EricJ Posted July 20, 2022 Report Posted July 20, 2022 Ran across this and was salivating over it. If I had space for it somewhere I'd probably buy it. My recollection is that Al Mooney either designed or contributed heavily to the design of these. https://www.platinumfighters.com/inventory/1944-culver-pq-14/ 2
MikeOH Posted July 21, 2022 Report Posted July 21, 2022 Pretty cool. But, something a bit unsettling about flying a TARGET drone!! He's got a good sense of humor about it, though: nose art on the other side: "Just shoot me now..."
carusoam Posted July 21, 2022 Report Posted July 21, 2022 @Culver LFA probably knows the most about Culver’s around here… -a- 1
Culver LFA Posted July 21, 2022 Report Posted July 21, 2022 3 hours ago, carusoam said: @Culver LFA probably knows the most about Culver’s around here… -a- I do resemble that remark, as well as @Keith20EH who also owns a Cadet and M20E. The PQ-14 is a larger/faster evolution of the PQ-8 which was based off of the Culver Cadet, Al Mooney designs. I do have archive materials on Culver PQ8 and PQ-14 aircraft but would have to do some research to see how involved Al Mooney was in the redesign work for these aircraft, pure speculation but I wouldn't be surprised if there was a much larger team of engineers available to Culver around the time of the PQ-14 due to the war effort.
Mooneymite Posted July 21, 2022 Report Posted July 21, 2022 (edited) Hard to believe Al had much input since it has oleo strut landing gear! Real Mooney designs use biscuits. I wonder how come TBMs don't have 'em those...and backward tails? Edited July 21, 2022 by Mooneymite
Fly Boomer Posted July 21, 2022 Report Posted July 21, 2022 3 hours ago, Mooneymite said: I wonder how come TBMs don't have 'em those...and backward tails? You know how the French are. 1
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