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Post by **kittyfritters** » Thu Oct 26, 2017 6:15 pm

And, a few more photos from the contest.

Post by **kittyfritters** » Thu Oct 26, 2017 6:13 pm

Here are a few photos of Plain Planes built by some of the contestants in the One Design contest being prepared for flight.

Post by **kittyfritters** » Wed Oct 18, 2017 9:13 pm

At the O.F.F.C. meeting today there were three more Plain Planes for the contest. One was finished, beautifully, by Don Butman. Another, by John Buntin was nearly finished and the third, by Barry Dougherty, was in frame. At the flying session Stan Christopher and Bill Watson got theirs flying quite well. One of the pictures is of Stan's on the stooge being wound.

I got a partial video of one of Bill's flights before I had to leave.

https://youtu.be/u1j14zdZLdA

Post by **kittyfritters** » Sat Oct 14, 2017 12:03 am

Some of the kits provided to the O.F.F.C. members who will participate in the One Design contest at the end of this month have been built. All the kits were provided with a sheet of blue tissue and a sheet of white tissue.

Post by **kittyfritters** » Sat Sep 09, 2017 2:24 am

The OD-17 now has a name. It will be known as "The Plain Plane". The production kits will come with blue and white tissue.

Howard

Post by **kittyfritters** » Thu Aug 24, 2017 12:16 am

Testing it again at the O.F.F.C. meeting this morning. Was acting a bit funny until I realized that the rear of the stabilizer had become unglued from the fuselage. With it glued down had no problem getting it to turn in the room and fly up near the ceiling. One flight it landed on the back of one of the basket ball backstops. I knocked it down with a pole and picked it up while the motor was unwinding. I stopped the prop and it still had a few hundred turns on the motor so I hand launched it and it still had enough power to climb and make several circuits of the room. Flying on a single loop of 1/8" Tan II about 1-1/2 times the hook to peg length. Very satisfying! Unfortunately, no video this week since my "videographer" left the meeting before I discovered the loose elevator.

Howard

Post by **kittyfritters** » Fri Aug 18, 2017 3:50 pm

In spite of the suggestion, by one of the more mischievous members of the group, that I should have designed the model and passed out the kits without testing it simply to enjoy the chaos that resulted I spent some time testing it. The flying characteristics of the OD-17 indoors did not satisfy me. For a "generic airplane" (That's what one of the O.F.F.C. members said I should call it.) it required a little too much effort to trim. It had a bit of a tip stall in a tight turn when the power ran down. Suspecting that the 12% airfoil that is used was to blame I redrew the wing with a 10% airfoil and added a little more dihedral. I built the new wing, yesterday, and tested it this morning. Voila! Outdoors and indoors it simply flies. The design is finalized and as soon as I have the instructions edited on the plan the kit will be available. The first dozen kits are for the O.F.F.C. members (The contest is at the end of October.) then it will be available on my web site. There are two more similarly constructed models on the "drawing board".

Keep 'Em Flying!

Howard

Post by **kittyfritters** » Thu Jul 27, 2017 7:44 pm

I did manage to get a short video of the OD-17 flying with just enough winds on it to ROG. I was limited in the time I had because the Penny Plane contest was starting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBAZbaCDhok

More next week.

Post by **kittyfritters** » Tue Jul 25, 2017 8:16 pm

To be fair, those were some of the most outrageous quotes of the week. Maybe I'm just getting used to it since this is the fourth year I have done this. There seemed to be genuine interest from those between the ages of 7 and 13 and those above 40 years old. As for what that means for contemporary, Western society, I have some equally un-postable thoughts. They certainly need to be in a different thread although a forum such as this may be one of the more appropriate places to have such a discussion.

Post by **staubkorb** » Tue Jul 25, 2017 3:46 pm

"The best millennial comment was, "Doing something like that is like Chitty Chitty Bang Band old!"

One teenage girl asked me how long it would take me to build the model I was working on (Irish Jumping Bean). I told her about 10 hours. She turned to her friends and said, "OMG, ten hours for just one of those? I can't imagine working on anything like that for 10 hours."

The best one was the 8 or 9 year old kid watching me pin down the plans. "What's that?" he said pointing. The kid had never seen a thumb tack!"

Makes one want to cry, doesn't it... (my actual thought is definitely NOT postable!)

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