The Flying Paperclip

[Nev25]

At the air show at Avalon this year there was an Aircraft on display I the SAAA tent affectionately know as the Flying Paperclip

 

Anyone know anything about this??

 

 

[PA.]

This be the flying paperclip.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Riley]

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Good one PA. Thanks.

 

 

[Nev25]

Yeah Thanks PA

 

Seem a far bit of info around on this machine

 

And the plans are suppose to be open source but just cannot find them

 

 

[PA.]

You got pictures, how hard could it be?

 

 

[Nev25]

You got pictures, how hard could it be?

HUH???

 

 

[djpacro]

A thread here a few years ago where Ron Ligetti posted the website for the open source project. iPad won't let me paste the link but easily found with a search.

 

 

[Nev25]

A thread here a few years ago where Ron Ligetti posted the website for the open source project. iPad won't let me paste the link but easily found with a search.

I assume you are talking about

http://www.ligetistratos.com

 

Link is dead

 

 

[djpacro]

Search for the thread on this forum some years ago and it mentions www.lgtaerospace.com

 

 

[Nev25]

Search for the thread on this forum some years ago and it mentions www.lgtaerospace.com

Yeap no plans there

 

 

[Old Koreelah]

At the air show at Avalon this year there was an Aircraft on display I the SAAA tent affectionately know as the Flying PaperclipAnyone know anything about this??

I'd love to help you find out more about one of Australia's most innovative aircraft designers, but even Wikipedia doesn't seem to have anything on him. About time someone (with more knowledge than I) entered the story of Charles Lugetti and his Stratos aircraft, the splash it made at Oshkosh and how he was taken from us while flight testing. I saw a Stratos at the Temora museum a couple of years ago. Perhaps you could start there.

 

 

[PA.]

Try these links.

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20080320230940/http://www.lgtaerospace.com/index.htm

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20110202110203/http://lgtaerospace.com/

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20110615022936/http://www.lgtaerospace.com/

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20110814151320/http://www.lgtaerospace.com/

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20120617095259/http://www.lgtaerospace.com/

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20120831142035/http://www.lgtaerospace.com/

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20130603131130/http://lgtaerospace.com/

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20130917042253/http://www.lgtaerospace.com/

 

 

Try some of the links from these pages.

 

 

[Nev25]

Return email from LGT Aerospace

 

Plans are not available at the moment. The new Stratos is currently being built, it will confirm the aspects of the design and drawings before any commercial sale will take place.

 

 

 

Thanks

 

LGT Aerospace

 

 

[flyvulcan]

There has been a very good discussion about the Stratos at the following link http://www.homebuiltairplanes.com/forums/aircraft-design-aerodynamics-new-technology/5262-ligeti-stratos.html. It makes for an interesting read about people's passion for the design and also about some of the perceived/actual problems with the aircraft.