Re: A Rainy Day Project on the Hill.

fredvon4 Tue Aug 14, 2018 1:09 pm

Kim I am sure I have it but save me the time to search...send me your physical address...I have a LOT of SLC I will never use...happy to send you a yard or two

Super Lite Covering..as far as I know Phil Cartier of Core House is exclusive out let...big plus is..the stuff is very durable as well as light and surprisingly low cost

additionally...Bobby Mears in Lubbock Texas has a series of Combat Plane covering techniques using SHRINK plastics like you see on flower baskets and stuff... very lite weight and totally fuel proof...BUT he cheats and builds the wing... then takes the shrink stuff and with a heat sealer/cutter makes a sack to put the wing in...the just shrinks the sucker to be 100% encased

The there is Larry Reneger who suggested Using SLC, Mica Film, or other lite Doculam products OVER heat shrink Polyspan and ZERO dope...saving weight, being fuel proof and built in glossy finish

Kim Tue Aug 14, 2018 2:54 pm

Cool! Will Do!! Thanks !!!

getback Tue Aug 14, 2018 4:42 pm

It may have been a lot of work/fun involved But the plane is looking GREAT ! Nice techniche i haven't seen this trick before Thank You for the insite Eyebrows

i like the way you did the silk and sand method on the balsa parts it has been a while since i have done it this way and brings back some good memories And the glory of cleanup Beer Cheers

Kim Tue Aug 14, 2018 7:19 pm

getback wrote: It may have been a lot of work/fun involved But the plane is looking GREAT ! Nice techniche i haven't seen this trick before Thank You for the insite i like the way you did the silk and sand method on the balsa parts it has been a while since i have done it this way and brings back some good memories And the glory of cleanup

Thanks man! The driving force behind all this is the memories (real and sometimes 'augmented'---I can get confused) of prepping for all those ballpark Sundays. My Breezy Hill Buds and the S.M.A.L.L. Fun-Fly crowd give me constant jolts of this stuff with the projects they show up with!

**RknRusty** Tue Aug 14, 2018 9:26 pm

Great project. I hate when I get behind on my forum perusing, but this one was fun. Thanks for the entertainment.
Rusty

Kim Wed Aug 15, 2018 7:10 am

Thanks Rusty!

I've also missed entire threads here, and then found them later on. This has been a fun little diversion that came out of the blue, and I've highly enjoyed the sporadic work sessions toward getting this little plane flying, and ready for Fall S.M.A.L.L.!

It's almost ready to rock now, and the first time in a long time that I finished a plane in a week! A whole lot fancier than I could build with my 14 year-old hands back in the day, but maybe it'll last a bit longer than those I built in a single evening!

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getback Mon Sep 18, 2023 6:59 am

Just got caught up in reading this adventure again and was wondering how the firebrand flew? Am sure you did at S.M.A.L.L. am sure it in the S.M.A.L.L. adventures but but but ?? Very Happy

Yabby Mon Sep 18, 2023 7:31 am

great build Kim! and a week seems really fast to build such a great looking plane. looks like it was born to fly.

I admire your build skills and flying skills. both CL and RC. enjoy flying it. cheers

Kim Mon Sep 18, 2023 5:54 pm

Hey Guys,

THANK YOU for the kind words!

The Firebrand turned out great, and is still flying behind it's QZ .049.

As I may have mentioned in a previous note, most guys like to hang a high-powered engine on these wings, but I was going in the opposite direction. I wanted a quiet, slow flyer that would STILL stay out on its lines for loops and most other moves, just like the first one I saw back in 1969 or so.

The original that I witnessed had a muffled engine which backed down the RPM's, but the Firebrand would still pull off graceful loops and wingovers, with no tendency to roll in.

I made an exception to this when I received Rusty's Traveling Engines, installing the RR-1 on the Firebrand. Well, it was a whole DIFFERENT deal, and had a bunch of fun blasting it around the front yard.

It now has its QZ back, and I haven't done much front yard flying lately, so maybe I need to get the Firebrand out in the cool Fall air.

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