About 2 or 3 times a month, a receive requests, mainly from teachers, to build a glider with student. Each time, they go for one of the scale glider, or the Quark, and each time, I have to tell them that they are not suited for what they are trying to do, and send them to ARF models etc.
Recently, my "middle" daughter have a big interest in all things flying, and spend hours throwing free flight gliders pretty much everywhere (she is 4...
)
So, that make me thinking, and I have designed a beginner's glider, very easy to build, cheap, and that will hopefully fly great! (answer on that next week end!)
The plan was to design something relatively robust, very easy to build with kids, with the minimum tools and materials.
First the 3 views of the beast:
And the plan, with all the details needed to build the glider:
Wingspan is 1.2m
2 Channel radio (elevator / rudder)
All wood construction. You need 5 sheets of balsa, a few balsa strips, and a small piece of plywood. Cannot go simpler than that!
I'm not going to put photos of the build here, as this is very straight forward (fuselage is a box, elevator / rudder are balsa sheets, wings are rectangular, but I can if someone is interested of course).
Anyway, after 2 hours of build, model is ready for sanding (tonight)
After that, covering, and put 2 servos in there, and ready for the test flight.
Second kit is ready, that will be our evening project with my daughter
(she already chosen the colours... Purple and Pink all the way!.. Girls...
)
Stay tuned for more!