Sling Pilots Forum

Welcome to the Sling Builders club. Its getting bigger all the time!! Any way My Sling TSI (Quick Build) is coming along and your welcome to come by for a visit any time. My hangar is at Baker Sky Ranch (18FD Private Grass strip air park) just West of you down I-10 a short distance (assuming your re...

Thanks but no thanks. I don’t need more emails. I want to simply go to the forum when I can, and then select a link (button). And see the new forum posts I haven’t seen.

Cecil

Great input. Yes Ive asked for the same Button function.

Im building my TSI on a Grass strip and have flown my Cherokee PA28-180 from this srip for 6 years with wheel pants, have had No Issues. Only thing I recommend is to keep the tires inflated and grass mowed good, Im sure if the grass got too long it would start geeting trimmed by the wheel pants. Cecil

Answer I believe is it would be more of a new aircraft vs a modification, and for a company the question would be is their a market big enough for this néw plane to make it a cost effective development. But you could have a close to 200 MPH 2 seat aircraft with the right design and a 915 engine usin...

I made a picture of the construction differences between the Sling TSi, Vans RV8, and Cherokee PA28-180D to show numbers of rivets/foot and rivet sizes between the 3 AIrcraft, but this forum won't let me post it, any way here is the number of rivets/foot holding the wing skin to the main wing spar f...

Check these folks out in New York!! There a Sling Dealer and build center.

https://www.customaircraftbuilders.com/
Cecil

Not sure where but I was told if you put the 915 on the Sling 2 the extra power would allow you to easily exceed it’s design flight envelope. Worry is aerodynamic’s and flutter. So you (or your data recorder) would be able to provide feedback on just where the control flutter starts. Of course you c...

Sign up for the Wednesday 17 March Sling Webinair Sign up link; https://www.eaa.org/eaa/news-and-publications/eaa-webinars 3/17/21. 7 p.m. CDT. Sling Aircraft Kits. Mike Blyth Mike Blyth from Sling Aircraft will cover the Sling series of amateur-built and light-sport aircraft, including their histor...

If you read the fine print the TSI listed gross weight matches with the emergency parachute listed max recovery weight. So I'm estimating that any aircraft weight over that gross weight as long as it's inside the CG envelope would only result in a increased sink rate if you deployed the parachute. W...