Group Project: Designing the RV-13

[rpellicciotti]

Originally Posted by Christopher Murphy

My RV-13 would be a Harmon Rocket 3 with retractable gear. It would have the same airfoil and wing plan form as the P-51. TIO-540 for power. You could use a set of GlassAir3 main gear or the gear off of a Piper Malibu. I would race it at reno. Hey you engineers, how fast would it go on 400 hp?

Now I have to go take a cold shower!

Something like this?

http://www.prowleraviation.com

[aerhed]

I WANT AN ELECTRIC AIRPLANE. GIMME MY ELECTRIC AIRPLANE! If someone doesn't get it right soon, I'm gonna do it myself. How hard can it be? You just need to think "spar battery" & "seat battery" & "floor batteries that can't burn". Who cares about configuration? It's all been done. Remember lancers? Flying bathtubs? Twin Navions? Or even worse, Twin bees. I know a guy was gonna build a twin RV4. He bought twin commie wings & his first move was to chop the spars. Then he decided he didn't quite know what he was doing, so he quit. If anyone wants a pair of short-spar twin comanche wings, I think I can get 'em cheap. He has a nice drawing called the Comanchero.

[B25Flyer]

This is really not about an RV-13, it is about what is your dream airplane.

I have thought alot about what my next sport airplane will be... I have a Baron for hauling the wife, but for my own personal chariot, I still see no viable replacement for the EVO Rocket.

There is alot of discussion about a retractable Rocket version, and it would be incredibly cool, but if an EVO Rocket goes any faster then the Wing area has to be reduced. It would be too fragile and ride too hard in the bumps.

Reduce the wing area to raise the stall speed, and then I gotta start asking myself if i want to fly it at night or over any kind of hostile terrain, day or night.....

I have said it before here, I really don't know where to go from an EVO Rocket. It pushes the single engine sport plane & X/C cruiser pretty close to the limits......

I will be interested to see if the Czechs bring the M1 to Oshkosh this year..... http://www.hpa-international.com/pdf/m1.pdf

I won't perform any better than the F1, but having room, and heat, for a passenger might get my wife in it..... I would sure miss sitting on the Centerline however.... The metal cowling on the prototype, while impressive, is pretty ugly....

Tailwinds,
Doug Rozendaal
F1 EVO

[RudiGreyling]

Originally Posted by Ironflight

Come come now folks...all this talk of high wing bush planes, twins, etc...from Vans?

Would you really expect Ferrari to design your next station wagon?!?

But what a station wagon it would be if Vans did it:
Vans Kit Pricing of +/- $20K vs sportman +/- $50K
Vans Reputation, and a all metal kit we RV'ers know how to build.

I agree with a 2+2 High wing 180-210HP bushlane!
I think it will really be popular!

Regards
Rudi

[glenn654]

I think my RV-13 would have to be a more refined, more powerful, faster, aerobatic, probably retract Super -7. Just think....300+ HP, super cruiser, higher aspect ratio wing......a higher end RV. Perhaps a Mercedes-Benz 500 SEL w/ wings....maybe not quite the price.

Glenn Wilkinson

[kevinh]

I just want the RV-11

[RichB]

Originally Posted by aerhed

I WANT AN ELECTRIC AIRPLANE. GIMME MY ELECTRIC AIRPLANE! If someone doesn't get it right soon, I'm gonna do it myself. How hard can it be? You just need to think "spar battery" & "seat battery" & "floor batteries that can't burn".

Sonex has demoed an electric Waiex.

I'd like to see either a faster 10, something akin to an aluminum Lancair IV, or a 4 seat cross-country motor-glider.

[flion]

How about an RV prop-jet?

[bswat]

How about a 6-seat RV? A cross between the space of a Cherokee 6/6X with the speed of a Bonzanza A36.

Bill Swatling
RV-7: getting back work on fuselage center section

[rzbill]

Well, we have certainly narrowed this down to something between a paraglider and an X-15!