HOW IT'S MADE 

I came here via looking for tips on how to make a kayak mold now I feel more than qualified to build a racing plane. I just need to watch a few vids on Building engines.

Thank you for the information you provided on Mr. Mike. He is a TRUE inspiration!

I've made a point of visiting the Hiller museum, twice now in fact, to look at the AR-5. It's in an annoying place, suspended from the ceiling above the mezzanine so you get a sore neck when trying to look at it up close. Anyway, the thing is beautifully built and a real honour to see it in person. These videos are very interesting and quite inspirational. The AR-6 was damaged in a ground accident at Reno. Hopefully it'll be rebuilt.

Definitely, the videos are entertaining whether or not you have an interest in making a fibreglass plane

Except the mossie was made on a mold

oops Wonderful work! I want to do a youtube, but am having difficulty in finding how.

He certainly does! The menacing Anton Chigurh ... don't ever let him ever start flipping coins for you ...

It's not rc

No, other than it's a heavy method of construction. (V.s. wood and fabric, or aluminum, presumably). The entire airplane, fuel, and pilot weighed in under 300kg or 661Lb for it's FAI speed record setting flight in it's weight category. So we can assume it weighed less than 500lb, probably under 480lb empty, including motor, That's with aproximatly 54 sqft wing area. Most Rutan Designs, if you subtract the engine weight, weight about 6-7lb per sq ft basic structure weight. Except the Solitaire and Quickie Q1 were both 3.3lb/Ft^2 without motors, by my calculations. Smaller is better for this foam core method as the volume of foam goes up to the square of wing area, and foam still weighs almost 2lb per Ft^3.

Reminds me of John Britten, the carbon composite motorcycle fabricator also died of cancer fairly young...i hope its only a coinsident.. not because of epoxy fumes.

On the other hand, you have Burt Rutan, he is over 70ty and still going strong....Sometimes illness may be because of overworking..who knows.

@@planpitz4190 Its Exposure To Ionizing Radiation Exposure To Ionizing Radiation Cancer every time

@@FixItStupid Lol except all sorts of compounds and elements that don’t emit ionizing radiation are carcinogenic. Ionizing radiation is just one of many many things that can create cancerous cells.

@@JohnMaxGriffin the human body generates cancer cells beginning pretty early, in your 20s and 30s. But the immune system destroys them, until it doesn't. It might be due to other issue, or the cancer out smarted (by trial and error or plain old evolution). If a human lives long enough due to good fortune, you will always die of cancer eventually. Its the nature of cell generation, and therefore its the nature of life itself.

As far as I know it's just a nickname/brand name in the US for commercially available polyester resin car body filler.

Old School Is The Best School.

Ya so you just see something you like and push a button and a cnc machine makes it for you? What total horseshit. Cnc is a skillset, and a complex one at that.

boogymcguiness If they could be on RU-vid, I'm sure some woodworker of old would comment something like "darn young punks, hotwiring and fiberglassing everything, can't make a proper compound curve with plywood". Live with your time folks...

Boom job is done, ha ha ha ha

True but everything was a closed shop back then - you had to know a man to get in anywhere. Not sure if that's good or bad actually

Not epoxy. Styrene based resin will eat foam

Polyester does not attack epoxy. Epoxy is impervious to most things. He probably used it because it cures very quickly, like 30 min vs 12 hrs

@@sblack48 sands better too

Epoxy allergies: epoxy hardener causes many of the allergies you'd expect from epoxy. You can neutralize it by rinsing-off with “white vinegar”, which changes the chemical structure to a water-soluble compound; then cleanse your skin by washing with warm soap and water. The two prime sources for allergies come from the powder found in some gloves, and from the "latex" gloves themselves.

Ill add, the Amine Blush that forms can also be eliminated by laying down "Peel Ply" whether while vacuum bagging (as always) or even for open wet layup as Mike is performing here, by rolling out a layer of peel ply at 58:20 you don't have to worry about starving the laminate as he discusses, because there is a sacrificial layer holding resin left over it. PP is known to help reduce part weight by improving fiber fraction, as it also absorbs excess epoxy when its squeegeed or vacuumed down, then it removes the excess epoxy when its peeled off the surface. The world might have moved on in technology, but classic "NONA" open wet layup over foam core is the simplest way to make any epoxy composite parts for the home DIYer. Although heavy, its probably half the work and half price of even a basic vacuum bagging operation. No, Mike probably wasn't the first one wetting out of BID tape before application. He might have been the first to use two sheets of clear plastic and a squeegee to do it, maybe. But many process inventions are independently created by people working on the same sort of projects in isolation, so he could believe he invented said process.

Read the credits,Doofus !!!!!!

Emkay 4Q2 if you want to know how to build some amazing airplanes, keep watching. If not, see ya...