REFLECTOR:Moving the non-flying Velocity

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At 10:08 PM 7/14/03 -0800, you wrote:
>Ok...I give up....I will never complete my Velocity 173 RG as long as it 
>is in a hangar in Colorado and I live in Alaska...soooooo...I am going 
>down to put it on trailer and truck it 3500 miles to my house here in 
>AK.......wide load and all...I am wondering...if I gut it and remove the 
>engine and mount if I can move it like a rocket on the launch pad in an 
>upright position.....was thinking of building a 'box' out of 2x10 lumber 
>to 'mount' on the firewall engine mount holes and setting the Velocity 
>fuselage upright on that and strapping the 'box' and gear down to the 
>trailer for the long haul..thus no wide load problems....
>   Does anyone have any idea if the firewall can take the stresses of this 
> road trip? I BELIEVE it can but do not know.... Moving it ...one way or 
> the other,   THANX    Jeff Clough

If you think making 3500 miles as a wide load is hard, imagine 3500 miles 
without being able to go through an underpass.

Make your box, but bolt it to one side of the main spar.  The wing attach 
points are the second strongest points on the airplane.  Make a cradle for 
the nose (attach to the canard attach points) and put it on the trailer 
sideways, nose forward but rolled 90 degrees to the side.  That way you're 
only 14' tall, not 20'.