Sort of a Gee Bee at AirVenture 2014.

[Pop n Fresh]

Still should be interesting to see fly.

http://airventure.org/news/2014/140212_ ... hkosh.html

[GyvAir]

Very cool airplane/project!

"So I figured, you can never have too much horsepower, and since I had the cowling to fit, I just put an 1820 on it."

[imarai]

A Mexican registered Gee Bee Q.E.D. set a record flying from Mexico City to New York city's Floyd Bennett Field in May, 1939. The flight took 10 hrs. and 47 mins.

[AirFrame]

6000 lb gross, to carry two people. Ouch.

[sstaurus]

A Mexican registered Gee Bee Q.E.D. set a record flying from Mexico City to New York city's Floyd Bennett Field in May, 1939. The flight took 10 hrs. and 47 mins.

Ahhh, so maybe that's why the Gee-Bee in the animated Airplanes movie was a Mexican Casanova

[AirFrame]

Yes, although El Chupacabra was based on a Gee Bee Model R, not the QED.

[Pop n Fresh]

That Mexican plane is pretty cool. Where is it now?

[Colonel Sanders]

6000 lb gross, to carry two people

A WestJet ticket might be cheaper.

I'd love to fly a QED!

[Pop n Fresh]

Commercial flights are always less expensive than renting a 172. I bet that cute little radial is probably pretty thirsty.

[GyvAir]

If I read the Wikipedia page correctly and if it is in fact factual, there was only one Q.E.D. built and it is the one referred to above, ending up in Mexico about 5 years after construction.

Where is it now?

In 1972, the Q.E.D. underwent full restoration in Mexico City,[7] and is on display at the Museo Francisco Sarabia, Ciudad Lerdo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gee_Bee_Q.E.D.

Sorry about the misfiring wiki link.. don't know what's wrong with it. There really is such a page! Google "Gee Bee QED" and it will lead you there.

[2R]

Glad to see that it is ten feet longer and ten feet more wing than the original short coupled death trap.

[AirFrame]

Glad to see that it is ten feet longer and ten feet more wing than the original short coupled death trap.

Don't confuse the QED with the R model... Apparently the QED was much easier to fly. This latest model is only sort-of a QED, as the builder didn't have any plans to work from. The extra length was to accomodate the massive engine he had handy, which puts out something like twice the horsepower of the original but weighs 200lb more. CG considerations, etc. led to stretching, and extra wing and rudder were added for peace of mind. It still looks like a neat airplane to fly.

[GyvAir]

ten feet longer and ten feet more wing

I wondered about the statement that the Jim Moss version was 10' longer and wider than the original, as it doesn't look out of proportion at all. I read a fair bit about this reproduction last week after PnF's original post. What I gathered is that he built it largely to the same dimensions as the original Q.E.D., and that the original Q.E.D. was 10' longer than the earlier R models.

The doubling of the 10' likely came from misquoting this article: http://www.sportaviationonline.org/spor ... pg=72#pg72

“Though sharing the portly proportions and general appearance of the famous Gee Bee pylon racers, the two-seat Q.E.D. is almost 10 feet larger in both length and span than the R-1/R-2 and tips the scales at an impressive 6,200 pounds gross.”

According to this video http://youtu.be/PnnSb1QYFMk?t=54s they did have some basic structural drawings, but little else to go on other than photographs and looking at the original aircraft.

[GyvAir]

There are some good photos of Jim Moss's previous project, a Super Solution 400, on this site: http://supersolutionproject.blogspot.ca/

Seeing where you're going? Clearly overrated!

[Pop n Fresh]

That 400 must be for students that played a lot of flightsim before taking up flying. They don't like to look outside.