Bi-slobbin'

Thought you might enjoy a couple of shots of my Bi-Slob in action last weekend. Always draws a crowd!

LAST EDITED ON Jul-10-03 AT 09:29 AM (CDT)
 
Great photos! What's it got for power. It almost looks like an old Champion sparkplug sticking out.

40th anv. fox 35 enya no 3. I have 2 foxes and the slob is the only plane they will get a run in .< seems to be a good match > and clunk tank uniflow .

LAST EDITED ON Jul-10-03 AT 11:05 PM (CDT)
 
Wow! A see-through Slob! I like it!

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Btw, mine runs more consistently since I did away with the uniflow & went to a straight "RC type" plumbing, only without the pressure line. I think it was because the Slob moves so slowly the clunk somtimes needs to fall to the middle of the tank or sometimes even to the inside of the circle to stay with the fuel. ie: When hovering or flying little bitty circles overhead.

Yours is MUCH prettier than mine! This picture was taken when it was new, it's even eglier now

Is that tarted up, or painted?

I don't think anyone, with the possible exception of our gone-but-not-forgotten Floyd C., would consider it "tarted up". It's Rustoleum & Ultracoat. It looks pretty much the same from the bottom. I spent a lot of time with scissors precisely snipping out the snazzy skull & bones (about 15 minutes.)
Ugly bugger, but it's a real hoot to fly.
My favorite trick at the moment is doing consecutive low inside flops, working it down until it plops in the grass at a near dead stop stall. It sorta plops in the grass with the engine running, then it starts moving again & takes back off. The first time I did it was accidental I beefed up the gear in mine so I could do touch & goes in the grass, it seems to put up with this flop n' stop business pretty well so far as well.

Can I add that at the recent NSW State Championships, Steve was slobbing around and I overheard one of the F2B guys--can't remember who, probably just as well--ask, 'has that guy got that thing under control?'

A fair question from someone who had never heard of a Twiddle, let alone seen one. Steve's flights on a practice circle were an absolute hoot.

Nils,
That is why I always tell everyone to use a standard metal tank...as I show on the original drawings.. don't get fancy.. keep it simple.. it works. I don't know what is on the kit drawings, since John hasn't sent me the kit he promised..guess I have to remind him.

But since I have laser cut ribs for the "Slob" and a full size fuselage template, construction doesn't take long.

I have always used the standard metal tank with one up and one down venting, but on occasion have to cap the bottom vent. NO PRESSURE!!
Bigiron (Another slob) Got my sixth one cut our in parts.

What's a twiddle? For that matter - what other interesting, out-of-the-normal maneuvers can you do with a Slob?

I used to think a "Sabre Dance" was named after the Cossack thing - two people flying in the same circle, playing skip rope with each others' lines.... Then I found out it was named after the usually fatal gyrations that happen during an out-of-control high angle of attack landing attempt in early jet fighters..

the tank in this one ( as the first two )is a sullivan clunk tank ,set up as uniflow no muffler pressure. though i have run pressure at times . as is if it goes up a bit rich ill hover more,if its a bit faster loops and bunts are the go(and any thing else i can think of) ALLWAYS FUN! stephen.