Kuyper Flystar

Gallery Article by Kees Kuyper on Mar 9 2017

 

      

The new plane is the Flystar of the Amsterdam Gliding Club, with a glider registration.  This gliding club is real, but the plane is not.

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The configuration of the wings is not new, but I have chosen it because it looks to offer more space for solar panels.  But I must say that the wings came out a bit too long.

The single electric engine (from a Fairey Rotodyne) would be replaced by six to ten smaller electric engines for more safety when I would build it again.  

And when their propeller wind would cool the solar panels these seem to give more power.

Greetings from M.A.D.

Kees Kuyper

Photos and text © by Kees Kuyper