Thanks, Gregory! This one is a good memory for me too since I remember my Dad trying to fly it off a hill and it had 2 pennies epoxied to each side of the nose! I recall it stalled a lot and crashed even more so this one is for Des and my Dad...
Here is a bit of progress. I intend to make some videos to show the build as well so I'll add links later. But the first thing is to make some nice 1/32nd x 1/16th balsa laminations wrapped around the outlines of the tails to get strong and light starts to the tails. I just used the outline from the plan, glued it to some cardboard, spread bar soap around the edges (so the wood won't stick to the form) and then, after putting some glue between the thin balsa sheets that I soaked for about 15 minutes in hot water in the sink (2 long lengths so I'm actually wrapping a 1/16th x 1/16th balsa outline) wrapped them around the forms, pulled them tight and held them in place with some strong magnets on a piece of metal. This way, there are no pins to poke the wood and I never go the hang of holding the wood without actually pinning through it. This way, things work out just great. I'll leave these to dry overnight and be ready to start building the actual tails tomorrow! Light and strong. I may make them hinged but we'll see...
I hope this makes some sense...here are the pictures:
Note that the tails will be a 1/16th of an inch larger around than on the plan, but hey! You usually need more tail surface area anyway...especially for free flight!
And here's the first video installment. Lots of pretty music and it's only about 4 minutes long. It may show better than I can describe if you are not familiar with these little balsa models!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vAlEidRqFsMore soon!
Dan
