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    Default Re: Is this "the ultimate homebuilt"??

    I fixed the link to the article for you, Paul.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jrevens View Post
    My friend Scott Christiansen in South Dakota built a beautiful example of an Ellipse. He's had it at Oshkosh the last 2 or 3 years. I believe that there are only 3 or 4 of them in existence.
    I remember well when Dean talked about building the Ellipse. He said he was going to build a 4 seat airplane that you could fold the wings on like an Avid, trailering it to and from the airport with just a hitch that attaches to the tail, and it was going to haul 1000 lbs for 1000 miles at 150 mph, climb at 1000 fpm, all on a 150 hp lycoming with a fixed pitch prop. Sounded like a tall order to me, but lo and behold, about a year after talking about it, his prototype Ellipse proved it was possible.

    That airplane looks pretty common and conventional at first glance. But the closer you look at it, the more innovative and uncommon it is. I think it is just a beautiful, and incredible design. It's just too bad there aren't more around.

    For any of you that missed the earlier link on the Ellipse, here's an excellent article on it

    http://www.airbum.com/pireps/PirepEllipse.html

    It's an interesting read.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Av8r3400 View Post
    I fixed the link to the article for you, Paul.
    Thanks man. Working from an android notebook, so sometimes my fingerscdo funny things with the copy and paste feature.

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    thanks paul for the wilson and explorer stories . i was able to locate the pictures that i was able to take that morning . in the pics it does appear that the spoilers are deployed .
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    Those are great pictures.

    And yes, it shows well those dreaded spoilers being engaged. I heard Explorer 2 had the spoilers on it too, but to avoid having a problem like Explorer 1 had they made it so you couldn't move the throttle ahead without first disengaging the spoilers.

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    Spruce Goose 2?

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