Airplane on a Sidewalk! Winston's 1927 Monocoupe Project

[@JoseRivera-lt2cc]

You have to appreciate the true craftmanship & the labor of love.!! Kudos for exposing this skillset.

[@Hedgeknight420]

Damn bro he’s crazy good at making stuff . This is the type of guy you protect during the apocalypse .

[@Bugkiller666]

WOW a trip from the past !! it would be nice to have a tube frame like the original. Very nice work Winston!

[@kirbyn2010]

What fortune, to have a neighbor like Winston! He is equally fortunate to have you as a neighbor. I am restoring a rag and tube 2 seater but his is far prettier than mine. That monocoupe is a lovely design. I subscribed, thanks for the video.

[@RaymondLeonard-z8m]

WOW! That is such a cool project, and it was so interesting to hear the discussion. You’re knocking it out of the Park. Super Well done.

[@garyrasso6149]

Winston, very nice. I grew up in Moline and remember the Velie Mansion along with the stories of Mr. Velie building cars and airplanes. The Velie Mansion is still there on a hill as it overlooks to the south and if you stand on your tip toes you can see the Moline Airport (MLI). Once completed, you’ll have to plan a trip to stop at MLI on your way to Osh Kosh.

[@7thkansascav468]

The Quad City Airport in Moline has a restored Monocoupe hanging in the terminal.

[@allenschmitz9644]

Been to Velies grave in Moline. 😊

[@tomi6261]

This is very cool!! I hope to see an update video next year showing this beauty flying!

[@Richard-nq5pj]

Your oeuvre is growing in breadth and originality! This was a unique addition. Perhaps this plane will make it to Air Venture sometime? Keep up the good work!

[@jeffreyfitzgerald1779]

Can't wait to see it fly. The first Pietenpol used a car engine. He built it, they say, after reading an article "engineers say no automobile engine can power an airplane". Fortunately, he wasn't an engineer. The Ford Model A engine became standard for the production model.

[@jinitom]

You're the best, Emma.

[@dennisclapp7527]

Thanks Winston. What a unique aeroplane.

[@56Spookdog]

Very cool, I’m a fan of the 20s and early 30 vehicles. I love driving my 1926 Oakland.

[@jamesburnside4819]

Very enjoyable video. Thanks

[@PDZ1122]

Just to be pedantic; the Champ does not have a Clark Y airfoil. Neither did the Cub, like many people think. Champ was NACA 4412. The Cub had a USA-35B.

[@MonostripeZebra]

It is beautful! Happy future landings!

[@paratyshow]

👍✅ Great episode Emma👏

[@JustinMask-l6e]

Early in the video he had two model A rims on the wall in his garage. But I saw the car across the street also it’s sort of looks like a model T because it had wooden spokes on it that stopped in 1926 or 27 some model tees did have steel spoked rims. But the ones hanging in the garage belong to a model A.

[@scoot601]

Winston was awesome…need more Emma though 😍

[@WarrenKimpel]

another nice video THANKS

[@jbuntin]

Great job Emma!!

[@st-qp4mr]

Great ep but I need to see more of Emma.....please interview your subjects with you standing in frame that would be perfection....U are the show Emma😊

[@richardshippful]

Very cool

[@donhedeman8650]

Don Luscombe and Clayton Folkerts were both Iowa boys. Their Monocoupes evolved into some very mean machines, racing at 220 mph and performing aerobatics at airshows. Where is the gentleman in the video located ?

[@jfc213]

great video amma

[@marttimattila9561]

Steel tube fuse would be piece of cake for me but Wings are always time consuming. In Finland no way to find affordable Radial unles its from AN-2 and too big. Nice work.

[@mikercflyer7383]

Emma, do you know Alena from Culver Props? That would be an interesting video. Reminded me seeing the wooden prop on this antique airplane. Safe travels

[@bentonbee1]

Great!!

[@Minyx03]

Hey hello, are you guys flying again in C182? Saw the aircraft flying over Indian airspace today!

[@FlyMeAirplane]

Original was steel tubing design but he wants to use wood... I hope he's a mechanical engineer...

[@tenlittleindians]

It always amazes me how people know so little about wood. We even had wood baseball bats, wooden boats, wooden houses and the worlds largest flying boat made of wood. The Ragwing airplane he mentioned is a modern wood airplane design. He's concerned about the wing attachment point for good reason. I'm sure he will come up with a secure mounting method after studying similar designs that used wood. If I were him I'd add some fake mounting points for giant fake rubber bands and tell people the wing is held on by rubber bands like his model airplanes. The speeds, the wing loading and the G-forces for a craft like this is very similar to ultralight aircraft and the Cub's, the Taylorcraft's and the Areonca's of the 30's and 40's.

[@leifvejby8023]

Hope he intends to install a carb. heater.

[@rickunruh8132]

Interesting car across the street. Any idea what it is?

[@FlyingDoodles]

It’s a 1923 Dodge Roadster. If you watch the video on our Patreon, we talk about it too!

[@alanduncan9204]

I know nothing, but when the plane is horizontal is that prop not close to making a ground strike or was it the camera angle ? Takes a lot of faith in your build skill to get up in the air in a wooden plane.

[@scottfw7169]

Thinking about that question I went searching photos online. A lot of photos both modern and vintage have the prop horizontal on near horizontal but search results did provide a vintage image at University of Memphis Digital Commons with prop at similar angle to what is shown here at 0:08. Look for image titled, Phoebie Omlie and The Monocoupe airplane undated.

[@alanduncan9204]

@@scottfw7169 thanks

[@AlbertRobinson-v3y]

Hi Emma, Where is Winston located? I have wanted to build a Velie Monocoupe for a long time.. Any outreach possible?

[@FlyingDoodles]

Sure, shoot me an email [e-mail]

[@murrayhelmer8941]

I don’t understand going to all that work and not building a steel tube airframe!!

[@saputramaulana7731]

👍🏼👍🏻❤️

[@anthonyrstrawbridge]

✋💛👍

[@michaelbaumgardner2530]

Hey Emma would you fly that plane

[@FlyingDoodles]

Yup!

[@MikeGibson-l5e]

You should put yourself in the picture more in these videos instead of just a voice asking questions prior can see your pretty little face