice powerful engine sound.
Would have loved to have seen you actually take flight in it
The faa would have some feelings about that
@mattsabeast5
Screw the faa.
They're too busy making up laws they then enforce on toy drone operators.
Not to keep the people safe, but to ensure tyrants are the only ones with the ability to fly a camera over police barricades or over property of corporations getting footage of said corporation illegally dumping waste into water systems.
Those were the 2 events that made gov decide to regulate the hobby.
@@mattsabeast5 just a quick up and down make sure it flies why you got to hate on everybody's parade they're out in the country they wouldn't go any higher than to 300 ft your just trying to be a party pooper man
@@coyster530 no I'm just being realistic. I get it man I'm 35 I've been skirting the law my whole life. But your on a platform full of kids, kids with dads that don't teach them better, kids that will immediately mimic and improve this to be electric and made of carbon fiber because they aren't supervised and have the resources. The world has changed and it's really easy for a young man's life to be ruined because they see us old farts talking about our youth while we play with our adult toys.
That Thing flies like a Harley drives.
I've seen that plane hanging up in the museum.
I think it's awesome he got is started and taxi tested it.
Off to fight the Red Baron. Harley style!
To cut the grass the blade is usually on the bottom. To bad Harley got into lawnmowers.
Better take your tools along with you
Parachute 😂❤
rumor has it he's still trying to taxi!!😳
Just for reference. The Wright bros. flew on a 12 hp engine.
Their plane was practically a glider. This monowing needs a lot more speed and at least double the power it currently has.
They also required the winds off the Atlantic & a catapault launch for sustained flights. It took until 1905 for a real self-propelled aircraft engine design of theirs.
@@MadMarkythe ultralight section generally prefers Subaru EA82 engines which produce between 88hp and 97 hp. They're considered the "best cheap engine" for kit planes that fit within the ultralight category requirements of the FAA. There's no way an old V-twin would ever work.
But it was not a harley engine
Yeah but it ran and stayed running. 😊
It looks like something Louis Bleriot would concoct in 1910.
I also thought their creation looks like a Bleriot...
Winston Miller, 1927, I believe.
That has got to be the coolest damn airplane ever!
So cool it never flew.
@@dhss333 it did back when it was made in the 1920s, there are pictures of it
I'd love to have something like this. One of the fields on my farm is long & level enough to take off/land small aircraft. I'd def fly this thing around the farm
Finally, a Harley engine with proper cooling.
You better be very careful starting the engine like that. I had a friend of mine named Teddy do that too and it ended up chopping him up into hamburger. We all celebrated his life and honored him and made Teddy burgers for supper😮
There was a lot of cheering. Did I miss something?
Thank goodness for blokes like this. Means I don’t have to do it. 🇦🇺👍🍺🍺
That sounds about right. The Harley dies before it gets of the ground! 😅😅😅😊
Fly it
I remember seeing that machine or one like it on display. So awesome that you got it running! From the days of the greatest generation! ❤
Everybody talking smack on the H-D, I've never seen an Indian motor mounted to an airplane or heard of one either. Motorcycle engines were used because they were light, reasonably cheap and produced enough power to get the thing off the ground. Les Long in Oregon built a series of lightplanes and designed a horizontal opposed engine using H-D cylinders and other parts on his own design crankcase. Ford model T and model A engines have been used along with the flathead V-8 in a certified factory airplane. There have been others over the years, even now.
I would trust the plane with a Harley engine. I'd just have a parachute at the ready in case it wants to be a clunker in the air and stall on me. If all the flaps are functioning and have good support, I say it is flight-ready!
What are you woo-hooing about? You didn't even get fast enough to get the tail up!
Yep
No cojones involved
I'd put money on it being airworthy.
@@DetroitMicroSound Really now! 🙄
@@manuwilson4695 It's very obviously a real aircraft. My advice to the museum, would be to get an expert on aircraft of the day, and have them go through everything, and give them an idea of it's actual airworthiness.
@Detroit Micro Sound Want my advice?...deactivate the silly underpowered motor and put the "aircraft" in a school playground, for kids,and pretend pilots!
I want one of them helmets
Yeah man! 30s Football helmet.
That dude was like "thank God this damn thing didn't actually take to the air!"
Check your control surface free and clear make sure your engine develops full power go find a clear Runway give it full gas go back on the stick and go fly
that thing is cool but he is got no way to got judge full power or anything he's got no gauges and it's a hundred and some years old that thing is so awesome I remember watching this video
@@feellucky271Instruments? We don't need no stinking instruments. Fly it like an ultra light! Ha haaaa.🤩
up up and away
That's called "a run up".
