Hi Randy,
I have made the indoor models go left-right but
that flight pattern uses up valuable floor space. So
currently I am working on a right-right pattern. The
indoor sites that I've been flying in are not very
large, typically only 70 ft or so in width.
Your 21" design sound interesting, I think it
could work well.
Kurt
--- rreyno2001 <rreyno_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
> --- 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
>
>
>
Kurt Krempetz
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