Love your videos. My suggestion are for reduce weight and easier Manufactuing. Make only one tail boom under the propeller and use standard tee shape tail. This reduce weight and adds protection for the propeller. V shape tail for elevator and rudder create a flutter problem on control surfaces, which make controlling the plane in turns and just going straight. Fly a V-tail bonanza and will experience it. Bonanza V tail pilot always using ruddle pressure to stop the ruddle from fluttering.
Regarding your tail, do you really care if you have a little more drag during a maneuver? That could help keep you out of a stall or recover from one. Also, the only time you care about the drag is when cruising for mpg. So what you can do is put trim tabs on the vertical and horizontal surfaces, and then the main ailerons are never deflected during cruise. Also, there has to be more length in a rectangular tail than in what amounts to a circular tail, so I don’t buy the argument that the drag is less with a rectangular shape. What you say is only true during maneuver with that inverted V (circular) tail, and like I said, if you add little trim tabes to the vertices and horizontal parts, you will not engage the diagonal surface to loose anything (at least during cruise which is where it counts .
I agree; steer with the nose wheel, brakes on the mains. Interesting information on the disadvantages of inverted V tails.
Love your videos. My suggestion are for reduce weight and easier Manufactuing. Make only one tail boom under the propeller and use standard tee shape tail. This reduce weight and adds protection for the propeller. V shape tail for elevator and rudder create a flutter problem on control surfaces, which make controlling the plane in turns and just going straight. Fly a V-tail bonanza and will experience it. Bonanza V tail pilot always using ruddle pressure to stop the ruddle from fluttering.
The vertical surfaces on the tail seem quite small...
How about splitting the tail into two tails, like the Airtruk? Then you could be even further out of the prop wash and it could be still lower.
That is a possibility that I've considered. It could still happen.
Would a tilting prop be an option?
Tilting only for clearance issues. Not for vtol or maneuvering.
Regarding your tail, do you really care if you have a little more drag during a maneuver? That could help keep you out of a stall or recover from one. Also, the only time you care about the drag is when cruising for mpg. So what you can do is put trim tabs on the vertical and horizontal surfaces, and then the main ailerons are never deflected during cruise. Also, there has to be more length in a rectangular tail than in what amounts to a circular tail, so I don’t buy the argument that the drag is less with a rectangular shape. What you say is only true during maneuver with that inverted V (circular) tail, and like I said, if you add little trim tabes to the vertices and horizontal parts, you will not engage the diagonal surface to loose anything (at least during cruise which is where it counts .
Sadler Vampire ?
The Vampire definitely set the bar for a slick ultralight.
One was for sale recently on barnstormers.@@olsonspeed
The seat is way too upright. Do a semi reclining seat and cut frontal area by 50% or more, pod or no pod.