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Me, I'm the grandma/pa type, I try to help young people from falling into the same potholes I have. I try to be up beat and see the good things in life, they say you'll live longer that way... It must be working I'm still here. So yeah I'm an older furs, as in a crown. But I'm still going on 16 to 25 when it comes to the heart. Just because your body is growing older doesn't mean you have to. That's one of the reasons I still act like a kid much of the time. When needed I deal with adult issues as an adult, if I don't need to be an adult why act like one? When you greet each day with a child's eyes you see little things with wonder and amazement. Really, isn't that what life is really all about?
I had a housemate back in 1991 that was really into the fandom. Wolfy gave a name to something I had enjoyed for years but didn't know what it was called. Some of the artwork and stories struck a cord with me, but it was on again, off again, over the years as life got in the way.
I've been having fun writing for a few years now. I'm thankful for a computer that helps me assemble my stories. I hated English in school, part of that was because of being dyslexic and shaky muscle control of my hands when it came to writing. I have to thank Chakat's Den for getting me back into reading and the furry fandom again. I would say I've been a furry most of my life but I didn't know what it was called, it's just a small part of who I am.
Bright Blessings femm
I had a housemate back in 1991 that was really into the fandom. Wolfy gave a name to something I had enjoyed for years but didn't know what it was called. Some of the artwork and stories struck a cord with me, but it was on again, off again, over the years as life got in the way.
I've been having fun writing for a few years now. I'm thankful for a computer that helps me assemble my stories. I hated English in school, part of that was because of being dyslexic and shaky muscle control of my hands when it came to writing. I have to thank Chakat's Den for getting me back into reading and the furry fandom again. I would say I've been a furry most of my life but I didn't know what it was called, it's just a small part of who I am.
Bright Blessings femm
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Low profile... lately.
a month ago
I've been keeping a low profile for a while now... my back has been giving me fits. Laying wrong in bed at night then in the morning I can barely get out of bed is not a lot of fun. My doctor has been zero help. It really kills the creative mood and process, I know others dealing with the same issue... it slows things down a lot as we know but it doesn't stop the process.
I've been doing a little writing, some aircraft sketches and number crunching. It really comes down to what do I want out of my aircraft design. It looks like my design will be about the size of a Piper Cub. That being a 35 foot wing span and 20ish feet long.
To get good short field performance it takes big horsepower and lots of lift at low speeds.
How do you get good short field performance with lower horsepower? The simplest is wing area. From there you can get into complex systems that let you need less wing area but add weight. Mike Pati's Scrappy is one example of being complex.
I'm looking at simple and straightforward Hershey bar wings with a Fowler style flaps. Also in the mix is what airfoil to use? Well the NACA airfoils are off the table because they were never intended to be used on aircraft. They were and are only test specimens and NOT fully developed airfoils for aircraft use. It doesn't help matters that NACAs idea of a light aircraft is a craft with a gross weight of 12,000 pounds.
Harry Riblett took the next step with a few of the NACA airfoils to correct their deficiencies and make them suitable for light aircraft like I'm working on. Using one of his laminar airfoils I can get the lift needed with less drag of a turbulent airfoil. Meaning a bit more speed at cruise speed on the same fuel burn... with 175 square feet of wing area you want cut the drag where you can.
The projected stall speed clean is 39 mph and 29 mph with flaps. When it comes to cruise speed that's more a matter of how much fuel do you want to use an hour. Econo cruise looks to be 95ish mph on under four U.S. gallons an hour. This is also very dependant on the engine used and it's specific fuel consumption per horsepower.
The Aero Momentum engines I'm looking at have a .39 pounds of fuel per horsepower hour at 55 to 60% power. So the numbers say my design should cruise 97 mph at the power setting of 60 horsepower. As we all know your results may vary, but the numbers look good to me.
The fuselage will be Paper Glass, the wings will be aluminum sheet spars and ribs with fabric cover. The flaps and ailerons may be of composite materials for simplicity of manufacture.
Now I need a larger drafting board, my 3A board is just to small for the scale I'm working at on the wings and fuselage... something like a 2A would be sweet.
Blessing all be safe out there.
I've been doing a little writing, some aircraft sketches and number crunching. It really comes down to what do I want out of my aircraft design. It looks like my design will be about the size of a Piper Cub. That being a 35 foot wing span and 20ish feet long.
To get good short field performance it takes big horsepower and lots of lift at low speeds.
How do you get good short field performance with lower horsepower? The simplest is wing area. From there you can get into complex systems that let you need less wing area but add weight. Mike Pati's Scrappy is one example of being complex.
I'm looking at simple and straightforward Hershey bar wings with a Fowler style flaps. Also in the mix is what airfoil to use? Well the NACA airfoils are off the table because they were never intended to be used on aircraft. They were and are only test specimens and NOT fully developed airfoils for aircraft use. It doesn't help matters that NACAs idea of a light aircraft is a craft with a gross weight of 12,000 pounds.
Harry Riblett took the next step with a few of the NACA airfoils to correct their deficiencies and make them suitable for light aircraft like I'm working on. Using one of his laminar airfoils I can get the lift needed with less drag of a turbulent airfoil. Meaning a bit more speed at cruise speed on the same fuel burn... with 175 square feet of wing area you want cut the drag where you can.
The projected stall speed clean is 39 mph and 29 mph with flaps. When it comes to cruise speed that's more a matter of how much fuel do you want to use an hour. Econo cruise looks to be 95ish mph on under four U.S. gallons an hour. This is also very dependant on the engine used and it's specific fuel consumption per horsepower.
The Aero Momentum engines I'm looking at have a .39 pounds of fuel per horsepower hour at 55 to 60% power. So the numbers say my design should cruise 97 mph at the power setting of 60 horsepower. As we all know your results may vary, but the numbers look good to me.
The fuselage will be Paper Glass, the wings will be aluminum sheet spars and ribs with fabric cover. The flaps and ailerons may be of composite materials for simplicity of manufacture.
Now I need a larger drafting board, my 3A board is just to small for the scale I'm working at on the wings and fuselage... something like a 2A would be sweet.
Blessing all be safe out there.
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Jazz, easy on the ears
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Big cats. Wolves, Malamutes
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Goddest I love it when a plan comes together!
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Yeah, true. I'm noticing the more "mainstream" it becomes, the more its having issues.
In essence I see many smaller communities inside of one at this point, more like a society than a fandom.
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