Finally, an STC we can all appreciate!

No Photoshop necessary; it's been done.

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My dad happened to see it at Grants Pass, Oregon, around 1999 or so, and snapped this photo. This was a one-off experimental called a "Taylor Royal T," first registered in 1983. It combined a Mooney M20E cabin, landing gear and wings, Bonanza tip tanks, and a Beech Musketeer vertical tail. IIRC it had a big engine, either an IO-520 or IO-540.

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I wonder if this accident report from 1996 might explain the tail-ectomy.

Sadly, there was another accident report ten years later.
 
Not only that, they also put the wings on the wrong side. At least they got the nose wheel placed correctly!

:stirpot:
 
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eman1200 said:
I’m offended.
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Why?
It's finally starting to look like a Bonanza. :cool:

A left side door, parachute, red carpet, free bottled water and it'll easily be mistaken for a Cirrus. :D
 
Stingray Don said:
Not only that, they also put the wings on the wrong side. At least they got the nose wheel placed correctly!

:stirpot:
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Ok, so I put the wings on top, and here are the results.
Actually, that looks pretty good!!


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You can’t improve on perrrrfect
 

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@eman1200 Why did you only chaulk the frunt tyre? And this is now a high wing thread, unless you have a pair of ladies on each wingtip (4 total) your plane is banned.
 
^^^^I want whatever that guy is smoking!
 
That revised Mooney tail isn't swept back enough, give it the Skylane swept angle and you'll have something. Although I'm not sure what good the Skylane swept angle actually is....but it's swept and that's all that matters LOL!
 
texasclouds said:
@eman1200 Why did you only chaulk the frunt tyre? And this is now a high wing thread, unless you have a pair of ladies on each wingtip (4 total) your plane is banned.
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Duh...so it can't weather vane in the hangar!

And maybe the mains are velcro'd :)
 
Sinistar said:
That revised Mooney tail isn't swept back enough, give it the Skylane swept angle and you'll have something. Although I'm not sure what good the Skylane swept angle actually is....but it's swept and that's all that matters LOL!
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It stabilizes the 4th axis when flying in the 5th dimension, but I bet your CFI never told you about that.
 
SkyDog58 said:
You shouldn’t need an STC to fix a bent tail. That’s a repair, not an alteration.
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The Moonie Mod requires a saw-zall and two fist fulls of pop rivets. Only $1399 for the 2x4x8 pine adapter rail (cut to fit, deck screws not included).
 
For what it's worth, should have bought a Comanche! That's about what the finished product in the Pilwats photos almost looks like. Then you'd at least have the bigger cabin!
 
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