Small Flying Arts

I’m so sorry about what happened to Dave. Please accept my deepest sympathies during this sad time.

Well, I've been out flying a few times this year. Over the winter, I built four stick planes, a replica SFA World Tour Flyer, a 12-inch wing span Cloud Tramp, a 57-Minute Wonder (Flying Models—March 1992), and a Poly-Wog (OuterZone plan oz4371). The flying sessions have so far been mostly trimming s...

Cold, dark and snowing outside. What to do? Make a prop!

Out flying again. The weathe was sunny temperature 60F with near calm and variable wind. I was quite happy to have another good December day for flying. The Delta Dart and AMA Dart were up an flying for a few flights each. The motor knot on the Delta Dart became loose from the lube. Lost the rubber ...

Out flying again. The weather was sunny, temperature 55F with wind calm to 10 mph. No report on the previous flying session, but here is the latest. The Delta Dart (18 inch span - Outerzone plan oz7931) was flying better with a 9 inch loop of 3/32 rubber in place of the 1/8 and a left thrust adjustm...

Went out flying again today. The weather was sunny, temperature 37F, and wind about 5 to 15 mph. The catapult glider was first up again. Had a nice flight on the second of four flights when it caught a weak thermal and then landed about 40 feet short of a tree line. The AMA Dart was next. Still had ...

Went flying with a few planes. I'm still a beginning flyer on a small field, so lots of trim work and just a few nice flights. Sorry, no photos. First up was a catapult glider which is a half-scale Bostonian of my own design built to check the stability of the Bostonian. It was flying OK, but there ...

I've been checking the site for the Side Effect listing. Looks to be an easy build with the laser cut parts.