Thanks Dan. I will be honest I may have started a CD a few years ago but one thing stopped me. I saw some photo's of a pilot sitting in the plane from the front side view. It appeared that if he looked left or right he would have looked right into the wing roots. Not sure if this is true or not. Is that the problem with the visibility?

I was kidding about the book and appreciate your posts.

Your comment about the designing of ultralight sailplanes is interesting.

I am going to put this out there for consideration from any one. I would love to help in any way on the design of a new ultralight sailplane. Perhaps building a prototype or scale model of.

I am not an aeronautical engineer but love to do backyard engineering.
I have 2 united states patents with my name on them and 4 decades of designing and flying model aircraft.

Here is a link to a 1/2 scale model I am designing and building now.

www.flyinggiants.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57469

and a Christmas Joke of my plane.



I would love to see a plane that could be homebuilt in the catagory of the Carbon Dragon. The Swiss Archaeopteryx would be my goal.

I know this is not an open forum on designing but for the Carbon Dragon. Please forgive my intrusion.

Congrats on still flying Dan. Your recent flight I bet stays in your mind for a long time.

Karl

--- In This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., "Jan & Dan Armstrong" wrote:
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> Karl,
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> I flew the Carbon Dragon about 30 flights, mostly short patterns, but
> several nice soaring flights. I loved the way it climbed and handled. The
> visibility was relatively poor and since it climbed so well, I was always
> climbing up to people that I could not see. My flights were either test
> flights or demonstration flights. It was Jim's glider, so I was very
> careful not to damage it. Gary Osoba, Steve Arndt and others have far more
> extensive experience flying the CD.
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> I fly sailplanes and hang gliders. I flew a 7 mile XC in my Falcon 3 hang
> glider on Sunday from a powered winch tow in very weak conditions. I also
> fly a 15m racer and share a SGU 2-22EK with others.
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> I work more than full time as an aircraft design engineer, so there is not
> much time to write a book. I would much rather work on a future for
> ultralight sailplanes.
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> Regards,
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> Dan