Q1_Aircraft: Re: [Quickie_1] Digest Number 19

In a message dated 8/14/03 03:43:05 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
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>>Just bought one of those Quickie CD's off of Ebay. The reproduction
quality sucks but the price was OK. There is another one on there now
I guess that I will see what it looks like.<<


I have not yet seen the quality of the CD you refer to but I do know that the
quality of
the other one is first rate - from first hand experience. The 'good one' is
the one offered by Quickiesource. It also includes some other factory
information that is needed to properly build a Quickie. I have the same files
that I
got direct from him and they are very good. You can take them to your local
Kinkos and have them printed in the full 11' X 17' size or print them on your
personal printer on standard letter size paper. Even in the small size they
are clear enough to use during construction. In fact the smaller size is kind
of convenient.

>>The ads for these claim that plans for machined parts and weldments
are missing. Does anyone know just what they are talking about?<<

The original Quickie, while normally registered as a 'plans built' to make
the paper work easier, was in fact a 'kit built' plane. It came with all of the
cast, welded, and machined pieces finished. QAC never did release drawings
for these parts. They were made by the late Ken Brock but he rightly refused
to make any from the tooling for anyone else. The full size patterns for the
various bulkheads and foam cores were a separate part of the plans. Some of
these are included with in the body of the plans but due to reproduction
inaccuracies when scanned into PDF format and reprinted you may end up with
patterns
that are distorted. So you also need a set of full size templates. This
means that you need a Quickie kit to build one or............

I have redrawn the all of full size templates and I am the one offering these
for sale on eBay. I can include photo copied versions of the LS-1 canard
upgrade but I don't believe that they are completely accurate. I have not yet
had the time to redo these. Besides QAC went out of business before very many
of the needed carbon fiber spars for the Q-1 LS-1 were sold. The Q-2 tubular
carbon spars will not interchange. So the likleyhood of one being able to
actualy build an original LS-1 canard is slim. The Q-2 spars have been put back
into limited production by an individual in Australia and he says if the demand
is there he can make the Q-1 spars as well.

So that takes care of the plans and the templates. The only thing needed is
a set of original machined and welded parts.

It just so happens that I have redrawn most of these as well. I should have
the last rudder parts finished today. Once this portion of my project is
complete I will be offering them as part of the template package on eBay. They
will have the critical dimensions shown and will be intended to be cut up to use
as full size templates. I just spray the back of the paper with spray
adhesive, glue them to the metal and cut the part out with a band saw and then
finish to size, and polish on a belt sander.

Other notes:
None of my drawings include anything for the firewall forward. You are on
your own for the powerplant. I don't think that the original Onan was a
particularly good choice of a power plant and see no reason to perpetuate a bad
idea.
Some have had good luck with the Onan and seem to like it. If you want to
fly the Onan track them down and get the info from them.

There are drawings for an alternate version of the LS-1 canard that have been
released into the public domain using Graphlite brand carbon fiber rods
rather than the original hard to find tubular spars. Alan Theyar had the new
canard designed by an engineer, built the thing, and has drop tested it to
verify
that it does meet the strength requirements, but he has not yet flown one. I
have little doubt that it will fly just fine.

So in conclusion if you want to build a Quickie from scratch, as of a bit
later today you will be able to. Just watch eBay. There are no copyright
problems with my documents as they are all my own work. Each set of prints is
double checked against the master, or printed directly from my CAD files, and
numbered.



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Leon McAtee
Q-1 'super sized'.........At least it still kind of looks like one......
Looking for Aeronca C-3 Factory drawings/copies
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