Hi guys,

 Mr. Cunninghan has designed a very nice buildup profile fuselage. I build one three years ago, worked out great and love the looks of the plane in the air. I decided to use Mr. Cunninghams fuse design, used a shark 45 wing, magnum flaps, smoothie tail and rudder and the super chipmunk elevator. Plane flys great, different and of coarse ugly but its mine (I'm sure no one else would want it anyway) ARF are fun plane and I'm glad we have them but man isn't it fun making your own junk. Just wondering how many people have build Mr. Cunningham fuselage or complete plane? Have a great day and keep them in the air, Gary

I'm in the finishing stages of my first Mo Best, using the built up fuselage with 1/64th ply from the nose doublers back. I have another one almost finished (fuse that is) where the entire fuselage has 1/64th ply nose to tail, then the nose doublers on top of that. Either one has a very stiff fuselage.

Leester does a very nice job of building.

Is it generally agreed that 1/64 ply gives a better strength:weight result than 1/16 or 3/32 angled grain balsa on built-up profile fuseloogies?

Kim

Hi guys,

 Mr. Cunninghan has designed a very nice buildup profile fuselage. I build one three years ago, worked out great and love the looks of the plane in the air. I decided to use Mr. Cunninghams fuse design, used a shark 45 wing, magnum flaps, smoothie tail and rudder and the super chipmunk elevator. Plane flys great, different and of coarse ugly but its mine (I'm sure no one else would want it anyway) ARF are fun plane and I'm glad we have them but man isn't it fun making your own junk. Just wondering how many people have build Mr. Cunningham fuselage or complete plane? Have a great day and keep them in the air, Gary

Hey Guys,
This has always bothers me a little about built up profile.  I don’t want to step on peoples toes but a built up profile is as much work as a full fuselage model.  When I designed the Sig Fazer, it had a fuselage built up in the same manner on the first prototype.  I was trying to keep the fuselage really light and strong.  It worked but it seemed to me that it was self-defeating the concept of the simple profile fuselage.  Consequently, years later I found that laminating two pieces of ¼” balsa was lighter and stronger than a solid ½” plank of balsa and much easier to find in lighter weights.  Like I said I not trying to step on toes and this is just my opinion, but it is a least something to consider.

Later,

Mikey

Hey Guys,
This has always bothers me a little about built up profile.  I don’t want to step on peoples toes but a built up profile is as much work as a full fuselage model.  When I designed the Sig Fazer, it had a fuselage built up in the same manner on the first prototype.  I was trying to keep the fuselage really light and strong.  It worked but it seemed to me that it was self-defeating the concept of the simple profile fuselage.  Consequently, years later I found that laminating two pieces of ¼” balsa was lighter and stronger than a solid ½” plank of balsa and much easier to find in lighter weights.  Like I said I not trying to step on toes and this is just my opinion, but it is a least something to consider.

Later,

Mikey

Hi mikey,

You are correct (as usual! LOL!) in the extra time to build a *built up Profile* being very close to a full fuselage plane.  But, they don't allow full fuselage planes in Profile Classes.          

As an aside, I believe carving and hollowing blocks is the big difference in the two fuselages as regards to build time.

Bill

Hi mikey,

You are correct (as usual! LOL!) in the extra time to build a *built up Profile* being very close to a full fuselage plane.  But, they don't allow full fuselage planes in Profile Classes.          

As an aside, I believe carving and hollowing blocks is the big difference in the two fuselages as regards to build time.

Bill

Hi Bill,

I was thinking in my head (well maybe my butt) about all of the Green Box Noblers I built over the years with no blocks hardly at all.  They would built up really fast (some just over night) even with Ambroid glue.  My only point was a simple built up fuselage is just as fast as a built up profile. 

The molded parts are way cool and do speed up the process by a factor of three if the bucks are already on hand.  My molding bucks are from solid balsa blocks (or pine) and covered with epoxy, they last a long time.  I've used them many times for different models as well. 

Later,

Mikey