Scrappy-The most sophisticated STOL aircraft ever built.

[Richard N]

Scrappy is Mike Patey's replacement for his great and unfortunately crashed Draco. He takes everything he learned from building and flying Draco to come up with an even better STOL aircraft. 60 plus videos at this point detailing every step.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSvaLpHLbIg&list=PL9OFkVHYEhoFUPV78e3hh0TVPMhYI73f9

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9dqTwUuKEM&list=PL9OFkVHYEhoFUPV78e3hh0TVPMhYI73f9&index=2

 

[Grey Havoc]

Wing Can Expand To Fly Really Slow For Short Take-Off And Landing

[Mike Patey] had made a name for himself by building high-performance experimental aircraft. In his latest project, he added a transforming wing that can extend its chord by up to 16 inches for low…

hackaday.com

 

[RetiredAFGuy]

Scrappy is a great white world demonstrator for a project to develop a super STOL aircraft for aircrew rescue and small team special operations insertion/retrieval. Patey's company has a contract for such development work.

The latest trick Patey has is to haul two electric motorcycles under the wings and have solar panels built into the wings to to store power to recharge the bikes. Sounds like scout team support mission aircraft if there ever was one.

 

[yasotay]

Hey thanks for this. really enjoy listening to the description of how/why he is building.

 

[Richard N]

Scrappy is at Oshkosh!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrFUdUuYRgQ

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbDe3xxX-As

 

[Richard N]

Scrappy Close Up

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF_8YL56uTM

 

[Richard N]

Mike Patey talks about Scrappy

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaWpTmYL1z0

 

[Richard N]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyuD01Exqp4

 

[Richard N]

Scrappy with new carpet installed for the forecast Wednesday night hailstorm that fortunately missed Oshkosh.

 

[TomcatViP]

There might be a lot of housewife around unhappy with the new setting of their living rooms...

 

[Richard N]

Scrappy briefing at Oshkosh 2021

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqTY446hXzs

 

[RetiredAFGuy]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyuD01Exqp4

Interesting when Mike mentions a "military project" that he can't go into detail about or do any videos of, but that the military project drives what he does with his other projects. White world testing for a grey world project prototype/demonstrator.

My guess is the constant speed prop upgrade for Scrappy he talks about in his video and going to twin turbos on the engine are military project performance requirement driven changes. And I would not be surprised to see an evolution to turbine power like Draco featured for even more performance.

Looks like Mike Patey has become a new Burt Rutan for DARPA/DOD.

 

[Richard N]

Mike hangs the bikes.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNGt1idiTPk