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Posted: Sep/02/2010 at 12:23 |
Hey Everyone!
I just joined and am looking for some advice. I need to remove the wings off the plane that I have included a photo of. The upper wing is actually two.
Just looking for advice on supporting them and was wondering do you think the wings will support themselves once the struts are removed? I am trying to figure out how not to damage the plane!
Thanks Chris Durand
Edited by Durand - Sep/02/2010 at 12:28
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Posted: Sep/02/2010 at 14:00 |
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Any day that you learn something is a day well spent. My day is not wasted. I don't recall ever hearing about the Durand before. Thank you. Any other pictures or pilot reports?
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Posted: Sep/02/2010 at 14:24 |
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I think the windshield and framework slide forward to enter/egress....remember an article about the Durand in SA or somewhere....always thought it was just funky enough to be pretty cool!!
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Posted: Sep/02/2010 at 14:41 |
Hello!
This plane is very special to me, My grandfather was the designer and builder. This is serial #1. Yes the canopy slides forward and is very easy to get in and out of.
I am putting together a blog right now about the plane, how I ended up with it and my progress. I will post a link in the next day or so.
My grandfather passed away and last June I got a good look at the plane for the first time in a long while. Here is link to a video that I made that has the plane in it.
Thanks so much for your interest.
Chris Durand
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Posted: Sep/02/2010 at 16:06 |
With there being actually four different panels to the wings, I'd say you should have some extra hands removing them.
The lower ones could be supported by saw horses, but having one person on the leading edge and one on the trailing while a third unbolts the wing from the fuselage seems to be bare minimum to easily avoid damage. I'm sure some jig could be designed, but that seems like a lot of extra work.
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Posted: Sep/02/2010 at 16:10 |
Chris, thanks very much for sharing the info and video about your grandfather's plane and his remarkable homebuilding history. I am sure you already know about these, but I found quite a few articles by or about him in the back issues of Sport Aviation available online.
THE DURAND XD-85 WAS an all-metal, tri-gear pusher that was designed and developed in the post-war years of 1945 to 1948 by William H. Durand, EAA 31262, of 84th and McKinley in Omaha, Neb. It was a good dream, but like a number of other new airplanes of that period, it was abandoned because of the failure of the personal | Leo J. Kohn | October 1967 | ALTHOUGH AT present there is no standard tail-first airplane in production, the fact that the world's first successful heavier-than-air craft was a canard would seem to merit a discussion of airplanes of this type. Among developments along this line are the Focke-Wulf Ente built in Germany; the spin-proof airplane built some years ago in this country by Granville Brothers, creators | William H. Durand | August 1968 | HERE IS A unique but purposeful combination of the old and new -- a negative stagger cabin biplane with modern full span flaps, spoilers, stabilator, forward sliding canopy, tricycle landing gear, and all metal construction. It obviously isn't a radical airplane, but still its appearance is unusual enough to give it a very distinctive identity. Instead of being a derivative | William H. Durand | November 1978 |
IT'S UNCANNY HOW one singles out some isolated remark from year's past to be remembered. For example, my high school physics teacher said to me many years ago that "any airplane is really just a bundle of forces," and I thought of this remark often while planning the general layout of the Durand Mk. V, trying to gather the | William H. Durand | January 1979 | AT AIRPORTS WHERE the Mk V stopped enroute to Oshkosh last summer several people thought that this homebuilt was a new design just off an assembly line. It has been described as "sophisticated". However, appearances can be deceiving. The Durand Mk V was designed from its inception to be a home workshop project economical of shop space, construction time and | William H. Durand | April 1979 | ADDITIONAL INTERESTING DETAILS of the DU- rand Mk V construction are illustrated in this article. In the design of this project the aim was to make possible an attractively finished professionally engineered product that could be built by a novice. The building processes themselves are limited to simple tasks that can be accomplished with ordinary tools. While the prototype is | William H. Durand | May 1979 |
Cheers,
Matthew
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Posted: Sep/02/2010 at 17:35 |
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Very nice Chris. Your Grandfather was a very cool guy.
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Daryl in WY
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Posted: Sep/02/2010 at 18:20 |
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looking forward to the blog....
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Posted: Sep/02/2010 at 22:49 |
Thanks everyone, I have seen those articles but man it has been a while! Here is that blog I was talking about. I am going to be adding to it on almost a daily basis soon. I plan on going to pick the plane up in a couple weeks!!
Thanks again and see you around the forum!
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Posted: Sep/03/2010 at 05:11 |
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Are plans still available for this? Wow, I really like this.
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Posted: Sep/03/2010 at 12:42 |
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I will check and see about the plans. I have my own set. The palns are so easy to read and are done up really nice.
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Posted: Sep/03/2010 at 12:57 |
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I know I would be interested, if for nothing else, the historic value. But, it would be a fun plane to build and own as well.
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Posted: Yesterday at 11:19 |
I am still in the process of getting things in order as far as the plane is concerned. Give me a couple months to figure some things out. Here are a couple pages from the plans. Unfortunatly the size allowed by the forum doesn't do these justice.
Edited by Durand - Yesterday at 11:24
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Follow my progress on the Durand MkV all metal biplane at www.durandskyranch.com
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