I am very pleased to see a blog just for Quickie Q-1's.
Last June I picked up a Q-1 that was built, and taxied in the grass, then the builder, a paraplegic (and pilot), just quit. I have about 20 hrs in a Q2, most of it off grass, and I have an idea why he may not have continued. I look at this Quickie when I think things are going bad around the hanger, and have a new outlook on how good someone like me, who can walk, has it.
After being built the plane went to the owner's/builder's day care business for 40 years,... outside! In Minnesota! It looked horrific! After sanding the paint and feather fill off, I found all but one crack to be superficial. The engine is almost perfect internally. Absolutely all of the control linkages and hardware have been removed and will be replaced. I have removed the firewall ply and stainless and one longeron. New ones have been made. I will make new control surfaces and load test the canard and wing.
It may not be cost, or time effective but I am inspired by a man in a wheelchair building a Quickie. I am compelled to finish this plane and fly it, God willing, (and this is not meant to be flippant).
I will be looking into all of the great information here and hope to learn from a lot of Quickie people here.
Regards,
Lex
www.BrewsterCorsair.com