Re: New Glider

From: rreyno2001 <rreyno_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:10:46 -0000

--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, Kurt Krempetz
<krempetz_at_...> wrote:
>
> Hi Randy,
> Stan Buddenbohm called me this evening and told
> me your son did an excellent job at Eloy flying DLG
> with a broken collar bone from a bike accident the day
> before. Wow! Congratulations!!!
> I've been doing some testing in a 41 foot ceiling
> site with some DLG. My first couple of times trying
> to fly DLG indoor were discouraging, but my last time
> out I made some progress. I was able to get a 18"
> wingspan, which weighed about 4 grams to the ceiling,
> transition and glide back to the floor. The times
> were not great, but for now I am just pleased to get
> the basics down. All models were fixed wings. I
> kept the high point thickness at the launching tip
> .0625" and used some carbon fiber to reinforce the
> launching tip/dihedral joint. I (like Stan and Ihsii)
> do not throw the model with a peg. Jim Buxton set the
> National Record (throwing Javilin style)with a big
> fixed wing model at Kent, so I think a fixed wing DLG
> is doable at Kent.
>
> Kurt
>
> --- rreyno2001 <rreyno_at_...> wrote:
>

Thanks Kurt, I've got a 21" design with a V tail which might work.
I'll modify it to a fixed wing and give it a try here at our indoor
meet. What is the flight pattern? On the ODLG the airplane curves
left on launch and then transitions to a cross wind right turn so I
assume the same thing happens with an indoor version?

Randy
Received on Sat Jan 20 2007 - 10:11:38 CET