I got this comment back after conducting a workshop for Leadership Ottawa:
“Thank you Darcy for your unbridled, uncomplicated, straightforward, heartfelt enthusiasm! I love your wonderful energy to making this flight for the Leadership Ottawa cohort a unique one… thank you for reminding everyone that powered by imagination the sky is truly the limit…! ” — Bart Baaker, Leadership Ottawa
I found these really nice pictures in the RCGroups forum. I’m still waiting for a flying report. Heinz gave a great tip. He said that he used dental elastics for holding on the wing.
Here’s my Yamaha Scooter that I used to zip around with my model airplanes. I really liked this scooter. It has been replaced by a motorcycle. In retrospect I like the scooter more. I have been eyeballing electric bicycles. I think that would be a great way to zip around.
Here I’m at a park in Rockliffe Park where I know kids in the neighborhood since I used to fly at this park back when I was married.
Note the bankers’ box which is attached by a bungee cord.
This was a great solution till someone stole it (the bike that is). 🙁 It was recovered by the police but they didn’t get around to telling me (depsite telephoning once per day), till the storage bill was more than the bike’s value. The police did more damage than the thief.
Submission from George Clark:
Sending along a photo and a short video of a new plane. Just testing it, but results on only 200 winds are promising. The plane has an 18 in. wingspan, 4 in. chord and weighs 20 grams, including rubber. Prop is hand carved and just 5 in. I feel the plane could better use a 7 in. prop, which I also have. More testing to follow. George
Here’s another submission from George Clark!
I have another for you. This is the Flying Circle. It has a 24 in. diameter wing, if you want to call it that and no rear stabilizer. It was a bit dicey to construct since I had to bend the wing frame into shape. The wing was also flimsy, as a gust of wind broke the leading edge on both sides. I had to reinforce the leading edge and put struts underneath for support, which threw out the c/g. It is now front heavy, so I will have to move back the prop assembly an estimated 3 in. The wing loading is .11 grams/sq. oz! Cheers George Clark