Just sayin'...
@@rooms1028 Yeup, I did those soloing s c-152, run up , right mag check. Left check carb heat , suction control surface check etc..
In 1903 the wright brothers wrote to Harley Davidson and ask to use their engines to power their airplane. Harley passed on the deal. 😱
Sounds like they were looking for a free donation?
Otherwise, why bother asking? Just buy one and use it!
Glenn Curtiss offered an engine to yhe Wright Brothers, but when he started asking them questions about the wings ,they declined his offer . The Wright Brothers were a joke !
Wooo....the engine works. You moved 15 feet. Hoo-fvcking-rah.
Now actually fly it like an airplane. See how well that engine really works.
Scared the crap out of him? He didn’t do anything. The Wright Brothers went further on their first flight for Pete’s sake!
Harley engine on a plane no thanks
Put a 131 engine on it and try again. Might get off the ground
the guy actually flew it over 100 years ago I think it was.
EL Bruto 120 in. As an experimental no license requirement
If it's in the USA yes you need a minimum of a sport pilot certificate if it's over 254 lbs & a few other requirements.
It's an ultralight if it's 254 pounds or less & there is basically no rules.
The fact that I hear the little clinks like in Rise of Flight was scaring me.
He moved it 15 feet, wow! the man is a certified fearless daredevil! mowing a lawn is 10 times more dangerous than that!
I talked to you about this aircraft while there at the museum and I forgot to ask if it had ever been flown. I made the comment it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission 😂
I have used that expression for many years of my life and it's got me into a lot of trouble, but I love it
Hay carl you see that loud drone flying up there is that a mannequin.
Wrong propping techniques
Asking for a missing hand or arm
unknown appendages😂
bad idea. there's some extremely important differences with airplane engines that allow them to run upside down or tilted to the side. this engine is a four stroke with standard carburetor and the first time it flies it will crash because the engine will stall when it tips at more than a 35% angle.
1 notch barely above those "African Villagers Celebrate their Airplane Build of Bedframes" routines !
Is that a Flathead engine?
Unbelievable Matt, you are crazy man. I remember seeing this episode. Great stuff my friend thanks Wheel's for sharing 🤙
Good thing you were wearing a helmet
Well I for one don't believe that the thing could actually fly. None of it looked airworthy. I didn't even see if it had controls on the flaps
I also would like to know if that style plane was flown.
it's a kite with an engine. have you ever seen the Wright's original kitty hawk plane? it was even more primitive.
@jessestreet2549 if I flew that thing the turbo boost would be me crapping myself out of fear.
@@joemulholland3378 guessing the wings and fuselage are skinned with doped cloth nearly a hundred years old.
i doubt it would get very high.
personally i would be too terrified to crap.
I want to say that's similar to one of the first monoplanes from France.
On a side note, that's about as fast as I would want to go in a HD powered airplane...
the guy that designed and built it by hand but I don't know what plans it came from and the wings are skin coated with dope
one of the coolest things ever
Y ??
If I'm gonna fly an airplane, I want one where the propeller works all the time.
Doing a Prop Spin like that is asking for trouble
I would love to know if that could get off the ground. Looks totally homemade. Probably not enough power? But I don't know planes.
that would be nega I hope you joking
Years ago, I saw a documentary were some old retired engineer built an all metal plane that he barely fit into, it sort of resembled a miniature spitfire. It was powered by a 22 horsepower Briggs and Stratton V twin. The plane did 120 miles an hout
It did fly roughly 100 years ago. Just needs checking over before it flies again.
I'd bet it's completely airworthy.
Look like an aviation pioneer
I wouldn't even trust a _new_ Harley engine to take me to the shops and back...your faith could move mountains!
Anything is sketchy when Harley Davidson is involved.
😳👍🚀
Greased the landing! Not bad for the first flight
harley guys and pilots competing to see who can be in control of the loudest vehicle possible
As an AMT, I cringed at the first second. NEVER hand prop an engine with two hand and leaning into the prop arc. ALWAYS use one hand and position yourself to where you will not fall into the path of the rotating blades. Cool creation and thought, just BE CAREFUL!!
Must’ve scared the crap out of the copilot because he bailed
Had a helmet just like that as a freshmen RB on the football team in 1958. Trust me on this, you need better protection than that lol. True story.
I'm thinking same thing, but maybe better helmet! I was thinking of milling 3 sets of Harley motors together for a "6" cylinder on airplane!
That scared you?
Wait until you get that bad boy up in the air!
Old Pap's even looked nervous on the ground.