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Happy Days:
Once upon a time, there were three bears,....................No, on second thoughts I guess you've all heard that one before.

How about this; Once upon a time, (about a year ago) I thought I'd try my hand at building a glider

Ordered a Sprit "Elite" from Great Planes. A box of 'bits' with a very large sheet of paper arrived a week later. So I started to build it.


Then I built a bit more.


And then a bit more


Finally had it all built. (Can't show a picture, dam thing wont up load) Looked a bit strange. Polyhederal wing with ailerons and flaps. Never seen one like it before

Took her out to Mt. Lienster today. And she FLEW!!! It's very difficult using both hands to fly the plane and take pictures. I just pointed the camera in the general direction and pushed the button!


I found the ailerons very ineffective, probably because of the polyhederal wing. (Could that be the reason Fred?)


Assending for a loop which she did very well. But because of the ineffectual ailerons she wont roll. (Or at least I couldn't get her to.)

I flew her three times with no probs, but on the fourth flight,..........ooops I let one wing drop on landing..............Not Good! Broke part of the joining section of one wing. (Where the two halves meet together above the fuse')


And split the fuse'

But on the basis that if I built her, then I can repair her I hope to have her back up in the air before too long!

There,.....that was a more interesting story than Goldilocks and the three Bears, wasn't it?

Keith.

Happy Days:
A-Ha, Finally got the pic' of my little bird to upload. This was taken after the third flight. i.e. before she crashed.
Although,...thinking about it, you could say that all landings are crashes. Just that most landings are controlled crashes. Who agrees with that?

Anyway, here's the picie.

IceWind:
That looks great!
Sorry about the little incident, i hope you put it up again in no time.
I guess flying and taking photos is not the easiest things that can be made, even so you managed to catch it.
There is always the option to set the camera in the head, i saw that somewhere. Not very nice but it works.

All that goes up must come down, sometimes they just come down too fast!

Happy Days:
Thanks Icewind, yes, gravity will always win in the end. I guess the fun is in trying to defy it.

I've glued to split fuse' and the broken wing. There's a strong westerly blowing at the moment, might have to "poodle" over to 'Big L' after lunch and have another go.

Taking the picies yesterday was,..........mmmmm... Interesting. I had the transmitter on a neck strap, the camera was on a wrist strap. I had to launch the plane with my left hand, (with the camera hanging off my wrist), fly the plane up to a reasonable height, let go of the rudder stick, and "flick" the camera up into my left hand hoping that when I caught it the lense was pointing away from me, not towards me! (Otherwise I'd have taken a close up of my face.)(Not a pretty sight!)

K

IceWind:
Good luck with that!
If you feel like doing more "juggling" take some action photos.  :D

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