I Spotted an experimental that looked to be based on a Taylorcraft.

It had:
plain Flaps
Sticks
toe brakes
Taylorcraft wings with wood spars
150hp 0-320
shock style gear

I know there are alot of variables with experimental aircraft.. (setup, rigging, angle of incidence ext..)
But!.. anyone fly something like this? how was it?

thanks-

You didn't see it in Montana did you? There is a guy there who has made a few of those (Terry something...)T-Craft wing, Cub style gear and tail feathers, even the paint job borrows from both designs. Sure makes sense to me, the best of both. His fly real well I hear anyway.

There's a guy around here who has one under construction- 150 horse, "riblett" (?) wing ribs, sticks, etc. Unfortunately I'm not sure if any progress is being made on it or if it'll ever fly. supercub site has some posts a while back about a Cub with T-Craft (24012?) wings -- faster than a cub wing but not as STOL.

Eric

There have been two Taylorcraft based 150HP experimental's built in my area. One with flaps, one without. Both retained the stock gear with stinger type tail wheel, used the stock control wheels and both had metal spars with stock airfoils but squared off slightly drooped tips. Same guy built both aircraft. They are both very impressive aircraft. The flapped one could get off quicker (but not by much) but it could land much shorter. Both had standard 56 pitch props and can cruise at about 145 MPH.

Now the downside....

They are NOSE HEAVY and DO NOT fly as nice as a 85/0-200 powered Cart. The guy who built these airplanes sold both of them (the non flapped one after it was built, the flapped one during construction) to build one with a 0-200.

Brian.

I flew in a T-craft owned by Shawn Coleman of Harper, OR. It had flaps and I am not sure of the engine but it seemed it was bigger than what it came with. His handle on here is tcraft. Maybe I can give him a PM to get on here.

A friend of mine in Anch built one with a 032 and Cessna 206 fowler flaps, moved some stuff inside, moved the gear fittings, had 10" Navajo wheels with 29" Airhawk tires. Worked real well until the tide came in with a storm surge and he was on a to steep beech in the middle of the night??
Still has the engine, prop, cowl, and tires!!
Was a really nice performer, was about 30 mph faster than a cub. Used at least 10' more to get in the air tho!!
GT

I built up my '46 Aeronca Chief from a basket case as a homebuilt , !60 hp, metal spar, droop tips,
38' wingspan. It's an amazing performer on floats and skis. Gets out real short and cruises about 100 mph
on floats,120 or so on skis.............never tried it on wheels. Never saw any need for flaps, you can side slip
it in pretty much anywhere. Stall speed is mid-thirties.
Been flying it since 1995, have 600 + hours on it.........I just love it !!
There's a couple pics in my gallery.

If I'm not mistaken, Alsworth has one up in AK as well. From the other Tcraft guys I've talked to that have seen it, it sounds awesome!
JH