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Freedom Flyer's sailplane hangar
andrew wallace:
hi tracy
keep the advice coming :clap: managed to get a bit more work done today, i was able to lower the height by 2 inchs so the model is a lot lower to the top of the fuslage
i've just cut the lighting holes on one side at the minute i'll try and get the other side done later :D
Freedom Flyer:
You're making your cradle so nice and sleek, I'm going to have to make a new one, it makes mine look crappy and like I've never built anything before.
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Here's a couple of pics of my Older brother Arlen's Senior Kadet, very nice flyer, he has a 90 four stroke on his, PLENTY of power. He highly recommends it in a tail dragger configuration, I know Sig designed it in the trike gear configuration for beginning pilots, but it flys well either way. That choice would of course be yours.
Keep the updates coming, it looks Great! :clap: :clap:
One other thing, you'll want to make sure that there is sufficient surface area on top of the cradle for the glider wing to support both leading edge and trailing edge of the wing.
andrew wallace:
wow tracy
that's a beautiful model :D
the one that i'm gonna use is almost twenty years old, my dad's cousin built it and couldn't fly it so he gave to dad and he has kept it in the attic all these years :lol:
so hopefully it'll get a bit of flying now :D
at the minute it's tricycle under carriage but might have to change it to a tail dragger, we'll see if the nose leg can stick the extra weight on take off
we take off a grass strip and it has no alierons as well so i'll see how it flys with just the rudder first before cahnging it
Freedom Flyer:
Andy,
My brothers plane is an ARF plane, it came with ailerons. He added the black pin striping, moved the landing gear for the tail dragger configuration and because of our altitude put the big 4 stroke on it, I don't think he needed to go quite as big as he did :shock: :shock: but it does fly very well and is a very relaxing model to fly.
I would strongly suggest that you do at least one thing before attempting to haul up a glider, I think it would wise be to add ailerons to that plane, it's a decent sized rudder but I don't think you will be able to maintain control with a sailplane mounted to the top with rudder only. I'm not saying you should, but you might also want to be prepared to go with a tail dragger set up, especially if you are flying off of a grass strip. There's going to be just enough weight added to the plane and also enough in front of the CG that it may cause the nose gear to "dig in". I do think it will be plenty of plane to haul up the glider you have sitting on it in the picture, and if you can put some sort of support out near the bend in the glider wing to keep it from tipping side to side. :)
The very first RC plane I saw fly was a Sig Kadet Senior, the guy that helped me get started in the hobby had one. He had made a set of skiis for it so he had a great big nose ski that the prop just barely missed when running, it was rudder only but flew great on the powder snow he was flying off of. Unfortunately his depth perception wasn't as good as it should have been and he hit a football goal post about 6 inches out from the fuselage on the left side of the wing, it was a total loss but fun while it lasted. :D :D Keep the photos coming I'm excited to see the progress. After seeing yours you'll probably see a pic of a new one mounted on my plane. Tracy.
P.S. Do you guys get any snow on the tops of your slopes? and do you fly mode one or two there?
andrew wallace:
hi tracy
i've been busy this past week or so and i haven't been able to get much work done :(
we have had no real snow this year so far :D
i have the cradle made and i was wondering how do you keep the wing from slipping back when you pull the bands across i find the wing tends to slip back a good few inches and that would affect the CG i was trying to keep the wing leading edge close to the leading edge of the plane :?: :?:
thanks for your help and hope to get a few photo's soon i have the plane converted to a tail dragger now :D
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