Engine burbling, model bumbling happily about... Lovely. It's such a relaxing way to fly. On a design note: I like that fuselage. A few years ago I got into building all-wooden DLGs (ran out of money to make the usual carbon-composite variety), and I found that a fuselage with a triangular cross-section offered a good compromise between weight, strength and stiffness. When the UK's ridiculous drone-laws, annual fee, registration requirements and weight limits came into force, I slimmed down the designs to sub-250g (I refuse to register and pay an unfair tax!) and flew the models as catapult-launch gliders. Wingspan was 5'. Coupled with a variable camber polyhedral wing and a V-tail, they turned out to be quite good fliers. So, yay for Toblerone fuselages!😁
Yet again another classic. If memory serves me right (and it doesn't these days) there is a smaller version of this model, I think round about the 50in size.
Spettacolare, ciò che volava negli anni 40 può fare divertire anche oggi se il pilota è un tizio con la pazienza.
Engine burbling, model bumbling happily about... Lovely. It's such a relaxing way to fly.
On a design note: I like that fuselage. A few years ago I got into building all-wooden DLGs (ran out of money to make the usual carbon-composite variety), and I found that a fuselage with a triangular cross-section offered a good compromise between weight, strength and stiffness.
When the UK's ridiculous drone-laws, annual fee, registration requirements and weight limits came into force, I slimmed down the designs to sub-250g (I refuse to register and pay an unfair tax!) and flew the models as catapult-launch gliders. Wingspan was 5'. Coupled with a variable camber polyhedral wing and a V-tail, they turned out to be quite good fliers.
So, yay for Toblerone fuselages!😁
Pete Russell built this design and later developed it into the famous Stol Mk 1
Yet again another classic. If memory serves me right (and it doesn't these days) there is a smaller version of this model, I think round about the 50in size.