Okay, the Fly-A-Thon snuck up on me this year. Someone mentioned it over on the CEF last Monday, and I realized that I hadn't built a plane for the F-A-T this year. So, I threw this together real quick. Due to family and work, I didn’t get to play much with this other than throwing it together. Due to weather and stuff, I wasn't able to fly today, and probably won’t tomorrow, so I have a couple of things I didn’t hurry to finish off. But I should find time to fly next weekend for the rain-out date for the RM Fly-A-Thon.
This is for a Cox PeeWee engine, so it's smaller than your Mother's Beginner's Ringmaster. Initially, I drew out a wing with a wingspan of 16 inches. That looked too small. So I drew out a wing with an 18 inch wingspan. Well, maybe for a TD .020 engine, but I don’t think for a PeeWee. So 17 inches it is. That gives a wing area of just under 70 sq.in.
First I cut out all the wood and made a kit:
Fast forward about four hours, and you get this:
I still have to calculate where I want the leadout guide, but that’ll only take a few minutes to install. I just got my CEF .020 backplate yesterday evening, so I initially built this with one of my Skycopter conversions, but now I’ll go back and retrofit with the CEF Cox .020 backplate before I fly it. Man! I LOVE these little backplates! (see the thread here:
https://www.coxengineforum.com/t12638-pee-wee-horseshoe-back-plate). I may even have some time to make a checkerboard trim for the wing.
Oh, what is it called? Since a Beginner’s Ringmaster is .049 powered, I call this my “Beginner’s Little Brother’s Ringmaster”. I plan to fly it on 20' lines for a start, and adjust as necessary.
Mark