Fly this from your Backyard?! Top Rudder Ruckus and Solo

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[Jeffopar]

A 912 on this would be phenomenal. I am following this with lots of interest. For buzzing around the local area this looks awesome.

[nzkiwi]

Pre-Covid I was really excited for this airplane, but the world de-railed the project. I'm glad the Ruckus is available, although it is far more expensive now than the original $19k pre-covid price.

[straightchad]

This plane is like a flying version of scrambler motorbike 🛩️

[Gmoney_]

Hopefully the kit price is more affordable!

[DanFrederiksen]

Regarding minimal planes like this, I get the idea of the truss structure, you can buy inexpensive stock and make many shapes BUT you just end up with a great number of elements which decisively undermines the principle. It's no longer inexpensive although still fairly light. Why not a single tube (like carbon fiber) from tail to engine where the seat and wing is also mounted. And rather than wing struts that suffer the same flaw of being fairly light but ends up complex, just do a straight simple wing because the right material is plenty strong without struts. Imagine how quickly you could manufacture a plane that's mainly just a wing on a tube. A 'low' wing can also have landing gear so those arms don't have to be so long.
So wing on a single tube has to be the simplest design for a minimal plane. And if you are willing to put a bit more effort into it then a single piece teardrop composite fuselage is just unbeatable for weight and enclosure. It wont look WW1 like most stol planes do because the design isn't questioned, it will look much like a glider and that's not an arbitrary aesthetic, that's good engineering.
the profound thing is that you could imagine a plane like the swiss Risen falling under part 103 and being a fantastic aircraft capable of a lot of travel virtually for free. because it only takes a little polini motor to make it go a decent speed.

[quenko]

7:36 that's another two wheel Ruckus passing by on the background. How ironic. 😂

[tonyvitiello]

These sound great. All the additional changes sound great. The engine options sound great. When?

[johnandrews]

Prices are insane.. few tubes welded together and a leaf blower moter on the front.. 40 k.. wow. Thing looked affordable watched the whole thing then he says 40k..

[patrickmckowen]

Thats what Im taking about, folding wings 👍
Would love to know how that OpenPPG Ekit is working out?
Cheers

[tadassimonis]

Can you aileron roll it or put it into spin?

[danielfager]

What is the price for it as an experimental build to be ordered with no engine or gages ? Please LMK where to call and who to contact !

[srnunan]

Its 40k for the airfeame so by the time you put the 80hp 912 and a few options on it would be $70k + And still no doors. Would be fun though, a mosquito xet would be better but These would be better than an airborne trike though

[bengtthulin]

Top Rudder Aircraft

Ruckus♥️👍👍🤠

35 foot take off.
25 foot landing.
10 gallons fuel.
8 to 10 hours range (55mph)
1, 000 pound useful load.

Sounds like they had Alaska in mind when they built this one ♥️👍👍🤠

[UnexpectedInquisition]

Electric option sounds interesting. Given the useful load you could probably bring an extra battery (even a Jackery or something) to recharge the main batteries from, and mount some of those very light Renology flexible solar panels or similar taped (eternabond or whatever) atop the wings. Those wings are big enough for like, 1200 watts of solar. Add in an extra battery at the cost of some useable weight and you can probably have a very long range, self recharging ultralight. Fly one way, camp/park a couple days and recharge, fly back ;) And if there is a grid to recharge from even faster, that is even better.

[flyfun]

I am curious to find out how hard is to get an insurance Co. That insure it, when you find how expensive it will be. I Love the concept

[uninitializedvariable]

Flying a 172 but this is really tempting as a little "side plane", to be honest.

[defender]

Where do I find regulations about aircraft weight limits

[junsczu]

Mybe I’m nuts but a fuel injected Yamaha yz250f or 450f engine seems like a good idea

[briand]

Designed by Troy Woodland at Just Aircraft

[AM-nkit]

Can I mount a Yamaha snowmobile engine on this? And later on, put a turbo on it for a reliable 300 HP ?