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Airframes => Single Seaters => XL => Topic started by: Samyguy on April 21, 2018, 09:20:16 PM

Title: Generac on LE-XL
Post by: Samyguy on April 21, 2018, 09:20:16 PM

Hi All:   I have a chance to buy a LE-XL minus a motor.
Does anyone know how well a Culver V-Twin will work on these birds??

I already own one, with 25 hours on it.
The LE-XL is new also, or incomplete.

                 thanks

Title: Re: Generac on LE-XL
Post by: Dan_ on April 21, 2018, 10:37:49 PM

Gene and Larry Smith of Valley engineering and Culver Props fame tested their Big Twin version of that engine first on a 900 lb dune buggy, then on an air boat and when they decided it was reliable, the first airplane they flew behind it on was the Legal Eagle... 


Pic below is from this web page http://www.culverprops.com/big-twin.php (http://www.culverprops.com/big-twin.php).

(https://www.eaglersnest.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.culverprops.com%2Fimages%2Fnew-engine-8.jpg&hash=7b709d00d48973f8831cf471cfa12eb4b62b240c)

Title: Re: Generac on LE-XL
Post by: Samyguy on April 22, 2018, 05:48:21 PM

Does anyone have first hand knowledge of this combination?
or seen one fly.

Title: Re: Generac on LE-XL
Post by: Dan_ on April 22, 2018, 06:17:40 PM

The Smiths have taken their YouTube videos down of it, but the Hart Aero guy has some of the same plane.  He apparently acquired it from the guy who bought it from the Smiths. 


The Smiths bought the airframe from the 1/3 corvair originator Fletcher Burns... 


Google is your friend.


(https://media.giphy.com/media/PCya6Lr0RYHM4/giphy.gif)

Title: Re: Generac on LE-XL
Post by: Samyguy on April 22, 2018, 08:12:57 PM

thanks Dan

Title: Re: Generac on LE-XL
Post by: JohnB on May 22, 2018, 11:46:26 AM

I forgot who's wing design is used in Fletcher's "XL" but it  is NOT Leonard's   Fletcher bought the wings and built the fuselage and tail from plans.  check the strut location in the picture, attaches to a tube spar at the leading edge.    Just came to me , wings are from a Delta Honcho, getting old really sucks.
John B