LOOSE LINES---PROBLEM SOLVED

Got this out of Model Airplane News Feb 1957. Fly up to 200 foot lines with a couple of 1/2 A's. Expand those loops and keep those lines tight during the overheads. What do you think???

Hey that does look like fun!

Monoline is simpler; it doesn't much matter if the line is tight or not!

If you've got one, I'd like to try it, but wonder:

1. What happens when main engine quits or runs out of gas first? On an upward line? Would it be a reverse hover? Is this a "Bi-Slob effect?"
2. What happens when the tip engine runs out of gas or quits in an overhead maneuver with zillion foot lines?
3. Why not use regular length lines, but have a third line that controls a pivoting tip engine? Would you need a coupled rudder?

Dave "I can crash anything" Hull
LA_Flyer

OK, who's got the plans????

I can answer one of these questions. In Brussels in 1959 I and some friends built a Flite Streak in 6 hours, and I flew it in the Criterium event. A couple of years later I was fooling around with a U-Reely, and let the lines out to their max. length while flying. When the motor quit the weight of the lines rolled the model in and it was lost! Very sad, I would have liked to preserve it.

Not withstanding the value of this strange design, I want to encourage you and others to keep trying to post pictures of your projects/ideas here. I have tried to post pictures. Some have been successful, and some not.

I learn from your ideas, so keep them coming.

LAST EDITED ON Nov-06-04 AT 10:54 PM (CDT)
 
>Not withstanding the value of this strange design, I want to
>encourage you and others to keep trying to post pictures of
>your projects/ideas here. I have tried to post pictures.
>Some have been successful, and some not.
>
>I learn from your ideas, so keep them coming.
>
>Floyd

I think the jury is still out on this one, at least for me. Maybe I'll be able to sit down and read the whole article in a couple of weeks when I stop laughing. No disrespect intended, it just caught me so off guard. I admitt this idea is way out there. Maybe as a twin it could compete with Paul Walkers multi engined plane. Yes the inboard wing is counter balanced to make up for the weight on the outboard wing.

Edit: The author says it was a desire to produce a model capable not only of handling extremely long lines, but of flying full pattern stunt, unhampered by a moderate wind. After you have felt out the model, you will find stunting a lot of fun. Huge vertical eights, for example, are a joy to behold. All in all the Strator-Liner is a model having very good flying qualities, and is quite out of the rut. (Authors words)

Speaking of Carl's wild designs, I have always wondered how a "Jumbo" would fly, anyone ever build one???? Or seen one fly?? It's a big sucker for sure. This plane has a similar outline, must have been a style he was drawn to...heh.
Eric V.