by Dickert » Sun Dec 27, 2009 5:08 pm
Nice aircraft.
The nose reminds me of a Metro.
The intakes look a bit small for an aircraft that size. It looked like there are four tail pipes but only two intakes??? Did you do actual engineering or just go be eye? (I'm not one to talk to much here since I just guessed with my aircraft).
I would change the landing gear. A blow out of a single main gear would be a very bad day with an aircraft going down the runway with the kinds of speeds your aircraft would be acheiving. I would go with daul tires. Since you already have the wheels outboard of the gear strut, you would not even have to change the contour of the under side of the wing or belly. You would just make the gear well deeper to make the extra room for the extra wheel. Still on the gear topic, you have a trailing-link gear system on the nose gear but not on the mains... I know there are a few aircraft that do that but those aircraft suck for making a smooth landing. You actually want the trailing-links on the mains.
Good luck with this project, and nice web site by the way.
Harold
