Here is a Squirrel made by Moiz in Pakistan.
He’s entering it in a competition at school. They’re not using the high quality rubber that comes with Squirrels but an assigned rubber band to keep the playing field level.
I’m suggesting he use lubrication to permit more turns in the rubber. Also if he were to use the 6″ propeller that comes with the kit (or another source) it may be better than that 5″ one he has. If it unwinds slower it may fly longer.
Here’s an interesting education program using Squirrels. Squirrel is simple enough that it was just one of three different projects within the program. They started with some experiments and a paper plane, moved onto a walkalong glider and then finally a Squirrel.
Hi Darcy,
Thank you for sending the 3 free squirrels. I took them to India and
it flew beautifully!
Attaching video of pure fun.
Happy Thanksgiving.
DD Ganguly
We ship lots of Squirrel kits to Australia but there are a lot of DIYers there.
Keith Harbottle is setting up a High School Camp and he was not able to source the 5″ propeller.
The Squirrel should work fine on a 4″ propeller. The workshop is being deployed this week so we may get some more pictures.
Below are a couple of his experiments. He made a smaller Squirrel to see if it worked better with the 4″ propeller but I think he will find it’s much easier to just make a standard Squirrel then substitute propeller.
I’m curious if those 4″ propellers turn in the opposite direction. 🙂
