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Possibility of a Two Place Jet Flea of Sort.
Design No. 14 - Originally sketched 11-30-1997
on vellum.
A unique longitudinal stability from
the delta planform.
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Design Concepts provides interesting views of preliminary aircraft designs
that can be referred to if you are considering building a Flying Flea style or a
short coupled tandem wing aircraft.
There are a few conventional ones shown here as a matter of interest. Most of
the designs presented have had a preliminary weight and balance completed
to justify pursuing further work. All are worth pursuing.
Multiple views have also been developed (top, front, auxiliary) for most of
them, as is necessary for weight and balance. A few multiple views will be
added from time to time.
Each design is presented as a small thumbnail photo. Click on each one to see
a larger view.
Any questions can be referred to the "Contact Us" tool bar link at the left to
submit email.
Plans are not available for any aircraft shown here. The designs are presented
to introduce the endless variations that can be created in hope that you do
study the variations that you may want to include in your own design.
Click on most photos to
enlarge for a clear view
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Copyright © 2000- 2018 by Richard W. Fraser All Rights Reserved
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A Honey Bee Ultra-light concept.
Click on the image to see four
views shown at the bottom of the
Bee Aviation Associates page
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Line drawing of the "Mystery Pou" as it may have been envisioned. The submission
to a local website group ended up with no responses. How about a response from
someone now?
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"Mystery Pou"
A little more
complete with
fabric etc.
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Little Squirt - All Aluminum
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Another version on a well
known "Nest of Dragons"
sketch and a Horten
Brothers approach
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A Disposable Aircraft
6- place Reebok (for a military customer) -
the fuselage design is a Lifting Body.
Wings folded, it can be driven on roads
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Flea Plus
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Flea Plus TG - Tail Dragger
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Flea Plus Two - Twin Rudders
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F5Fras13 and 15 Airfoil Data Page.
- A proven Airfoil -
Click on the Airfoil Image
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XF-205 Levitator 2-Place, rear view.
What? 3- wings (LIFT)
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XF-205 Levitator 2-Place,
rear view. What? 3- wings
(LIFT)
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"Mystery Pou"
Very clean door entry is only 20" from the ground
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XF-205 Levitator 2-Place, top view
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PeeWeePou - Click to enlarge
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HM14R1 (single one piece rudder) and HM14R2 with 2- fins
and rudders. The fuselage is designed as a lifting body
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Design No. 16 Single place Aluminum Wing
with Gear Retract
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XF-205 Levitator 2-Place and XF-129 1-Place
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Steerable Tail
Wheel by Rudder
Movement
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Design 14.5, all aluminum
structure
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Preliminary Performance
(A FED-X® Mini)
Length 13', Fwd Wing Span
22', Aft Wing Span 14'. Heavy
Lifter at 755 lbs. at 45 mph
take-off in ground effect. No
Flaps.
Empty Weight 377 lbs.
Fixed Fwd Wing - 30U-415
Airfoil
All moveable aft wing -
F5Fras13 airfoil.
Lift at 80 mph at 500' altitude -
1,300 lbs. at an A.O.A. of
8 degrees.
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2- Place all
aluminum Design
Number 10S2
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HM14R1climbing, HM14R2
with 2- fins
and rudders under chute
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By Request - A PeeWeePou conversion
into a conventional low wing ultralight
possibility. Great for pilots with wide
shoulders
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Design: Easy Standard Ultralight
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By Request - A PeeWeePou
conversion top view
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By Request - An Inverted Gull wing
alternate also. This will simplify the
landing gear and offer much more
downward visibility
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By Request - A fully enclosed canopy
version
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By Request - A fully enclosed Inverted
Gull wing canopy version with heavy pilot
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A Quickie - sketch took about 20 minutes. Has proper wing
separations horizontal and vertical.
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Design Concepts
FRASER AERO TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
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A 2- Hr. Sketch with CAD above ...
Includes top view which is not shown
here
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Hight Aspect Ratio wings on a
normally low aspect ratio flea format.
Functional Dornier style wing tips.
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R.H Door side. Easier to get into and out of than a Honda
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A message and nice photos from Graham Priest
The pictures below Flea that was one Frenchman's life work. It started out as a two seater
with a small Citroen engine and 3/4 " square tubing fuselage. As you can imagine there
were certain power to weight issues. And the engine was changed to a VW four cyl. Neither
of these engines had a reduction gear, so the power issues were not resolved. The builder
even carved his own tri-pale propeller!
Even the wing struts were steel tube. (following Mignet's distrust of Ally tube.)
When the builder came to register the a/c with the French aviation, it was too heavy for a
single seater- which was what he had changed it too. So he had to go two seater again, by
fitting a tandem seat behind the pilot. Only stuff like this could happen in a place like
France. Here is another picture of the cabin.
Here is another picture alongside the Black Butterfly HM293.
Hope it maybe gives you some inspiration? Sorry to clog up your H/Drive.
I have just heard that in UK all single seaters empty weight less than 300 Kgs are to be
de-regulated. No more Section S air worthy issues - thank God! At last!
I hope you like my little collection of photos
Atvb
Graham
P. S. Must add my beautiful Bifly to your collection- sorrie!
Being 6'2" I found it very uncomfortable inside. The only thing in it's favour are the wings-
they were(are) beautifully made, and both sets folding.
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Model - F main gear
retract study
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Model - F
Single float amphibian. Ideal for ocean landings and take offs.
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Float Buoyancy Calculations Using Simpson's Rules
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