Gary, I'm kind of a hacker at indoor rubber and had a buddy give me a
Firefly and Butterfly (they appear to be the same plane but different
colors) - they have been a blast and I have had a lot of fun with them.
They can be flown in your living room, a Northwoods Bar, a bar-b-que
joint and almost anyplace you have the nerve to try it (in the right
northwoods bar it can even get you a free drink<G>).
LeRoy Cordes
AMA 16974
Chicago, IL
In God We Trust
On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:11:40 -0800 "TheGoofster" <goofymyman_at_verizon.net>
writes:
> Thanks for the info, Gary. I'll go look at the sites you mentioned.
> I'm
> mostly interested in just making up my own designs and seeing it I
> can get
> them to glide (see
>
http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/Indoor_Construction/photos/browse/c8d3?c
=
> ). I don't know if I have the patient to build a real indoor plane
> like
> this (I'm mostly just a tinkerer) but I like the idea of the
> prebuilt
> Butterfly.
>
> I got started in all this with a book I got as a teenager (which I
> still
> have, somewhere). Its called something like "Building and Flying
> Hand-Launched Gliders" (it has a very yellow cover and, if I can
> find it,
> I'll give you the actual title). It not only explained how to build
> a nice
> outdoor glider but it went into great details about aerodynamics and
> how to
> trim it, plus how to scale the basic plan up and down. Anyway, with
> this
> book as an inspiration, I started doing both simple balsa designs
> and
> designs that combined typing paper with balsa (remember typing
> paper???)
>
> Steve
>
> P.S. I live in the Long Beach, California area, just south of the
> Long Beach
> airport. I've noticed the Boeing 717 assembly building is empty so
> I'm
> hoping they'll have a fly-off in there.
>
> [snip]
> Steve,
>
> Try a Mini-Stick. They are 7" span, 10" long, with 1/32" square
> wing
> spars,
> 1/64" sheet balsa prop blades and powered by rubber that looks like
> it came
>
> out of the waist band of your shorts. They fly in circles small
> enough to
> fit inside your apartment, the main limitation is the ceiling. Try
> to find
> a
> gym to fly in. Let us know where you live, some of us may fly
> nearby. You
>
> can't do much glider flying under a low ceiling anyway.
>
> Here is the official class description, sections 24 and 13:
>
> http://www.modelaircraft.org/comp/0506Rulebook/indoorFreeFlight.pdf
>
> Here is a plan and description:
>
> http://www.indoorduration.com/IndoorDurationFrame.htm
>
> Here are more plans:
>
> http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~hak/freeflight/plans.php
>
> Here are kits for Mini Stick and slightly larger Parlor Planes:
>
> http://www.indoormodelsupply.com/
>
> Get a Butterfly already built and ready to fly:
>
> http://www.pennvalleyhobbycenter.com/rubber/Ikara/Images/butterfly.htm
>
>
> Gary
> [snip]
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
LeRoy Cordes
AMA 16974
Chicago, IL
In God We Trust
Received on Tue Jan 02 2007 - 07:38:00 CET