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Online Tim Wescott

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My new super-duper ride :)
« on: August 30, 2014, 12:58:11 PM »
Airplane made to satisfy three needs: one, I'm fresh out of planes for TUT testing, and don't want to hack up my competition ride to fit a TUT in quite yet; two, I've been working on the TUT instead of building planes, and wanted to pump something out quick; and three, if I'm using solid foam wings anyway, why not make a high-wing?

The plane is roughly Cessna C-37-ish.  I must have hit it right, because folks at my RC field recognized it.  The wing is made from Gotcha Streak cores from Phil Cartier, rounded on the ends with a sanding board and rough sandpaper.  The engine is a Tower 40 at the moment, but will get changed for a throttled OS 46 when the TUT goes on.  The aerodynamics are, more or less, scaled-up Sig Skyray (I scaled up the tail area proportional to the wing area, and scaled up the tail moment arm proportional to the square root of the wing area).

It's covered with SLC, but I didn't read the directions closely enough, so it's covered with wrinkled SLC.  I'm not going to worry about it.

For me, it was a lightning-quick build.  For most people, 30 days is pretty slow.

I'd be out test flying it right now, but it decided to rain today so I'm home working.
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Re: My new super-duper ride :)
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2014, 01:22:42 PM »
Tim,

Nothing wrong with that model.

Has many traditional lines actually.

Could have improved the graphics a bit, but the "back masking" works.  LL~

I actually like the model.

Good for you!  H^^



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Re: My new super-duper ride :)
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2014, 02:44:32 PM »
Its different Tim.

Carrier?
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Re: My new super-duper ride :)
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2014, 02:47:51 PM »
It's meant for testing some electronics, but with a hook, a throttle, and an Andorran flag, I could compete in the local 40 profile carrier contest.
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Re: My new super-duper ride :)
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2014, 03:17:14 PM »
Here ya go.

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Re: My new super-duper ride :)
« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2014, 08:43:09 PM »
Carrier/stunt contest in a few weeks at the Auburn Airport, there's time if you can bolt in a FP 40 and controls !
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Re: My new super-duper ride :)
« Reply #6 on: September 03, 2014, 02:21:00 PM »
Just got out and flew this thing.  It flies way better than it should.  I suspect it'll suffer in windy weather, but it was certainly flying well today.  About the only part of the pattern that it was conceding was the hourglass -- I've never been able to do a decent hourglass on a flapless plane.
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Re: My new super-duper ride :)
« Reply #7 on: September 03, 2014, 04:07:01 PM »
My Coyote did decent hourglasses. For a flapless plane, anyway.
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Re: My new super-duper ride :)
« Reply #8 on: September 03, 2014, 05:26:39 PM »
Quote from: Randy Powell on September 03, 2014, 04:07:01 PM
My Coyote did decent hourglasses. For a flapless plane, anyway.

I may learn to do better hourglasses with this thing, but for now it does them the way my Skyray and my Streak did -- two distinct corners at the bottom, and a single big corner on top.
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Re: My new super-duper ride :)
« Reply #9 on: September 03, 2014, 06:59:39 PM »
Someone asked for dimensions -- so here's a drawing.  This is pretty much just my working drawing, updated to match what I actually built.  It's not something publishable.

Wing cores were Phil's Gotcha Streak 500 cores with the tip extensions.
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