[jester]

Light Easily Made Inexpensibe Planes:

It is VERY Simple to make such planes like the pipercub. A simple rec plane with either a thin sheet metal skin, or a fabric skin stretched over a frame of light metal tubing or wood. Personaly I would go with metal tubing or even metal framework, and a thin metal skin over would provide the best support.

You could make it where the wings simply unbolt from the frame and slide out. Another more complicated place, where and how to mount the engine. I would also use a pusher engine as it is more efficient and usualy allows for a more manuverable platform.

I would also have the wings in the high profile configuration with a centraly mounted engine.

Engines I would use, VW engines and Fiat engines would work well as they are aircooled and not watercooled, a 4 cylinder engine would do well in a light plane which is what we are going for.

Then, we simply install the control features in the fail and wings. These are usualy used by a pulley and wire system connected to the pedals and control stick.

As I said, get half a dozen aircraft mechanics, an engineer with the facilities and materials and they could probably put together such a craft that is safe and flys. It just won't have alot of the frills that most have these days.

Another idea with my aircraft design is you can fly it with landing gear that falls away from the aircraft. Which eliminates weight and drag, not to mention any controls. Upon landing it lands like a glider, another aspect of the high rear propeller.

And again, the bigger problem isn't making the aircraft, its the fuel to keep them flying. If one has a catonment they could manage a primative aircraft as they used to and still do store many in barns. As an evil GM I would balance the availability with a lack of technicians or fuel, making it very time consuming to process regular gas into avaiation grade fuel.