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Free Flight 101
Cribbs74 Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:00 am
My son and I built this a week or so ago, it's since been covered. He told me what he wanted and I put it together. It was fun! I still need to adjust the trim. It has flat wings with no airfoil so we shall see how well it does. It glides well as is but, I wonder what it will do under power.
It has Indra's little pee wee up front.
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It has Indra's little pee wee up front.
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Re: Free Flight 101
nitroairplane Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:18 am
Very cool Ron!
Glad to see you and your son are enjoying the pee wee!
Glad to see you and your son are enjoying the pee wee!
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Re: Free Flight 101
Cribbs74 Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:35 am
nitroairplane wrote:Very cool Ron!
Glad to see you and your son are enjoying the pee wee!
Yeah Indra, he loves it. He liked the red tank. His first Cox engine and hopefully not his last!
Of course all mine will be his when I croak!
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dankar04 Sun Feb 26, 2012 10:38 am
Best luck with it. Dihedral in wings help FF models. Great little plane for PeeWee is Midwest Sniffer. BMJR sells them.
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Re: Free Flight 101
Mike1484 Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:23 am
Put a bellcrank on it and fly it control line . It will not be stable with out the dihedral. The Sniffer is a great first freeflight model and is nice and stable with it's polyhedral wing.Your model is very nice but it will last a lot longer as a control line model.
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Re: Free Flight 101
Cribbs74 Sun Feb 26, 2012 3:05 pm
Mike1484 wrote:Put a bellcrank on it and fly it control line . It will not be stable with out the dihedral. The Sniffer is a great first freeflight model and is nice and stable with it's polyhedral wing.Your model is very nice but it will last a lot longer as a control line model.
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Dihedral it has, airfoil is does not. Basically it has flat sheet balsa wings. The theory is since it's light it will be like the little gliders without airfoil.
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civillian Sun Feb 26, 2012 3:06 pm
cribbs74 wrote:Mike1484 wrote:Put a bellcrank on it and fly it control line . It will not be stable with out the dihedral. The Sniffer is a great first freeflight model and is nice and stable with it's polyhedral wing.Your model is very nice but it will last a lot longer as a control line model.
Mike1484
Dihedral it has, airfoil is does not. Basically it has flat sheet balsa wings. The theory is since it's light it will be like the little gliders without airfoil.
Maybe sand one into it Ron, or keep it "ebenezer" style as it will require less space to fly.
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fredvon4 Sun Feb 26, 2012 3:21 pm
Sig Mfg as in www.sigmfg.com
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airfoil sanded BALSA 1/4 X 4 X 36 AF SHEETS for $4.05
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has you next fater n son home brew wing materiel
http://www.sigmfg.com/cgi-bin/dpsmart.exe/MainMenuFV5.html?E+Sig
airfoil sanded BALSA 1/4 X 4 X 36 AF SHEETS for $4.05
they also sell castor oil, good dope, tissue and a host of other things dinky plane folks need!!!
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Re: Free Flight 101
Mike1484 Mon Feb 27, 2012 8:46 am
The Jetco R.O.G. has a flat airfoil and they can fly for over two minutes on a rubber band and a plastic prop.An airfoil does help a bunch but flat wings can also fly .That is a nice picture of the little boy and his plane. It is so refreshing to see a kid with intrest in the hobby and building /doing something other than sitting in front of a T.V or computer .Good luck on the maiden flight...
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Re: Free Flight 101
Cribbs74 Mon Feb 27, 2012 9:19 am
Mike1484 wrote:The Jetco R.O.G. has a flat airfoil and they can fly for over two minutes on a rubber band and a plastic prop.An airfoil does help a bunch but flat wings can also fly .That is a nice picture of the little boy and his plane. It is so refreshing to see a kid with intrest in the hobby and building /doing something other than sitting in front of a T.V or computer .Good luck on the maiden flight...
Mike1484
Mike,
He is more ate up than I am. He gets me in trouble with Mom as he doesn't know when to shut it off!
Much like me, he finds the tele and vid games a waste of time.
The model is 95% done. It's covered and painted up need to do some trimming and it's off to the field. If it crashes so be it! We will have a good laugh and rebuild!
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