e-Glider Event at Little Halden Sunday 26th May
Hopefully the weather will allow our e-Glider event to go ahead this Sunday. The pilots briefing will be at 10:45 (the website previously showed 10am) .
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Okehampton Aero Tow Sunday 2nd August
Okehampton club has invited us to their next Aerotow on 2nd August. See their website at http://www.okehamptonmfc.org.uk/?page_id=798
5Metre K7 build update from John
The K7 continues to grow slowly and the bags of laser cut parts are starting to diminish. After doing all I could to the fuselage I started on the tail end. The fin is integral to the fuselage so a rudder was next and fairly straightforward, made of balsa and 0.4. ply. A double horn… Read More »
Old Phoney – Part 1 ideas taking shape
I thought I’d take a break from designing gliders and build a (powered) vintage classic along the lines of the Junior 60, something light and slow but 4-channel rather than 3. I found a plan for the 4 channel Super 60 but it’s boxy fuselage shape and angular fin just didn’t ‘do it’ for me… Read More »
Old Phoney – Part 2 the wing build
Like most of my designs, the Old Phoney is a combination of ideas gleaned from other designs with a handful of my own thrown in for good measure. The wing shape is a cross between Black Magic and PD Parasol but the construction is completely different. Also the ailerons are much bigger and almost full-length.… Read More »
Old Phoney – Part 3 the fuselage
Just as the wing was my first without span-wise sheeting – this is my first fuselage without sheet sides. But, as it turns out, there’s something rather satisfying about longerons, stringers, and all the fiddly bits in between. And when you’re REALLY enjoying a build, anything that makes it take longer just means the pleasure… Read More »
Old Phoney – Part 4 covering and completion
There’s something rather satisfying about the first time it all comes together, wings, fuse, legs, and tail feathers, and pinning the control surfaces on. Pre-covering photos seem to be a bit of a tradition: I covered the wings in Diacov 1000 from Sarik Hobbies which is an “Extra-lightweight iron-on polyester fabric” probably rather like Solartex… Read More »
David’s o/d glider build part 3
I um’d and ar’d over how to hinge the flaperons and eventually decide not to – to just let the film be the hinge. Multi-tasking was never my strong point so rather than try and wing-cover and hinge all in one go I decided to top-hinge the flaperons with a narrow strip of film first,… Read More »
Mediator build, part 2 – When is a fuselage not a fuselage?
Since I left the hobby around 1980, glider fuselages seem to have been on a diet – so many these days have extremely spindly bodies with hardly a curve in sight. I must concede, though, that the word ‘fuselage’ does in fact come from the French word fuseler meaning ‘shape into a spindle’. I’m sorry… Read More »
Mediator build, part 3 – completion
I decided to try dyeing the balsa before covering with translucent film and chose pale pink to complement the ‘heather’ pink Solarfilm I’d bought for the underside. I should have known that pink and yellow makes orange. Will orange and pink really GO together?? Rather than use plastic hinges I thought stitching might be nice.… Read More »