Small Flying Arts

I clipped the gear off ot it. Only saved 0.84 grams but the reduction in drag was stunning. However it does look cuter sitting on the gear.

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I took it to the OFFC meeting least Wednesday and started some low powered trimming flights. When it was trimmed to turn ...

The first side went on easily enough.

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The second side was more work. I took it outside to mist it with Krylon.

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Like most 1930s plans the patterns for the canopy were something you had to work out for yourself.

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These are the skins I printed for the wing and stabilizer. This was relatively simple.

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The fuselage, not so much. I had to print several bond paper test images to test the fit.

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This is the smallest model that I have wet covered.

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I got back to work on the wings. I did do a slight redesign but it is still going to have bamboo wing tips as the plan called for. This is not my first experience with 1930s building techniques.

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As you can see this model needs substantial dihedral.

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As you saw in my last post I changed the design to half former construction and cut new parts. I pinned down a top and bottom keel of 1/16" square. Then I pinned down right angle tools to the plan at the former positions. Working from back to front (to keep from trapping a right angle tool in the ...

I intended to build it as described in the magazine article but then I read the article. When you first look at the plan the fuselage appears to be built on a crutch. I have no problem building a fuselage on a crutch, I've even designed a couple that way, but that's not exactly the way he did it ...

With a Peanut contest coming up I decided to build one of the Herb Weiss minute models as a Peanut. Now, why I thought this was going to be a good idea is beyond me currently. I chose the F2A, Brewster Buffalo, as the one to build. The first thing I found was that despite their small appearance and ...

The Ascender is in kit on my website. The Side Effect is another matter. Although I have gotten prototypes to fly decently it's performance is not at the level of the Skinny Bomber and Ascender. I will not be putting it into kit.

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The Ascender is in kit on my website.

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Here is a video of the Ascender flying indoors at the last OFFC meeting. I had !/8" rubber on it to fly outdoors but no one would go outside to video it for me. (They were busy trimming models for next week's contest.) I had to keep the winds down to keep it out of the lights.

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