Speaking of Wingo and things, (it's been February, 2007 since I've last visited this site), I see that a lot of previous videos,stories seem to be missing I liked your old layout much better. It was fun reading your adventures, but that has mostly been edited, deleted. So what it is worth, I wish you would restore all the cool videos. I fly the Wingo too--I'm on my second one--too many accidents. I think I will try what you did, that is take just the wing (the only part that seems to come through intact in a crash) and build a "wooden" body, and carbon fuse..... (on the other hand, I'm not as adept as you are in the way of inventing/fabricating something so it will be interesting)

I am sorry too that you have not been flying lately--I will be anxiously waiting for your next flying project!!

(side note: I came to the site just to make a donation, but your paypal link takes me to an all german paypal site that I cannot use, and I don't know how to do it on the "USA english paypal site")

Ok, it is probably me and old age that thought you had changed your site layout. Anyway, I still like the site a lot.

I went to donations again, and it took me to paypal still in german. I then went to my regular paypal link, logged in, all english. That was good, because I was worried paypal would forever be in german I opened up a 2nd browser window, went to your donation link, and bingo, it worked--it was in english! You were right--some cookie thing was going on. (I very rarely go to any german language web sites, so why german for paypal? One of life's little mysteries I guess.)

When I complete my Wingo "contraption", I will post pictures if you think there might be interest in seeing them. One design consideration is the motor. I'm going to switch from the brushed motor with a gearbox to a direct drive brushless in-runner. I have a Multiplex Brushless BL-480/8D motor with a 8x4 prop that I will use for power. This seems like a perfect match to power a Wingo, particularily with a load like a camcorder.

One issue for me is the placement of the motor in relationship to the wing. What is the best up/down/left/right thrust angle?? Where should the trust line be on a high wing, pusher aircraft?? What happens if thrust line too low?? Too high?? A little research is in order before I proceed I think I will need to put some kind of adjustment mechanism so I can adjust it empirically. This is what I believe to be the hardest thing to get right. Anyhow, if time allows, I should have something built within a month......