The Wide Body Mod for an Avid Flyer or Kitfox
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Here is how I widened the Avid Flyer fuselage by 3 inches from 39in to 42in. Plus a first look at some forged carbon fiber parts I'm making in a 3D printed mold.
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Great job, I might have to widen out my Model C Avid. I'm gonna follow your upgrades..
Thanks! Let know how it goes. If you have any other ideas, please let me know!
pretty cool
Thanks!
If I can give advice I'd say to do a total different door latch design. I had an emergency that ended in a crash and we ended up in the river. Suddenly you realize a lot of mistakes in the design. On the pilot side the rudder cable ended up on top of the door latch which prevented opening the door in a hurry. My wife, navigator, could not reach the door latch before losing her seat belt which was a struggle in that small cockpit under water. Move your door latch up, midway in the door where you can reach it easy. It seems easy at the bottom until things go wrong.
Martin, thanks for the advice here, that's a great point. I hadn't thought about the rudder cable looping over the handle. So definitely something to consider. One reason I designed this way is so that if you need to get out in a hurry, it'd be a quick push of the wide part forward. I even thought to add the words" Push to exit" or something to that effect. My concern with the middle of the door is the complexity to the latching mechanism, this can create other areas that can be bent or bind in a tough situation, then your handle may not be effective at all. In either case I appreciate it and will take it into consideration.
Oh crap Im suppose to sent you some parts whoops Ill try to make that happen soon
No worries!