I did some experiments at the park the other day. I was able to recruit kids to do most of the work!
Retrieval from the field, retrieval from trees, you name it.
Here are a couple of shots from a model airplane demo by Sudha Menon and friends at an orphanage in Palarivattom, Ernakulam, Kerala (Janaseva Kendram, Aluva).
The Sparrow can easily fit into my new “flat boxes” that are used for Squirrel orders of up to 3 units.
Here’s an order of two going together. This means we’ll be able to use inexpensive shipping for two Sparrow kits.
Lloyd Shales and friends have been taking bookings of about 1.5 days of school time in order to share the science and fun of model aviation. My favourite artifact from his presentation is the wild turkey feather. It’s so light yet extremely rigid and strong.
That block of wood is a Jig for setting the dihedral angle of the Minnow which is the plane he takes to the classrooms. They use that jig and CA glue to set the wing angle.
He also has lots of printed materials and a test at the end.
I feel that flight is interesting and I’m actually making a Web site with everything you need to know about how flight works and many of it’s applications (natural and engineered).
This Sunday there is a festival in Ottawa. If you’d like to come and attend or help with a Squirrel workshops (or bring your own design), please contact me! I’m short of volunteers at the moment! Or if you’d like to just bring a plane and have some fun flying it and showing it around during the festival that’s cool too.
If you’d like to have a model airplane event in your city, contact me in case I can send you some planes!
