Hello there, My name is Piotr and I am aerospace engineer living in Poland and… still dreaming about building my own airplane. I am very impressed your work, but have some questions regarding to material change from wood to aluminum, as original Aircamper was made of wood. Have you performed analyses how to switch from wood to aluminum, I mean parts sizing from stress and weight point of view and fastening method as well? Have you redrawn original plans to implement modifications you incorporated? And the last one, maybe most important - how you turned on green light in your aviation authority office to your modifications ;) I am very interested in this matter as Aircamper looks good, flies good, but it has only one disadvantage - it is made of wood, which is not good in humid climate. Many thanks! Piotr
Hello Piotr, -In the orginal Plans there is still a Steelfuselage Blueprint, Landinggear and Controlsystem Blueprint out of Metal. -This are just Material changes not modefications of the plans, only with stronger Material than Wood. The only importend reason is the strenght of the Material the wight. I used a Autodesk Nastran In-CAD Programm to simulate the strongness of each part, to a minimum of wheight. I hope I have answered some of your questions. Dash21
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Hope to see it when your done with it . The videos you had making everything were great and can wait to see your finished work .
Hello there,
My name is Piotr and I am aerospace engineer living in Poland and… still dreaming about building my own airplane. I am very impressed your work, but have some questions regarding to material change from wood to aluminum, as original Aircamper was made of wood. Have you performed analyses how to switch from wood to aluminum, I mean parts sizing from stress and weight point of view and fastening method as well? Have you redrawn original plans to implement modifications you incorporated? And the last one, maybe most important - how you turned on green light in your aviation authority office to your modifications ;) I am very interested in this matter as Aircamper looks good, flies good, but it has only one disadvantage - it is made of wood, which is not good in humid climate.
Many thanks!
Piotr
Hello Piotr,
-In the orginal Plans there is still a Steelfuselage Blueprint, Landinggear and Controlsystem Blueprint out of Metal.
-This are just Material changes not modefications of the plans, only with stronger Material than Wood. The only importend reason is the strenght of the Material the wight. I used a Autodesk Nastran In-CAD Programm to simulate the strongness of each part, to a minimum of wheight.
I hope I have answered some of your questions.
Dash21
@@Dash21 Thank you!
Can I ask what was your total cost to build this ? What was the cost just for that book you showed first ?
The Cost of the Blueprints are as an Link in the Video description. I haven,t got now the total cost of that Airplane... mayby later when it's finish.
Nice looking building book. Where can I get one?
In the Video-Description is a link to the Blueprints. When you buy one, you'll get that Book and original Blueprints in 1:1 from that Aircraft.