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Cruisin' like Rutan...

PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 9:58 pm
by swordfish1227
Quickie Q-200 by Hiroaki Kubota. Very nice flying plane.

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A little different than it looked in the first shot...
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Re: Cruisin' like Rutan...

PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 12:01 am
by Wing Nut
Sweeeet...  :)

Re: Cruisin' like Rutan...

PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 12:08 am
by mpicco
Wow nice plane, never seen it before... looks like fun... is it stable? does it exist on real life? ^^

Re: Cruisin' like Rutan...

PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 2:47 am
by fabiane
Nice plane, been looking for that for a while..., like No. 2 best.

In the "Deutsches Museum" in Munich they've got one. I took that pic in 2004...

Cheers,
Fabian

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Re: Cruisin' like Rutan...

PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:13 am
by Wing Nut
They have one at the Sun-n-Fun museum here in Lakeland too.  Weirdest looking plane ever....

Re: Cruisin' like Rutan...

PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:52 pm
by swordfish1227
They have one at the Sun-n-Fun museum here in Lakeland too.  Weirdest looking plane ever....



Not quite the weirdest...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_Com ... _Model_395
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technol ... 89166.html

Re: Cruisin' like Rutan...

PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 4:28 pm
by haroldkip
Nice bird and a awkward design. But Burt Rutan makes a lot of awkward things ...

Re: Cruisin' like Rutan...

PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:21 pm
by BigTruck
looks fun  :D