Ross , love your videos , May be buying a Rans S 10 Sacota, would like some pointers ... by the way was at the Wall concert in NYC , still have the concert Ticket stub and concert T shirt ....lol...
Yes little ailerons rather than wing warping,and btw,it's an EII not an EIII and yet it has a high 'shoulder' placement wing position like the early E1 prototypes😉👍🏻
Ross. Looks superb! A mate and I are planning to build the AA Eindecker EIII in Aus. The Rotax 503 isn’t manufactured any longer so I’d be interested in your thoughts on alternative engines and any other advice. Martin
There are a few in the US and UK which are powered by the valley engineering Big Twin. It’s a little heavier than the Rotax and not as powerful but is easier on gas and being a four stroke, the sound suits it better. They are a very lightly built aircraft, if you find parts of the design you don’t like I suggest you beef it up a bit. We did this in quite a few places on ours. Also, when it came to final assembly we found our aircraft was really nose heavy, I suggest you make allowance for adding lead weights if required to the rear fuselage, if you install an electrical system install the batter as far back as practical to try and even out the weight distribution.
@@rossbrodie8280 our EIII arrived in Aus last week. We have a Rotax 582 on order and we’re currently going thru the manuals. Any advice on building the EIII ? You’re in NZ right?
I’d be happy to buy and build any one of their planes, except I want full size. The Fokker D1 triplane is nice but I’d rather not contribute to the Red Baron spam
@@parrotraiser6541 Oh well, "I" probably wouldn't fit in swimming trunks. I looked at this, if not a similar design, many years back. Even when I was much lighter, I could sit in it, or have fuel, but not both. Fun Ultralight idea, though.
Clint Smith this one is in the New Zealand Microlight Category which is quite different to the American ultralight or LSA. If it were in the US I think it can be registered as either, have a look at the Airdrome Aeroplanes website for more information
I saw something where you said the E III Eindecker replica would dive toward the ground if you released the stick. Sounds very unstable to me. Is this true? Thanks.
I’m not too sure of the cost since the project was already started when I got to it. I suggest getting in touch with Robert Baslee from Airdrome Aeroplanes.
I was listening to Run Like Hell recently I was at a hangar plane spotting and I thought it fit super well with the atmosphere. Then I saw the movie scene and now it doesn’t fit so much, but apparently I wasn’t the only one to think it fit well to flying initially.
My one and only suggestion (and it’s a PF fan choice); same vid (original I adore!!), put Division Bell’s “ Learning to fly” so I can dream absolutely proper!?😉
I saw somewhere that you said the Eindecker would dive to the ground if you let go of the stick. Is that right? Sounds unstable. I'm thinking of building one from Aerodrome Aeroplanes so I wanted to hear what you had to say about it. Thanks.
The horizontal stabilizer on the Eindekker was fully movable and hinged centrally with no fixed surfaces. If the pilot released the stick it had a tendency to snap fully up or fully down with disastrous consequences. It was an unstable little beast, but pilots mastered it all the same.
Thanks, it is a lot of fun! The reason I added music was because you can’t hear the engine on the GoPro microphone, all you would hear is wind noise which I find pretty irritating
You would be deafened by the original audio, you can’t hear the engine at all. Unless you like the sound screeching wind noise you would have muted it anyway
