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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Elwyn Aud on January 01, 2014, 05:15:02 PM
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At a VSC 10 or so years ago. Looks to have a full flying stab. Anyone recognize it?
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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
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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
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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.
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Originally published in MAN - 3/62
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At any rate, a welcome change from the usual gaggle of Jamisons and Humoungii. LL~
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Easy to see why it was "Nervous"...the BC is obviously too far forward. LL~ Sorry, Robert, I just couldn't resist. VD~ Steve
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Helmick, you're a rabble-rouser. LL~
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@ Mike Keville ,You could have gone to that VSC, but you chose not to. So you were not exiled in any way.
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Helmick, you're a rabble-rouser. LL~
It looks like an early version of the Nemesis combat design. VD~ Steve
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Thanks for all the replies. I spent part of the holidays looking at old photo CD's and found several I had forgotten about.
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Power ????
.049 ?
.09 ?
.15 ?
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The plan specifies a McCoy 09 Diesel
Can anybody guess who built it an which year it was at VSC
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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? 8) Steve
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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
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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
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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. y1 Steve