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N201TY 2IS RNAV13 approach w Garmin500 autopilot
VFR conditions; practice RNAV13 approach to Airglades, FL (2IS) using the Garmin 500 autopilot. Video capture of the G5, G500 and 430W displays.
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2022 03 19 Comanche 280 N9237P Stuart FL to Arcadia FL
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A Saturday morning flight from Stuart to Arcadia for the monthly "Pancake Breakfast" was complicated by a layer of Broken clouds at Arcadia. So, an IFR approach.... Ride along with us.
2022 02 10 SUA RW 30 Short Final night approach
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N201TY night flight from Sebring, FL to Stuart, FL. Smooth smooth air!
US Aircraft Expo Naples - KAPF Feb 05 2022
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Low ceilings on the Florida east coast, but nice VFR in Naples. Can't believe that the equipped price for a Cessna 182 is $650K !!
2022 01 02 N201TY KSUA to KOBE
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First flight of 2022. Clear, but with gusty winds close to the ground. Also, a 'cinematic experiment' using 3 GoPro cameras and an audio-recorder for the intercom / radio. Getting everything in sync took a bit of patience!
2021 11 KSUA Airshow
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The FRIDAY NIGHT opening show. It's always exciting to see fireworks in the sky! And, after the rains of 2019, and Covid in 2020, it's a thrill to have a LIVE show this evening!
Arcadia Pancake Breakfast Fly-In 2021-10-16
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X06 - Arcadia, FL. This little airport was voted the Best General Aviation Airport in Florida in 2020. Here's why!
2021 01 16 KSUA RWY 30 landing on return from Arcadia
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2021 01 16 KSUA RWY 30 landing on return from Arcadia
The Writing is on the Wall -- Messages from Camp Hope
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January, 2007. In the aftermath of Katrina, Habitat for Humanity established a temporary residence facility for volunteers. It was called Camp Hope. This former high school had been badly damaged, and the volunteers were actually encouraged to leave 'thoughts and memories' on the walls. Before I left, I took pictures. The wall art is all gone now, painted over, but the sense of spirit and hope ...
Building the Q2
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Photos, video and audio from my Q2 Experimental Airplane construction project 1980 to 1985.
N201TY 2020-12-08 Approach to KSUA Runway 30
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Crystal clear (but windy) December afternoon, approaching Stuart Airport, Runway 30, from the intracoastal waterway and the St Lucie River.
2020 10 06 N201TY Night landing
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N201TY night landing RWY 12 at KSUA Stuart, FL
2020 10 05 N201TY Night landing at KSUA
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2020 10 05 N201TY Night landing at KSUA
Key West (EYW) from Stuart,Fl (SUA) by Mooney
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Key West (EYW) from Stuart,Fl (SUA) by Mooney
Hey Kim, I built one of the first Q2s - N82SC - and was the first customer to fly with the non-laminar flow carbon fiber canard. It was my experience that resulted in them designing the reflexer. Also was the first to put a speed brake on it, something the factory later did as well. A couple of years later I turned it into a Tri-Q. I hope to make a video some day. Hope you don't mind me referring your EXCELLENT video. Wish I'd taken 1/10 of the pics you did. Thanks!
Great post from you, and Thanks for your compliments re mine.... Of course you may reference it. Meanwhile, Thanks for your innovation w the reflexer. It worked!! Well!! Best, Kim Singleton N729KS; N201TY
Beautiful airplane!
Great! I remember reading in early 80' the story of a gentleman, living in central USA, who built a Quickie Q2 to visit his sons on the west coast. I don't remember which magasine it was... Maybe Kitplanes, if anybody remember these two articles please let me know. Thanks
I always wanted to build one of these. Even bought plans to the Q1 when I was 16. Now I'm nearing retirement it might be time.
HAVE YOU GOT STARED YET,
Is this your aircraft? Or. A buddys?
Nice video Ken! From David H Q200
Btw.....incredible video!
Built on one for a couple years. Had to sell because I was getting married and financially I was not able to sustain it. Absolutely loved everything about it. Hand cut all the templates out of aluminum......
Great video.
Can a person still get plans or kits to build this craft?
The music is 💩💩😡😡😡😡
SO…WHAT became of it? Is it an absolute hit on the market? Reliable, fast..EASY to fly..?
