Originally Posted by
unterhausen
OTOH, it's an unstable design. CG behind the center of lift of the main wing. Oops. The only way it would fly is off a cliff, but it would almost surely end up porpoising into the ground, which is an undesirable flight characteristic
Sounds like flugtag
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/20...lugtag/399689/
Half of them aren't even meant to fly. Ironically, some that are are the worst. Like the flitetest guys famous for giant foam RC planes did horribly.
The actual MacReady cycle-powered aircraft were quite something - remember reading a book about that in high school and later meeting someone who'd been part of the tech team. If I'm remembering correctly from the book, early on when they switched from team members flying to a professional cyclist they took him up in a Cessna for some basic flight training but quickly decided it was just too different from their giant creation and it was better to just learn to fly that directly.