Power was originally a Kawasaki 440 FA with 2.6/1 PRSU and 64 X 32 Tennessee Propeller Inc. wood prop. I considered this to be a bit under powered and have changed to a 50 hp Chaparral G44BW liquid cooled, reed valve, 2 cylinder inline 2 stroke using the same reduction drive swinging a 66 X 34  Tennessee Propeller Inc. wood prop. This is an excellent engine that I would never hesitate to use again.

The gear are my own design, using springs because I deemed the bungee gear inadequate. Cad drawings of my gear design are available by e-mailing a request to ddmorrow@flash.net  including your name and RagWing number if available.  If you can accept Autocad DXF or DWG files or Cadkey PRT file, these can be e-mailed to you for free however there will be a $3.00 (US) printing and mailing charge for snail mail. A similar gear design is also available for the Preceptor N3 Pup.

    Weight is of major concern in this plane, especially at the tail. Most "Specials" that I am aware of have an aft CG if flown by a pilot over 180 or so lbs., and require some ballast up front. Roger Mann has said that his prototype was built under legal ultra light weight limits (USA), but the plans and materials have changed considerably since, and getting one in at under 254 lbs. is next to impossible.

On May 31, 1998 RagWing Special #067 took to the skies for it's maiden flight with pilot Frank Folbre doing the honors. There were some minor problems, but Frank reported the plane flew very well and felt solid and stable.  The horizontal leading edge was  raised 3/8" along with adding a static port to correct erratic airspeed indications, and a rudder trim tab.

Just Lifting off
Past the spectators
Into the wild blue yonder
 

I first flew it on  July 26th, 1998 and found it to be a bit under powered with the Kawasaki 440A but with good handling characteristics. The engine was then changed to the Chaparral. The flying qualities are much the same as described by Mike Kindon in the Builders page.
 
 

For more information and building tips, please see the  Builders Information Page.

To subscribe to the  RagWing builders E-mail list run by Carlos Gurr, send a e-mail to ragwing-requests@lists.zyx.net and put "subscribe ragwing" (without quotes)  as the message body. This is a very helpful list for those people finding builder support lacking from the designer or to just get a lot of helpful info on all the RagWing designs.

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Builder (click to e-mail)	Picture (click to see full size)
Don Alexander RWS #007
Jerry Bunner RWS #008	no picture available
Trent Pickett RWS #025	no picture available
Mike Kindon RWS #070
Dennis Macklin RWS #214 & #219 Partner Orin Wilkins RWS #217
Bob Evenger	no picture available
Carlos K. Gurr
Ken Adams RWS #268	no picture available
Everett Perkins RWS #306
Dennis Frey RWS #302
Dan Parker RWS #345
Conrad Dove RWS #393
Don Lapinsky 16259 Septo, North Hills, Ca. 91343-1306
Larry Jarrett
Jeff Faith

Revised March 17, 2000
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