Folding wing for Ercoupes?

A few years back I was looking into the Valkyre. They were going to use
carbon fibre wings with linkages between the wing and the body so that all
you had to do was slide the wing into position and lock it. Two min job per
wing.

Neat design, too bad they spent so much time trying to perfect the design
that they went out of business.


"Morgans" wrote in message
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"George Patterson" wrote

I don't see how. You can pull a wing off a Cessna 152, 172, etc. by
removing
three bolts. With a Maule, it's four. Can't get much simpler than that.
Of
course, you still need to mess around with the aileron cables and flaps
linkages, but you'd have to do that with a folding design too.

Messing around with aileron and flap cables is not a given, with the right
design features.

I have read about some planes, (in the case I am thinking of, sailplanes)
that have the linkages mate in such a way that no tools are even needed.
Anyone know of what I am remembering?
--
Jim in NC

Glider guys do this all the time with 50 foot (15meter) or larger wings -
sometimes just one man assembly in less than 10 minutes. The newest
sailplanes have automatic control hookups and are very easy to assemble.
They are so easy to assemble that most pilots leave their gliders in
trailers at the airport and assemble them each time they fly.

Bill Daniels

"Andre" wrote in message
news:434670fc$1@newshark...
A few years back I was looking into the Valkyre. They were going to use
carbon fibre wings with linkages between the wing and the body so that all
you had to do was slide the wing into position and lock it. Two min job
per
wing.

Neat design, too bad they spent so much time trying to perfect the design
that they went out of business.


"Morgans" wrote in message
...

"George Patterson" wrote

I don't see how. You can pull a wing off a Cessna 152, 172, etc. by
removing
three bolts. With a Maule, it's four. Can't get much simpler than
that.
Of
course, you still need to mess around with the aileron cables and
flaps
linkages, but you'd have to do that with a folding design too.

Messing around with aileron and flap cables is not a given, with the
right
design features.

I have read about some planes, (in the case I am thinking of,
sailplanes)
that have the linkages mate in such a way that no tools are even needed.
Anyone know of what I am remembering?
--
Jim in NC