Will This Weird Museum Airplane Run & Fly After Decades? 

Alberto Santos Dumont flew a canard known as '14 bis'.

My favorite example is the Rutan Long-EZ

That's the plan!

Just realised - that spout was maybe for long-term parking? Flip it down and evaporation/water ingress will be reduced. But Jimmy needs to leave it open to atmosphere when he's flying.

yep i bounced mine a couple times learning to fly it.

Torque a wooden prop every week and make sure the crush plates are designed for a wood prop.

@@buckmurdock2500 yeah, should be every 50 hours.

Hey Jimmy who should I contact to make an offer on the “peculiar plane”? I will send contact info if needed

That would be a cool buy, canards are really neat. One use to fly around the St. Augustine airport all the time when I was a kid. Think it had a VW engine in it if I remember correctly.

I wooden use a wooden prop .

I fly a Glasair and it also requires a small amount of power all the way to the ground, a subtle flair just before the ground.

Quickie Q2 a cousin of the dragonfly.

not a Dragonfly

Fiberglass planes don't really have a ground so whats reversed?

@@FlyMeAirplane The cables are reversed. The color code is reversed. It is just plain evil stuff going on.

Positive ground systems do not play well with modern electronics. I myself would switch the plane over to a negative ground system, easy enough to do. Given that this is an experimental it's just about documenting it in the logs.

So how much for the quickie?

Plane built by mad scientist for sale😂

Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I reckon the Long EZEs look more futuristic. I was at a UK airshow in the 90s, and a similar type of aircraft was being demonstrated - it was a biplane canard with wheels in the wing tips. I can't remember what it was called. The pilot got a dose of exhibitionitis and brought it in hot to the grass runway (or maybe it was also tricky on the flare-out). He dropped it hard and there was a sickening, dull crunch as one wing folded and the plane scraped to a halt on its belly. As he climbed out the pale-faced pilot gave a cheery forced smile, and they dragged the wreck unceremoniously to one side. I reckon he lost all sales on it. After that I came to the conclusion that wheels that far apart are not a good idea.

PS I think it could have been a Viking Dragonfly. They apparently have a much slower stall speed, consequently don't need such long runways as the Quickies.

This one doesn't have 100 HP like the Q200

I was always told they are very prone to crashing. And not very stable

@@gsxr600rafii not at all. they will ground loop if yo are not careful due to the wide landing gear

Not only its speed, but its range too! Its how it was able to fly for 90 minutes at full beans before needing to either land or find an aerial tanker, iirc

We live near one another, 👌.

Bugs on the leading edge stalls the wing OMG

That's flying on the edge!

@@HelplessMammal G'day, Welcome to the Joys of Super Laminar Flow Composite Aerofoils... They GOTTA Be really Really REALLY Smooth. In the 1980s a rash of Slippery Canards began crashing in Light Rain. Surface Tension Glued Droplets to the Gel-Coat, giving a Stippled Surface. Drag went up 30%, Lift went down 35%, and Stall Speed went up 35%, for the effected Section. Edinburgh University figured out a Rain-Safe Modification... But it involved applying Coarse Sandpaper to the front 50% of the Aerofoil, and leaving deep Cross-Hatch patterned Scratches running diagonally both ways as well as straight back.... Then, In Rain, The Water wet the bottom of the Scratches and the Surface Tension made the Water Sheet smoothly and thus Preserve the Smoothness of the Surface presenting to the Air. However, The scratchy hatchy Rainsafe Wings though, Lost ALL the benefits of the Super-Laminar Flow Section..., anytime it was Not Raining.... And, of course, Bug Guts ruins the Smoothness, Wet or dry. So, While Canards are Still a thing, Canards with Super-Laminar Flow Forward Aerofoils Can Sometimes require Power-diving at the Runway to Achieve the required Airspeed to keep a Wet/dirty Canard from Stalling & dropping the Nose Uncontrollably - Especially if the Stick is Pulled back to try Recovering from the Dive. And most People stopped trying to Fly them. Maybe that's why it's in the Museum ? Just(ifiably ?) sayin'. Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !

​@@HelplessMammalit's a laminar flow airfoil, very efficient but unforgiving of disturbance on the wing. Bugs rain etc

@@danblumelsounds dangerous as

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I think the Wright Brothers invented the first Reflexive wings when they developed wing warping instead of using an elevator for coordinated turns.

@@crimestoppers1877 The aileron reflexor (often shortened to just reflexor) is so called because its original use was to reflex the ailerons trailing edge up. It came about because the GU canard exhibited a considerable loss of lift if the surface became contaminated with bugs and/or rain so a solution was sought to be able to combat the effect of having to hold significant back stick. The ailerons on the rear wing were provided with a secondary trim function which allowed them, in addition to their normal function of moving in opposite direction as ailerons, to move up or down together like flaperons. With care, this can be used on the ground to produce a tail down pitch authority which can be a significant help, both with tail wheel steering on the tail dragger, usually only after landing by increasing down force and tyre adhesion, or as a means to help lift the nose wheel on take off with the Tri Q, the Tri prefix being short for Tricycle undercarriage. Unlike the aileron reflexor, The T-tail is not rigged through the ailerons so has no other shared function. It works directly as a mini all flying tail plane fin mounted in the conventional sense. It becomes a third entirely separate flying surface to the canard and main wing. Both the aileron reflexor and the Le Gare T-Tail were separate developments to provide additional pitch control to overcome the loss of canard lift described. Both the mechanical type aileron reflexor and T-Tail are controlled independently of the canard mounted elevator control circuit, which is driven by the stick. They each therefore require a separate lever.

The Q2 was based on Rutan's Quickie but Rutan was not involved with it.

not a Rutan design.

Even as a R/C model--virtually stall proof. Just get the CG correct!

What model is this plane?

Thank you for posting this interesting informative background storyline

@@DCSCustomFabIt's a Quickie Q2 or Q200. It's a two-seat derivative of the Quickie Q1, which the famous Burt Rutan helped design.

Also, to prevent early failure of the strobe Power Supplies, they should be over about an hours time starting from 3 volts to 12 V gradually increase voltage without strobes connected to "reform" the electrolytic capacitors inside. This is true if it hasn't been operated for over a year for sure, 6 months even better. To do this process one needs an adjustable voltage output power supply.

Also spray WD-40 in a circle around the top of every piston, then after 12-24 hours do the same with atomized light oil. There will almost certainly be light rust in the cylinders, and an oil change after 10 minutes running is the cheapest thing you can do for that engine. Fortunately that Revmaster/VW is probably a loose clearance piston. Not too likely to have rings rusted to cylinders, but definitely needs pre-oiled, just like the lubrication system.

As a Brit I can say I 100% agree with you.