Restoring this old air bike ultralight

[@connermclaughlin1697]

Hope you make the second video. I would like to see the finished tail wheel.

[@marttimattila9561]

Warnin ! Water endet inside fuselage pipes via srew holes, make a drainage holes get Water out and after that flush them with some rust detergent.

[@GermyBallswell]

Yes there is no cap in the back. water flows through

[@guysaulnier7235]

😊😊😊😊👍👍👍

[@MoreDumbThings]

hey Germy its reece I noticed your video thats neat man, happy to see its running

[@thornyturtleranch4u]

Nice, is the yellow painted metal chromoly or is it aluminum ?

[@GermyBallswell]

Yes, it's 4130 steel, mostly 0.45 I believe

[@acatnamedmorris]

Can you put the Jericho sirens on one of your planes?

[@fernandosoares3669]

boa noite , gostaria da planta do air bike, poderia me ajudar

[@fernandosoares2214]

Meu sonho construir um deste😢

[@dentech987]

I had an Airbike. Was going to say horrible little airplane, even after I did much needed mods. I'll substitute horrible for undesirable.

[@GermyBallswell]

I'm curious what you mean, it was horrible in comparison with other ultralights? Or compared to something else. What problems did you have?

[@dentech987]

I learned quickly to hate my legs outside the airframe. Duct taping pant legs can help. The dread terror of falling out will take a while to get used to. You'll wish you had at least some shoulder or upper body side to side resistance. In time you can overcome this as long as no side jolt ever comes. Landing gear is weak and unforgiving, and I give your flimsy bicycle wheels a short life before failure. I replaced the gear legs with Rans spring steel legs. Replaced crappy wheels and tires with light weight 6" aluminum wheels and tracy obrien hydraulic brakes and aircraft tires (which are quite light.) Individual toe brakes along with locking tailwheel (mine homemade) can make ground handling a joy instead of a chore. Those full span ailerons are crap and make handling heavy, and adverse. Seating was terribly uncomfortable due geometry in relation to my butt and leg positioning and length I guess but the fact was my legs wanted to splay out and in time my muscles grew weary and the solution I found was to wrap a bungie around my legs to hold them together. These things are some of the worst I recall but there's more. I have flown other light and ultralight aircraft like kitfox and Eippers MXL. Good luck. @@GermyBallswell

[@GermyBallswell]

@@dentech987 ah, thank you. My main dislike about it is the landing gear. In the next video I show making differential toe disc brakes, longer landing gear legs, aluminum shifter cart wheels and Carlisle turf glide tires. They are heavy tires so I might not stick with them.

[@dentech987]

Along with mods I made I would also strongly recommend a simple independent (not bungie type) elevator trim mechanism. Even an electric ala rc servo type. would do. Oh and plenty of power is needed. I started off dangerously underpowered with the one cylinder 277? Rotax. I got a funny story about that one. I'd recommend a 503 or equivalent if you're going over 3 or 4000 feet msl. @@GermyBallswell

[@GermyBallswell]

@@dentech987 that's a really good idea. A 1/16 aluminum plate with hinge on one side of the elevator with a 2s lipo batt and servo tester running up to the control stick would probably work great. Probably wouldn't need to be any bigger than 4" x 8"