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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Oct 1, 2005
Description:
I've seen the Perfect Seaplane for Frank G at the VA EAA fly-in at Dinwiddie County Airport (PTB).
I felt just a bit bold, parking my SeaRey just a short distance from a beautiful, prize-winning SeaWind. (No time here for analyses of the SeaWind's attributes and shortcomings.) But in a few minutes a car pulled in between us, towing a trailer bearing a... well, you've seen it here first, probably.
It's the Flexwing. Make that THE Flexwing--the first and perhaps the one and only. The designer and builder, an engineer, is on the left in the second picture.
The wings are folded? No! They're furled. The spar of each wing is essentially a mast, and the wing is a sail.
He said he has a patent on the trianglar tail.
The engine is a 40 hp Rotax 447. The data plate says the model is X-11. The serial no. is 1. The empty weight is 530 and the max weight is 850. The date of manufacture was 20 OCT 90.
He showed me lots of photos of it in flight.
Eat your heart out, Frank!
Another Frank--Frank Minnick of MD SeaRey legend--stopped to chat and we admired the storied X-11 together.
Date Taken:
Oct 1, 2005
Place Taken:
PTB
Owner:
Don Maxwell
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John Haines - Oct 02,2005
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I've seen pictures of this flying machine before, though I can't recall where. Anyway, so far it seems to me that no matter what they've come up with there's nothing out there yet to compare to our SeaRey's! Dexter Coffin
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