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Slope Soaring / Hai 1 - A glider wich fits into a suitcase

« on: April 23, 2008, 14:12:44 PM »

Fred
I have still some adjusments to do with regard to CG but I htink it will just be right for the slope with strong wind less for where I live  :?
Stephan

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Slope Soaring / Hai 1 - A glider wich fits into a suitcase

« on: April 20, 2008, 14:32:54 PM »

Hi everybody
today was the maiden flight of the Hai1. Everything went well, even when its first flight was a little bit agitated. For the second flight I trimmed some elevator which made the flight much better. I have still to adjust the CoG correctly and then its just fine for the slope   Some pics to get you some impression at least (sorry, I have not have an experienced photographer with me  :? )




Thats it, I hope I will have a lot of fun with it at the Mt Leinster FlyIn
Cheers
Stephan

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Scale / Backstrom EPB-1C "Flying Plank"

« on: April 16, 2008, 20:22:08 PM »

...Check out the Alpina video ! Get ready !  

 :twisted: I am ready to chase the Alpina along the edge  :lol:
Stephan

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Scale / Backstrom EPB-1C "Flying Plank"

« on: April 15, 2008, 19:36:17 PM »

:?: nice musik,  :?: nice blue sky  :?: but where is the Backstrom   :roll: I cannot see anything
Stephan

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Scale / 1/3 scale Ka3

« on: April 14, 2008, 18:31:12 PM »

Nice landscape, realy beautiful and nice flight concratulation ones more Fred
Stephan

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Slope Soaring / Hai 1 - A glider wich fits into a suitcase

« on: April 13, 2008, 19:53:44 PM »

Ok guys
yesterday and today the covering was on the schedule. At first I sanded a littlebit ( I hate sanding) than some prep stuff on (Glattfix???) ones more sanding and than covered with Oracover Light (wings) and normal oracover for the fuselage. The engine and controler are in, still need to get the right balance point some programming on the radio an thats it. I  think next week end I will made the first trial.

see you, cheers
Stephan

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Slope Soaring / Hai 1 - A glider wich fits into a suitcase

« on: April 06, 2008, 22:01:26 PM »

I can't remember if you've told us... You are going to put an BL Inrunner +lipos ?
Can certainly do a nice glider too  :?:  To stay pure...  :wink:    

... I have an outrunner lieing in a corner with 8NiMh 1100 GP, this should do the job
Stephan

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Slope Soaring / Hai 1 - A glider wich fits into a suitcase

« on: April 06, 2008, 21:18:42 PM »

So, as announced today I put togehter the parts, made the changes with the root ribs that both wings fit better together, glued the winglets, decided to add to each side of the ribs a triangle and drilled the holes for the screws to fix the wing and that's that baby right now.

The weight so far is 280g, have to add the radio and the batterie which is about 220g and the covering, so I should end up somewhere between 550 and 600g, :oops: oupps I forgot the engine which makes another 50g  but it should be still ok   , I am not far away from anybody else who build this glider and that with all the changes I made to get a stronger fuselage and wings.
Cheers
Stephan

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Slope Soaring / Hai 1 - A glider wich fits into a suitcase

« on: April 04, 2008, 22:14:06 PM »

Often this are the little things which takes most of the time, but I am moving on. The support of the servos is build in...

... and at the moment the sheeting is drying. Tomorrow I will show a first picture fuselage/wings  
cheers
Stephan

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Scale / 1/3 scale Ka3

« on: April 03, 2008, 19:59:40 PM »

Great job Fred, hope your Ka3 gets a pilot  :?: it would be a pity if not  :cry:
Stephan

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Scale / Pilatus B4 build

« on: April 01, 2008, 07:13:04 AM »

Hi Peter
for the first time I see a B4 in an all wooden approach realy great  :clap: That changes from this fiber and foam stuff.
Stephan

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Slope Soaring / Newby

« on: April 01, 2008, 07:10:01 AM »

You can also come to some meetings if you want to meet a bunch of lads...
20th of April, Cork Glide in
10th - 11th May ISR glide in at Mt Leinster...

... and the last one is with international attendees, this shows which importance the Irish glider scene has  :lol:
Stephan

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Slope Soaring / Hai 1 - A glider wich fits into a suitcase

« on: March 29, 2008, 13:27:31 PM »

This thead makes me want to get covered in balsa shavings again .

Hi Chris, just do it, its great fun  

So, some news about the construction. Both wings are finished in its basic structur, thus I could start to take care about the plug-in mount. The main plug in mount will be realized by a 6mm copper tube with a 4mm piano wire inside, and will go from the root rib through rib 20. Therefore, Rib 20 and 21 will be strengthen by a 1mm playwood rib glued on the balsa rib.

This work is indeed easier to do it before having glued the balsa ribs already, well I have just not made up my minde correctly before starting the construction :!: .
As soon as the ribs were glued I put first the front tube in the right position, the right dehidral is got by just putting under 15mm balsa at the end of both wings. Then I pre-fixed the tubes with some fast epoxy. The next step was  to adjust the auxiliar plug-in at the rear of the wings, which is indeed much smaler, only over the first two ribs and a 4mm copper tube with a 3mm piano wire inside. Also this one is pre-fixed with fast epoxy to get it in the right position.

Now, everything can be finaly glued overnight with slow epoxy. So, if you have now a closed look on it, there is still one mistake, yes, the bias of the root ribs is to big :cry: thus I have to put some balsa on and sand it into the right angle, a kind of a botch job :roll:
Cheers
Stephan

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Misc / What color schemes work the best!

« on: March 27, 2008, 22:38:49 PM »

Ok, if you have problems to see this thing in the air, I understand. Just too little to see anything  
Stephan

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Misc / What color schemes work the best!

« on: March 27, 2008, 21:04:33 PM »

Hi Icewind
on my Kult I have had a kind of a block design wich worked very well for me.

Ok, you might only use it for utilitie gliders because it does not realy look good for a scale plane.
Cheers
Stephan