I Broke My Thing !!!!!

RknRusty wrote:Speaking of OS, I got a bunch of OS engines and an Enya today, Mostly .35s and a .40.  I'm gonna have to get you guys to teach me all about them.

Great Haul !!! O.S. engines are super !!!

Godsey3.0 wrote:Kim, that Thing looks wicked! Shame it crashed. I may try and build me one for a 10 La Diesel.


Rolla

Thanks Rolla!  It's been smacked before, and WILL be again.  It's actually a good-natured flying machine...just not in wind!  I knew better...but wanted to fly something that could drop into Wayne's little flying field.

Yeah, they work great! I used one for almost forever on my Sig Kadet Mk I: "Mud Dabber" ...up until it met with an unfortunate glider-towing incident...

I couldn't find a good photo of it, but it was REAL nice having way back behind the engine, and the .35 ran exactly like it did before the installation.

I've got a couple more of those remote needles stashed somewhere....probably be a good idea to put one on the Thing's O.S. 10 ...considering that even under good conditions, it lands by sliding along on it's nose...

Good to know! I wonder if OS's remote could be modified to fit "other" engines?

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Don't know why you couldn't use it other brands...guess it would make a good experiment.

The Thing is built from Model Aviation Plans...not sure which year, but in the 90's. You can probably find it in their directory. I just enlarged mine from the magazine copy, using the time-tested T.L.A.R. to estimate how big it ought to be.

I built three Things...the first, a smaller version than the yellow one, with my best-running .020 for power. It cruised around nicely with this little engine (much to my amazement), but it was just a little TOO serene. So, I put a Tee Dee .049 on it, since the firewall was plenty big enough.

I was then treated to an unbridled, vertical climbing missile that had me measuring it's fuel-on-board so it wouldn't just leave the county. And yes...I just HAD to cover it in Charcoal Grey Monokote...with no stripes to denote top or bottom...so it was ALWAYS a question whether or not it was banked toward you or away from you, though it's rapidly changing size usually gave it away. It STILL survives, and is slated for yet another T.D., but with one of Bernie's Throttle assemblies riding along to let me better choose my level of stress...



I built another smaller one with a fixed sub-rudder and elevons using a home-made sliding servo mixer for my Cannon radio, and powered it with an .010. It would roll faster than I could see (and this was fifteen years ago...when I could see a lot better!). I built it with a deeper "V" in the body and it had a nasty habit of snapping on landing flair and dumping my .010 in the dirt, so it got retired.



The currently flying yellow one WILL do some weird stuff when everything is right: If you dive it straight at the ground, and then quickly (but smoothly) pull in hard elevator, it will rotate to level, loosing all of it's vertical speed, then cruise away in slow, level flight. Weird stuff....

roddie wrote:They are "all" really COOL!!! There's a good chance I may have that issue of Model Aviation too...

Found it....December 1994 Model Aviation. Turns out, it was Thing III !