Hi everyone. First, im the guy who asked on facebook if this is the right forum for me, simple control liner fan of walt musciano and small planes, or if this place is only for super fancy competitive stunters. This generated an unwanted debate here, with some offended folks, so if you are one of those, i will say sorry again. I just dont wanted to be offensive with no one, in fact i like to use forums since theres lot of experience from old masters.
That said, i opened a thread some months ago on RCG about designing and building a .19 stunt trainer for a spare torpedo .19 i have. So i want to start a thread here also, but things changed from then.
Things in my country (Chile) are really bad now, from decades of sustained growing and development, now politically deeply polarized, making friends and family fight. We thought we were over it, but no, its the @#%##@ history of latin america. What old mans told us about sixties is exact same thing as now. Really sad. So then i stopped doing airmodelling for awhile.
Anyway, from now i will continue doing my stuff. Moved in the same city after hollydays (i live in Iquique, northern Chile) , now organizing my new shop, wich is in a basement, but big enough.
I usually fly first in the morning 1/2A planes and an Akromaster i built. The akro is fine flying with a Torpedo 15, but i want it wilder, so i put the torp .19 on it. That leaves me without a .19 engine, so i have to choose to build a trainer for the Torpedo .15 or a spare O.S. 25FP wich are closest one. Due to the fact i want to build a flapped stunter, the .25 seems to be the best idea.
With that in mind, i have to enlarge the project. In my experience a .25FP is good for pulling profile old .35 designs, so must have near 500 sq/in of wing area. So i used an old own design of a plane for a McCoy .35 for making the wing, and need to draw the fuse, wich still be a profile one, maintaing main nose and tail momentums defined on this plane, not the old one, wich is 1/3 of the length venturi to CG and 2/3 length CG to elev hinge line. Luckily, i saw the templates of the ribs while organizing new shop, so i cutted the ribs.
Next week i will draw the fuse and start building this plane, but need to finish organizing everything. Right now the pleace looks like someone throw a frag grenade inside.
Branko