Something for indoors

[Stephen Jones]

Well it fly`s

I managed to get out with some models today , not the best day of the weekend ,Grey and a little breezy Here in Manchester but still managed to fly lots of my models as did Paul my son .

It flys a lot faster than the foam version which was to be expected due to the extra weight , but it will also fly slow which is a good thing .

I wanted to see how the design would handle extra weight and test out the aerofoil i had design for it as the C of G is a lot further back than a conventional plane i figured that a conventional aerofoil would not suite this type of model as both wings provide the lift and not just the main wing .

I am waiting for the video to up load so it may be tomorrow before it goes live .

But for now i can confirm it flys very well .

[riverlandgirl.]

Brilliant stuff, Stephen, really glad it's all come togther for you. Looking forward to the video!

[Stephen Jones]

Cheers RLG ,

Here is the Video sorry it keeps going out of focus but my son was behind it all ,

promise .

[Stephen Jones]

I suppose i should get round to putting some wheels on it now , along with hatch catches .

And maybe a little extra art work who knows i may just scarp it .

As i have done the cad work now and built a new fuselage its a little longer to accommodate the change in C of G it also now has the smooth rounded shape to it .

[Richard Harris]

Stephen,

You must be chuffed with the final result? very different and it does fly well. Something like this should be published in the mag, I would most certainly build one.

Well done

Rich

[Stephen Jones]

Thanks Richard ,

"You must be chuffed with the final result?"

To be honest not really its just stepping stones to me i build this sort of thing all the time ,

I remember a friend of mine when he saw one of my previous incarnations fly he was jumping up and  down shouting it flys it flys , when he looked at me he said,  "i would be well chuffed if i was you" , But i was`nt  .

Well ,Maybe a slight grin , ............................ at him jumping up and down like a school Kid .

I am more chuffed about getting cad to work for me , now i can scale my plans to any size i want , alter any parts and better still print the formers out on my own printer . 

When i have finished this one i think i will dig out some of my old ones and cad them .

 Yes CAD is great . 

 

 

But no i am happy with it .

It does what i set out to do and flys the way i wanted it to .

 

 

 

Edited By Stephen Jones on 08/04/2013 23:35:28

[Stephen Jones]

Only one more indoor flying meeting left now before summer is here .

And i have been building more foam Fleas .

Is it trure even Fleas get Fleas .

Or is just me that gets Fleas .........

[Stephen Jones]

Boy has it been a month since my last post ,

Well a bigger plane needs a bigger build board you know .

And this Board measures 50 x 23 inches and double lined with cork tiles .

[Stephen Jones]

Well i decided to add some go faster stripes to it .

I Must admit i am happy with how it looks now .

[Stephen Jones]

Wow is it that time already

Yep indoor flying has started , so i will be getting these ready again , i was hoping to have others ready for a new season but time has sneaked up on me once again .

A Little Bit Special .

A Tiny Bit Special .

I have one more Tiny Tiny Bit Special which does not have wheels on to save weight . Me and my son had great fun flying the two of them together playing tag last year. You can guess which one i had to fly .

So i was hopeing to have one more ready by now .......

[Stephen Jones]

Here again ,

I tried to organize the build pictures only to mess up this tread , so i am re posting the build pictures .

Opps .

The body shape is carved out of insulation foam , too make up the height i stacked two 50mm blocks of foam on top of each other.

[Stephen Jones]

Then added fin and wing supports ,

Servos added after hollowing out .

[Stephen Jones]

Added rear wing to lower half of the body the hollowed to allow space for battery bay and speed controller

The wings are made from 5mm Depron and shaped to help airfoil

[Stephen Jones]

As it uses rudder to turn the wings need dihedral to stabilize it .

The rear wing is a little smaller then the front wing and it is important not to have any overlap of the trialing edge of the front wing over the leading edge of the rear wing .

This was a common mistake in home built flying fleas which caused them to stall out .

And the reason for there bad rep . The fact is they are very stable and forgiving in flight once set up correctly and Tandem wing designs are still being flown today but not the old design that we all think of today .

Also as the foam wings bend i needed to add the wing supports .

And i used paint on the body and felt tip pens for the wings .

 

Edited By Stephen Jones on 11/11/2013 23:32:38

[Stephen Jones]

Look at this

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Edited By Stephen Jones on 11/11/2013 23:53:36