A GREAT story! Thank you for sharing it. I'm glad you got to build and fly your dream.
Great video.... BUT the music drowned out your word's... almost impossible to understand...
Nice story and a well-done plane. I built an RV6A in the 90s, but before that in the 80s I got a ride in the original Q2 from Dick Sheehan in Mojave. An amazing plane - with a few quirks. Thanks for the memories.
Interesting idea. Two wings with different angles of attack so it won't stall.
Badass man. Thanks for the video and breakdown of the journey 🫡👌
my right ear is lonely
Any disadvantages of this design
That's amazing. So cool to see innovative designs like this. Thanks for sharing
Sweet! How many PPT hours did you have before flying this beauty? Was the 1st flight challenging w. Respect to trim, appr speeds? Cheers.
Beautiful aircraft, amazing lines. Job well done. Just curious, does anyone know what the maximum speed, cruising speed, and stall speeds are? I see that it was a 100 mph landing, probably due to smaller wing surface issues.
Neat work! Thank you for sharing this with the world!
Greate idea!!
If wings can be fixed on the body by hinges and under it supported by suspension and amortization springs system .it can simplify the adjustment and prevent cracking which can lead to extreme situation . and more comfortable in landing time . But i like this system first it was planed and constructed by some Russian student as diploma work .Form was different more slender .
Hi, Kim! Tom Stover here…a voice from your past! I clicked on your video not knowing who had made it! Very nice to hear your voice and see the story of your Q2. All the best…
I would really appreciate taking to you.
Hi Tom; This is a belated reply to your kind comments re the Q2. I'm lucky to have continued flying, now in a J model Mooney. I appreciate all the work that went into getting this plane certified, but there are lots of times I wish it were Experimental, so I could do the mods that would make it a better machine. Oh well; for now will just wish you Safe Landings (and good eclipse viewing about 10 days away!) Kim Singleton
ditch the ICE...go all electric...embrace perfection
It's great looking, but you didn't tell us how it flys, how it compares to other aircraft.
It's amazing..
Great show and tell, thanks!
Everything about this was perfect!
As a former aircraft maintainer, I appreciate the stubborn dedication that took so long and I love how she turned out. Gorgeous bird.
Nic vido. May I mak a suggestion? Background sound, including music must remain in the background.
i saw one at oshkosh this year! got me very interested in them
why is your voice only left channel?
No need for that shitty music , hard to hear the narration
Nice looking aircraft! I wish to learn more about it. Its flying characteristics and so on. Thank you for sharing w us!
superb all round
Really enjoyed this "record" of construction Kim. Thanks for producing it for us. A friend and I were considering buying a finished Q2 in the late 80s. We had the owner fly to our location and he took us up in it. It was kick in the pants but we couldn't reach a satisfactory deal for both ends of the deal. We did pay his expenses both ways as we had agreed to do. I really enjoyed the feel of the plane. I was a relatively new pilot at the time w/ maybe 300 to 400 hrs so it was really exciting. I finished my career three months ago (May of 23) w/ 40 years as a pilot and 22 as a Flight Instructor and about 3,400 hours. I've flown a TravelAir, a Stearman (through aileron rolls), an AT-6 (also through rolls), a Diamond DA-20, Remos Light Sport and I have .8 hr Goodyear blimp time and 2.5 hrs of Rotor time. The Q2 was as exciting to fly as any of those listed.
Great job and dedication sir.
¿do you really need the vertical?
Mechanics built our progress. You are a great one.
i am a big Q2 Fan....i think those are the neatest little airplanes .... i looked, and there is a small company in Minnesota keeping the Q2 kit dream accessible for people.. i would absolutely love one of those planes, but i would go with an HKS 700E engine, and put a large 12V LiFePO4 up front, behind the engine, in attempt to re-trim.
Очень необычный и элегантный самолет. Браво!
