what are you building

Startted a Barnstormers scratch built from plans, going to put a sand cast Fox 35 fnish in silk and dope, try and find some time period wheel for it just because I want to for the fun of it .
Joe Gilbert

Hi Joe,
Trying to finish up a Werwage Vulcan. Going slow due to finishing up some other people's projects. Now I need something to fly! hahaha
Would like to build a Mk I Barnstormer myself!
Bill <><

Still Stuka, Brodak Accentor, SIG Mustang.......hmm what else is going on.....just got a Bi-Slob.....Brodak Martin Mauler....
I will finish one SOME DAY

oh,yeah , just finished a Flite Streak....and repairs to 38 Special.

"I will finish one SOME DAY"

LOL - same here. I'm (still) trying to finish a Phoenix 2 I started I can't remember how long ago, plus a Fancher Twister I started at least a year ago, and an Umland AA-Sr. I just started last fall. I hope to get the Phoenix and AA-Sr. done in time to fly them this summer. Meantime, I've got the Smoothie to fly, and the trusty Ukey...

I just started two Sig Twisters a kit and a plans built. The plans built twister will be a Fancher Twister. I plan on building them at the same time (figure I can make twice the number of mistakes that way). They'll be Twister Sisters. The stock Twister will have an OS .35 on it and the Fancher Twister will have a Brodak 40.

I've cut all of the pieces for the wings and plan on building one component at a time. First up is the wings which I hope to have completed middle of next week.

Could someone please post the Idiot's Guide to doing Squares!

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>Could someone please post the Idiot's Guide to doing
>Squares!
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>(edit for spelling)

Ron B.
F4Fguy

Fly level left,do a five foot 90 deg corner up,fly straight up,fly a five foot 90 deg corner right,fly straight upside down,fly a five foot 90 deg corner down,fly straight down,fly a five foot 90deg corner left,fly level,repeat once.*
*the above pre-supposes counter-clockwise flight,reverse right and left for clock-wise flight.

Scratch building a profile stunter(I Hope)...42" wing,39" nose to elevator,21" stabilizer, adjustable leadouts, weight box,trim tabs on wingtips, fibreglass pushrod. Covered with scraps of leftover monokote, body will be painted with sig..probably white.
Engine may be a Super Tigre C.35 stunt....or a Leo .28.
Weight so far is 18oz.
Time put in so far is about 5 hours. Not much more than an ARF!
Hope it flies.
Norm

Wow Norm, good looking airplane! Be sure to post some finished shots...

God bless!

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>Could someone please post the Idiot's Guide to doing
>Squares!
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Idiot's guide for doing the Square Loop (Assuming you are off by yourself with no one to help you)

1. Start by flying level about 10 feet high.
2. After passing downwind, go another 20 to 30 degrees and give it up.
(don't try to make a blinding corner the first few times, just make it smooth and controllable.
3. now you are going straight up. Keep going up until you get about 60 degrees high.
4. Give it up again, and make a smooth turn towards inverted flight. Fly 40 to 45 degrees inverted.
5.give it up again, and make a smooth turn straight down.
6.almost immediately give it up and pull out in level flight.
7. your first few squares won't be very square. keep practicing it.
8. the square is also a timing manuever. Going up, count 1-2-3. Going inverted count 1-2. Gouing down count 1-1.5, pull up! The reason you want to pull up at 10 feet is to give yourself some safety margin before you hit the ground.

Sometimes you will crash. Fix it and try again. An ARF Flight Streak would make a good stunt trainer, since it is cheap and you don't have a lot of emotional investment in it. People have quit the hobby because they crashed an airplane that they really loved.

I haven't started to build these yet but I thought it would be interesting to do. I took the old plan drawings from the TF flite streak and had them blowm up 266%. This yields a plan for a flite streak that has a 56" wingspan (original plan is 1/2 size or 21 inch span). It has a 48 inch spar with two 4 inch wide tips. The fuselage went from a 3" to a 4" wide plank and the chord of the wing went to 12 3/4" (approx) and the flaps are now 3" wide instead of 2" on the full size streak. the wing area went up to just shy of 690 square inches! I plan on using an la 46 or a modified fox 46 for power.

Interesting note: The tank scaled up looks to be about a 2 ounce tank!

I currently am completing a Randy Smith SV40 for a RO-MAG 36 and a Walter Umland Barnstormer kit for a Fox 35. I haven't decided what the next big pile of wood will become, probably an Aries or an Argus.

This puppy weighs 43 oz and flys pretty well. Took two flights to get it close- had some right roll, and of all things, it turned out a bit nose heavy. So I opened up the handle spacing and moved the pushrod closer to the hinge to get more control. May still need some tip weight, but we'll see.

Some minor mods from the last version. I built the tail up to save some weight and added a bit of reinforcing to the nose to soak up the crush on those forced landings! Building up the tail saved 1.5 oz. of tail weight, which allowed me to use a chip muffler instead of the stock one, saving another 2 oz. Lighter and lighter.

Phil, is this the one I see advertised in Flying Models?? Does it have the "I" beam foam wing? I know I'm tempted to get one.
As to building, I am almost finished with a MAN 52 Nobler, about 50% done with an UHP Imitation for profile, doing repairs to two Barnstormers, painting an SV22(?), almost ready to paint a Super Chipmunk after repairs and recovering, finished a 1/2A Little Devil, and getting ready to install the stab on an Ambroid Ares. Meanwhile I have three other kits sitting waiting for their time on the board, Cobra, Skylark, and Olympic MK6.

Ty, this is the plane in the ads. I try not to push product,
'cause I'm in this for the fun of it. If we're ever at the same contest(Brodak maybe?) look me up. You're more than welcome to fly it, if I haven't crashed it by then. It's VERY different to build, but not at all hard for a veteran. MUCH quicker to assemble than ribs. And, it flys with a different feel than a flapped ship. Much lighter control forces, but very pointable yet quick to respond.

Unfortunately is doesn't solve the problem of the 4th corner in the hourglass. I'm always turning 10 ft too high because I'm afraid to wait.

Well, here are the two projects I've got going at the moment:

The first is a scratch built (by Ron's definition ) original design U-2C profile. Approx 470 sqares, 42" span, flapless, Magnum .25GP for power. Based on the numbers from my F-8 Crusader profile that has been posted here before. Landing gear is kinda fun...

The other is my Brodak Legacy. A few mods to the fuse, fin and cowl. Going for that "Reno racer" look. ST.60 power, carbon bellcrank, ball jointed throughout. Fuse as it sits with engine and tank installed is 25 oz., wing ready for filler is about 15 oz. Looking good so far, I guess.

God bless!

Nice looking planes, Mike! That landing gear on the scratch-built is... um... unique!

That Legacy is killer! Way cool!

Thanks for the kind words Tim!

>That landing gear on the scratch-built is... um... unique!

That plane is a Stand-Way-Off-and-Squint scale Lockheed U-2C. The real airplane has gear like that. Works great for a profile, and something a little different.

God bless!

Whooa! Way cool Mike! Can't wait to fly them Should be back in SOCAL soon. BTW just finished a foamie trainer for my buddy and a TF combat streak. Take care and God Bless. Rob

PS Tell the SD guys I said hi!