Leroy
I EXPECT it to be one of my better gliders! There's something about all those extra curves that just makes the air do great things.
We had a few days of really calm air here in the evenings. The big problem with night testing is that the gliders start changing shape as soon as you go outside. The only thing that seems to work is to do a quick test glide and then a fairly hard launch before they warp too much to fly anymore. My next best plan is to wait until late February when we have another local meet and that's just beyond my patience right now!
Bill Gowen
Decatur, GA USA
----- Original Message -----
From: LeRoy C Cordes
To: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Indoor_Construction] Glider repair
Won't you be surprised if this turns out to be one of the better flying
ones ? Think you can duplicate this building technique if necessary ?
<Grin>
WOW ! Outdoor testing at midnight !!!!!
LeRoy Cordes
AMA 16974
Chicago, IL
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 14:37:50 -0000 "Bill Gowen" <wdgowen_at_earthlink.net>
writes:
> Tose who know me are probably familiar with my fondness for building
> with CA. Until recently I used CA for glider construction. A lot of
> glider builders seem to think this is a good practice. Probably for
> high ceiling, highly stressed gliders it's a good idea.
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> For my low ceiling gliders I've gone completely to Duco for
> building.
> A new advantage to this just came up this week. I was out testing a
> Cat II glider at midnight a couple of nights ago and lost it in the
> dark. It flew between a couple of neighbor's houses and
> disappeared.
> Rather than taking a chance on getting shot, I left it until the
> next
> morning. When I found it, all the surfaces were warped into really
> interesting but not very efficient shapes. I took some acetone and
> completely disassembled the stab, wing and rudder from the fuse and
> separated the two wing panels at the dihedral joint. A little
> ironing
> with a Monokote iron got the panels back into a reasonably good
> shape
> and I'll put the model back together today. This whole process took
> maybe 15 minutes - a lot better than having to start over again.
> Hopefully the repaired glider will be usable when I get it back
> together.
>
> Thanks to Kurt for the gluing advice and to Jerry for the ironing
> idea!
> Bill Gowen
> Decatur, GA USA
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LeRoy Cordes
AMA 16974
Chicago, IL
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