This brings back memories; thanks Kim. I built N82QQ in 1981-82 and flew it from Southern Cal to Oshkosh for the 1982 airshow. It wouldn't climb over 6,000 MSL so we barely made it over the continental divide next to Interstate Hwy 10 near Deming, NM. The engine broke in Wichita Falls, TX. With help from local mechanics, we pulled the heads and had a valve job done at the local VW Bug engine shop. Then put it back together and flew NE to Oshkosh. In one rain squall, the airflow over the canard was reduced by raindrops so much that it wouldn't hold altitude. I did a turn out of the rain into dry air so it would keep flying. In Kansas it wouldn't hold altitude due to bugs on the canard so I landed and scraped every bug off the canard. The airfoil on the canard was super sensitive; bugs and rain would reduce lift enough to make it descend even with aft stick. The Piper Cub had a 40 foot wingspan and a 65 horse engine. The Q2 had a 17 foot wingspan and a 65 horse VW-derived engine. It needed either a bigger wing or a bigger engine. Landings were very hot, about 95 Kts with a long rollout. Although taildraggers like to have the tailwheel pasted on the ground with back stick, this wasn't possible because no elevator. Brake application would make it pitch down on the runway, so it took a long time to stop basically by waiting. Because the wheels were at the end of the canard, 17 feet out, any yaw or touchdown on one wheel would make it try to spin around on the runway, at best groundlooping. In flight, the Q2 was unstable in pitch and roll; hands-off flying not possible. The elevons were near the CG, not at the end of an empennage, so it was pitch heavy. I sold N82QQ to the Los Angeles dealer for Quickie while I was at Oshkosh '82. I never wanted to set foot in it ever again. A C-172 was a much better airplane, more responsive, climbed better, took off and landed shorter. That guy crashed it at Corona airport. My buddy who built a Q2 crashed it but survived. The president of Quickie Aircraft, Tom Jewett, crashed his (that made the cover of Popular Science mag) but survived. He crashed his next experimental airplane but didn't survive. Great guy.
-KEN- KIM 👍
So some mods could make it better. bit longer center wing, smaller lower wing maybe? Looks aerobatic too.
Wow; thanks for the stories! "Yes" to 'hands-off flying was not possible' and the fast flat approaches for landing. Still, you took your Q2 into tougher situations than I ever experienced in daytime, dry-air, mid-west flying. Those were the days of being young (immortal?) and frugal. I'm back in certified planes now; a 1977 Mooney J.
@@kpsingleton You made the wise choice. There are old pilots and bold pilots but no old-bold pilots. Mooneys are outstanding. With homebuilts, there is a divergence between the image and the reality. Like marrying a model/actress, there are steep prices to be paid that aren't apparent before the marriage. At 23 years old, I believed the Q2 PR when it appeared on the cover of my trusted Popular Science magazine. That same aircraft crashed and was destroyed but that fact was never advertised. One of the Quickie partners, Tom Jewett, built another homebuilt which he crashed and died in on July 2, 1982. I was at Mojave airport when that happened. Another buddy of mine, Dan Mortensen, crashed his single-seat canard while racing at Reno. He lived but the plane was in bits. I am proud of anyone who actually built a Q2 (not dreamed about it), flew it, then put it away as they found that reality is divergent from PR. It's the Old Pilot maturity.
@@outwiththem Some people have put tricycle gear on them, which would help with the yawing moment on landing. The Q1 was a single-seat, 16 horsepower engine, and a 16'8" wingspan. Q2 was a mod on the Q1 but not an upscaling. The Q2 had a 16'8" wingspan (no change) and a 65 horse Revmaster engine. For comparison, a two-seat Cessna 152 has a 105 horse engine and a 33 foot wingspan. Hmm, which one will climb better? Yep, the 152. The Q2 had much less span and wing area and engine than a C-152 so it had to generate more speed to fly. That's why it needs long runways to take off and land. The Q2 also has an exotic laminar airfoil that loses significant lift in rain or when bugs hit it. Sure is pretty to look at, though. I later bought a C-152 with a taildragger Sparrowhawk conversion and a 125 horse engine. It was a much superior plane than my Q2, easier to fly, landed shorter, climbed way better, more cockpit room.
Enjoyed Video. Assuming you’re testing the Garmin Auto Pilot. Have enjoyed previous Videos especially the Q2. H Private SEL Retired in Lake Placid.
Watched your flight from Sebring, take off to south and left turn. Probably headed to Stuart ?? Nice flight in the Moony. Thank You for sharing. Private SEL. Retired in Lake Placid.
Not quite sure where you landed, Arcadia or returned to Stuart ?? Nice flight !! WH Lake Placid, Fl.
Very interesting. I have one in Microsoft flight simulator 2020 and its a great plane to try and master. Seeing the build process was very insightful.
Well Done !