All About Light Sport Aircraft: RE: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group LSA Rule Question [7 Attachments]

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Alex,

My phone number is below. I just bought a Sonex with a Jab 3300. Haven't taken possession of it yet and when I do i have to get a few hours of dual in it to satisfy the insurance people. For now I will be based at the Oroville (KOVE) airport and eventually at Paradise (CA92), which is closer to where I live (Magalia). If you fly into Paradise I could pick you up. It's a private field, but I can get the OK for you to land there.

I'd love to talk blue sky projects as I have many and am always interested in what others are dreaming up.

I have attached some photos of a 1/4 scale model of the CCW project that is based on a Titan II. Also included one of a 3/4 scale P-39 mock-up that's hanging in my shop and one of my rolling test stand that has a variable ratio reduction unit driving the prop.

Vince Homer
(760) 375-4554
(626) 497-8735 (C)

To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
From: acensor@fastmail.fm
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 05:01:38 +0000
Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group LSA Rule Question

Send me your phone number as a private reply if you'd like to sometime meet face to face just for fun.
I'm a two hour flight in my LSA from Corning,
and very occassionally fly down there to get Brian (who is a VERY experienced Rotax and LSA guy) work on my plane.

Don't know if it's practical but I'd love to see a single engine driving counter rotating front and back props.
And a way to disingauge one prop for low fuel use cruising.
Also totally blue sky.

Interesting, that a private pilot can fly even a true multiengine EXPERIMENTAL without a multiengine rating, though.

Alex

--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, Vincent Homer <vhhomer@...> wrote:
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> Alex, Thanks for the reply. I used to work wirth Brian and live about 30 miles from his home aitport. I will have to stop by there and see the airplane. I have read some about it and it's quite a project. The reason for this inquiry is I am looking at a future project involving a Custer Channel wing aircraft using a Titan, or similar, fuselage as a start and single engine driving two props, one in each channel. Just blue sky at this point.
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> Vince Homer
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> (760) 375-4554
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> (626) 497-8735 (C)
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> To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
> From: acensor@...
> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 01:32:34 +0000
> Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group LSA Rule Question
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> Hi Vince,
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> See ---
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> http://www.electricmotorglider.com/index.html
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> "FAA regulations do not require a pilot to possess a multiengine rating when flying a single place [mulitengine] experimental aircraft. A multiengine rating would be required for the carriage of passengers."
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> In short, you could fly a two propeller _single_ engine two propeller experimental single seat aircraft with a sport pilot license as long as it complied with the rest of the LSA definition.
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> By the way, that link is a very interesting site about a two prop electric powered motor glider being developed currently by Brian Carpenter.
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> Alex
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> > From: Vince <vhhomer@>
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> > To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
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> > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 1:35 PM
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> > Subject: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group LSA Rule Question
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> > The LSA requirements state, "single engine and fixed pitch or ground adjustable propeller." Does the use of the singular term, "propeller," limit a builder to only one?
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> > Does anyone have an opinion, or better yet, an official ruling on the use of one engine and two propellers either in the contra-rotating or or separate configuration like the Wright Brothers Flyer?
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