Unidentified Airplane

[Elwyn Aud]

At a VSC 10 or so years ago. Looks to have a full flying stab. Anyone recognize it?

[david beazley]

I think it is a Roy Clough design "Nervous Nelly".
Here is a link to plans

http://www.outerzone.co.uk/plan_details.asp?ID=1546

[Dave_Trible]

I think that's right.  The only copy of the British Aero Modeller I own has that construction article in it.  Don't know where the mag is but seems like '66 or '67.

Dave

[Mike Keville]

Boy, I'm stumped!  Don't recognize that one at all.  It may've been at the VSC the year I was "exiled' in Maine and missed the whole show.

David Beazley may be right....tho' I'll have to confess I'm not familiar with this one.

[Mike Anderson]

Originally published in MAN - 3/62

[Mike Keville]

At any rate, a welcome change from the usual gaggle of Jamisons and Humoungii. 

[Steve Helmick]

Easy to see why it was "Nervous"...the BC is obviously too far forward.  Sorry, Robert, I just couldn't resist.  Steve

[Mike Keville]

Helmick, you're a rabble-rouser.   

[Jo Ann Keville]

 @ Mike Keville ,You could have gone to that VSC,  but you chose not to. So you were not exiled in any way.

[Steve Helmick]

Helmick, you're a rabble-rouser.   

It looks like an early version of the Nemesis combat design.  Steve

[Elwyn Aud]

Thanks for all the replies. I spent part of the holidays looking at old photo CD's and found several I had forgotten about.

[John Craig]

Power ?

.049 ?
.09 ?
.15 ?

[pipemakermike]

The plan specifies a McCoy 09 Diesel

Can anybody guess who built it an which year it was at VSC

[Steve Helmick]

I have no evidence at all, but I'm thinkin' it was Jim Thomerson's. He usually comes up with something weird (this is) and uses small engines. I hate small engines (defined as under .15 cu.in.), most expecially ones that have plastic carby bodies that break far too easily. What did I win?  Steve

[Mark_Gerber]

Hi Elwyn,

It's mine.  It's a Nervous Nellie.  I built one when I was a kid and powered it with a Fox .15.  It flew fast and was marginally stable.  I built a .35 sized one with a rubber band wing attachment when I was in college and had that for many years.  I eventually gave it to Dick Wolsey when I moved to Colorado in '96.  This last one in your photo was an attempt to replicate the original.  Power is a Cox .15.  Took it to VSC and flew it just for fun.  As noted you have to add a lot of nose weight to keep them stable and they do inside loops a lot better than outsides.  Mine have not been great fliers, but the Nervous Nellie certainly has a unique look for a control line airplane. 

Mark Gerber

[Bob Kruger]

Boy, I'm stumped!  Don't recognize that one at all.  It may've been at the VSC the year I was "exiled' in Maine and missed the whole show.

Mike;

No such thing as being exiled to Maine.  God's country.  My brother Eric who works at Bath Iron Works, said they got a foot of snow last night, temp was right at 5F, wind chill at -15F.  Called it "brisk".

Nothing like it in the world...

Bob

[Steve Helmick]

And they say we have chitty weather! It was sunny and in the lower 50's today. Sweatshirt weather for the California guys, T-shirt weather for Alaskans. It depends what you're used to.  Steve