"Nest of Dragons" builds a Easy Riser

Saturday, November 11, 2006

seat for a Easy Riser

When I saw the video of the learning flights of William "Bill" Lishman on his own site (www.williamlishman.com) I saw Bills legs go from side to side. Euh ... it kind of scared me. But ... I knew already that video on the site of Mr. John Moody. There I saw a kind of seat and Mr. Moody's legs did no longer shake from left to right.

I wanted his a seat! I got a email from Mr. Moody and it tells that the seat is not so hard to make if you have contacts with persons who work with boat sails. I got a picture of the used seat and all seemed ok. But ... on the video of Mr. Moody I saw him slide back and forwards on that seat. I didn't like that idea.


Mr. Moody was talking before about some swingseat that Mr. Mauro was working on. I am not sure if that was the seat I saw in the Easy Riser Yahoo discussion group. But ... there it was! The most easy to get seat. It is a paraglider seat that hangs on its usual clamps to a new strap that hangs on the topjoint of the wings. It is a very solid point to hang on. All you need to do is find some kind of strap that can take the weight (calculate also the g-forces!).

The only thing I didn't see on the picture were extra shoulder straps. I saw them in the FLY AWAY HOME film. They are used to carry the glider. I guess I will go for a combination of paraglider seat and shoulder straps.

Moody's additional set of plans

Mr. John Moody has two sets of plans for the Easy Riser. One is about the installation of a engine, the other is about a remarkable landinggear that is able to land like a crab when there is a crosswind.

Both were 25$ when I bought them. Paying them is easy! Mr. Moody send a email to me from Paypal (Paypal is a kind of money transfer system on-line). You simply click the link it gives you and register yourself (you need VISA or another credit card). Once you are registered it all goes easy.

I have now both sets of plans. BOTH ARE WORTH HAVING! The set of the engine has no need for extra help. They drawings are very clear. The set about the landinggear is OK, but ... without pictures a bit hard to understand. Of course ... Mr. Moody installs a CD with the needed pictures in the package. Now no problem at all!

By the way ... very clever thinking to land like a crab. Great job, Mr. Moody.

Getting the money there to order

I am not a American, so paying the money for the order is not that straightforward. My bank needed more data to be able to send the money to Mr. Larry Mauro.

Mr. John Moody gave me the following data and my banc no longer had problems getting the money there. If Mr. Mauro does not change his banc-account you will be able to use the same.
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swift code: SNTRUS3A
international routing number: 061000104
Larry's account number: 1000047867220

Bank address: Sun Trust Bank
6745 N. Church Ave.
Mulberry, FL 33860
USA

Bank phone number: 863-644-1922
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DO NOT FORGET: at the same time send the hard copy of your order to Mr. Mauro. If you didn't get it by surface mail, you probably got it by email from Mr. Moody in his first email with all those pdf-files with information. Just fill in in and send it to:

Larry Mauro, P.O. Box 374, Mulberry, FL, 33860, USA.

Friday, November 03, 2006

Why buying a Easy Riser?

Who did dream as a kid to fly? Who wanted to share the air with those birds? I guess many of us did. Many still think it is not possible. They think it is too expensive or think it is too demanding. Well, when I was a kid it was not. Magazines were filled with rather very basic airplanes that flew not so fast, but ... they flew good. They didn't have those fancy options like the bigger airplanes, but ... that made them very easy to use. "Better 1 button you know how to use than 100 which you don't know"

Sadly ... things changed and the small airplanes (ultralights) became more and more advanced. They became speedy, they got lots of options, they became ... EXPENSIVE! Many will see that the small airplanes are no longer low-budget.

It is sad to see that people who just want to leave the ground and buzz around the local church tower (just kidding!) only can buy those advanced airplanes. They would be super happy to have such a old-timer. But ... they are no longer available.



Sorry, I wrote a mistake. They WERE no longer available. I recently found out that the airplane from which it all started is back into production. The EASY RISER of Mr. Larry Mauro is back! Really! Go see www.pioneerflyer.com . Yes, it is that glider which you know from the movie "Fly Away Home".

Did you know that it was the first motorized ultralight? Mr. John Moody was the first to place a engine on this bi-plane flying wing hangglider. From that moment on he was able to get to heights from which he was able to soar. This idea evolves a small airplane with a landinggear. Now the ultralights were really born! And people were using this Easy Riser to learn how to fly.

First from a small hill, then higher with the help of a small engine (or higher hill) and later they too placed a landinggear and a bit larger engine and had their own ultralight.

It was a easy to make homebuilt, not expensive at all, easy to store because it could be dismounted and folded together and ... it was not using a lot of fuel with that small engine. That sounded good at the old days. Euh ... is it different now? I guess not. I am sure that many are still looking for a airplane that fits such a description. Why search further? It is still there!

I am a true believer in BULM (Basic UltraLight Motorized). It is a word I invented. In my website I made a directory off the BULMs I know. Euh ... sadly ... it is a short list. Not much choice! What makes this Easy Riser so special to me? Well, it is a slow flyer which gives it a slow landingspeed and that comes in handy as a beginner pilot. It can easily be stored in a garagebox. I will even try to store it when the car is INSIDE my garage. Just hang it dismounted on the ceiling. Its flying wing design gives a good-stall-behavior. And ... its use is not that costy due to the small engine it needs. All in all ... sounds perfect.

I will dedicate this blogsite to the progress of the building and flying of this airplane so others can better understand the Easy Riser and be able to better see its advantages when compared to more modern airplanes.