Hi, I’m Paul and I’m new to the group. I’m looking for a sailplane or motorglider to build. I’ve built several boats over the years and am well versed in glass/carbon fiber as well as wood construction. This will be my first plane. I am dieting and needed an incentive to keep on track. I’m 55 now, learned to fly as a teenager but haven’t flown in many years because I don’t think I would pass a third class medical.


I have seen two different offerings on eBay for Carbon Dragon plans. One is all PDFs for $50 and the other is JPGs for $7.99.

I know from having built boats from plans I received as files that only PDFs can be easily converted back to accurate scale drawings. I also receive some boat plans in AutoCAD formats and those are great if I want to send them to a blueprint printer but FedEx is much closer and they can’t handle CAD files so I use turbo CAD to change the plans to full scale PDFs and take them up to be printed.

Has anyone built a Carbon Dragon from either one of the CDs and are they complete, with things like the builder’s manual and other ancillary documents?

I’ve been reading posts here trying to get a feel for the task I want to undertake.

Paul