Online Barnstormer: Icarus V VTOL Drone Drawing #1

About me

EAA member #99884 and Young Eagle Pilot #04. Enjoyed volunteering for Young Eagles Chairmen Cliff Robertson, General Chuck Yeager and Harrison Ford. Won 3 awards at Oshkosh for Best-in-class 1946 Ercoupe and won First Place at the National Ercoupe Convention. I have flown classics, warbirds, and high performance airplanes, sail planes, Hangliders, Powered Hangliders and Ultralights. I started with a Rogallo hanglider in 1972. I became knowledgeable in electrical and mechanical processes, tolerances, safety, reliability and quality building and flying RC planes since grade school. I own a 1972 Jobe Rogallo Hanglider, Icarus V powered hanglider and owned 1946 Ercoupe(s). FOR HISTORIANS - Many famous people started out flying in an Ercoupe including John Travolta, Johnny Carson, Sam Walton and Pappy Boyington (Pappy's first GA airplane).

Sunday, January 14, 2018

Icarus V VTOL Drone Drawing #1

Using R/C Technology at first for proof of concept. First test flights will be at local AMA sanctioned model airplane field using RC propulsion system from a EFlite XVert VTOL electronics.

Electric motors with two large propellors wil be fixed on a one inch aluminum tube with wires going back to ESC, Reciever and LIPO bat(s) for propulsion. It is very easy integrate and experiment. The is no need for moving the motors to control Ultralight. VTOLs ob youtube will rotate the motors from take off to flying for high speeds. This aircraft only flys at 20MPH-25MPH and motors will only be used when I'm in it to gain altitude. Then I will glide down to land and use Motors to slow to land vertically so I won't have to run 18 MPH to land. I will land like a Helicopter or Quadcopter/Drone.

I visited John Moody in Milwakee and copied ideas from his Powered Icarus II and created a motor mount for a MAC 101 GoCart engine with a straight drive 24" propeller making my Icarus V a foot launched hang glider or Foot Launched Ultralight,predacessor the the Vintage Ultralights and Modern Day Microlights. Note: I started flying R/C models in 1964.