Small Flying Arts

Definately an unorthodox flier :o Best of luck with building and trimming!
/Andrea

Yeah, it's amazing how quickly a week turns into months and years... Time to use the good wood.

I well remember when Mike brought out this idea. It's too bad that he can't physically see the continuation of this dream even tho we did exchange a number of comments about it and many other topics. Not sure how many others were aware of this idea, but I sure am!

Pete

Slowly making progress, defining the wing outlines and rib spacing. If I can get all the main outlines planned out and roughed in, the next step may be to build a simplified test bed (without all the fussy house/fuse details) to work out some kinks and see if it even has a chance...

Yes, rubber-powered, and right now I'm only planning to power the main engine by either a motorstick or some other arrangement attaching to the tail boom, and just have the other two freewheel. We'll see!

Hi Wayne, great project! Rubber powered?

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[i]*peeks into forum, looking for activity*[/i]

It feels wonderful and strange to be posting on SFA again. Thanks to everyone who got the site up and running again! It seems there's been a lull in activity here the last couple weeks so I'll do my small part and try to get some content going.

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Several years ago I was chatting with Mikey Heinrich about some potential new projects, looking for something unusual or "different." Our circular conversation landed on a discussion of Jefferson Airplane and the perfect, insane project presented itself: a fiction flier from the album cover of "After Bathing at Baxter's." (Henceforth known as "Baxter.") Mikey/Jane/Hudsonduster/etc. prodded me every once in awhile about building it but there was always a "tomorrow," or "next week," from me, and despite my enthusiasm, I didn't have much confidence I could actually pull it off. Tomorrow never came and Mikey passed away, and here we are. Well, I've decided it's time to finally forge ahead and hopefully make this special project happen and see if we can't get it in the air for 20 seconds.

I'm really hoping to have it finished and in the air by November for the 50th anniversary of the album, but I'm a slow builder so we'll just have to see where the year takes us. So, without further adieu, I present the beginnings of "Baxter."