clolsonus
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I don't know what I'm getting myself into here, but I'm going to start drawing up a Fairchild F24-W40. I found free plans from the aerofred site so I thought I would trace over the outline for my first go at it.
When I was in jr high I built the Guillows F24 model and it was the first time I ever successfully flew one of my balsa builds. In fact it flew so good it could take off from the ground. It was amazing and exhilarating and everything model airplane building and flying should be! In my adult life I found the kit again, had a great time building it. I'm sure I did a much nicer job, but it didn't quite fly with the same magic that my first one did. I figured more turns of the rubber band == more magic, but then I exploded the rubber band and did some internal damage and so she sits on my shelf to this day. After building the FT Storch, I thought, what fun would it be to build a 200% Fairchild F24, make it electric power and RC and then I'm sure it would fly with 10x the magic it flew with back in the day.
The Guillows version was about 25" wing span (from memory) so this one will be 50" wing span (or as close as the snap to grid + bezier wing tip will let me.) It should be similar size to the simple storch and hopefully fly with the same size motor / battery / servos.
I have roughed in the wing as you can see, but still have a few details to think through. The fuselage will be challenging depending on how much of the original curvature I try to capture. I think I'll try to draw the tail surfaces next. Anyone already done one of these and can save me the work?
This is my first attempt at this sort of thing so I make no promises about how far I'll get or what the final result will look like, but if I make any more interesting progress I will post back here.
Thanks for looking!
Curt.
When I was in jr high I built the Guillows F24 model and it was the first time I ever successfully flew one of my balsa builds. In fact it flew so good it could take off from the ground. It was amazing and exhilarating and everything model airplane building and flying should be! In my adult life I found the kit again, had a great time building it. I'm sure I did a much nicer job, but it didn't quite fly with the same magic that my first one did. I figured more turns of the rubber band == more magic, but then I exploded the rubber band and did some internal damage and so she sits on my shelf to this day. After building the FT Storch, I thought, what fun would it be to build a 200% Fairchild F24, make it electric power and RC and then I'm sure it would fly with 10x the magic it flew with back in the day.
The Guillows version was about 25" wing span (from memory) so this one will be 50" wing span (or as close as the snap to grid + bezier wing tip will let me.) It should be similar size to the simple storch and hopefully fly with the same size motor / battery / servos.
I have roughed in the wing as you can see, but still have a few details to think through. The fuselage will be challenging depending on how much of the original curvature I try to capture. I think I'll try to draw the tail surfaces next. Anyone already done one of these and can save me the work?
This is my first attempt at this sort of thing so I make no promises about how far I'll get or what the final result will look like, but if I make any more interesting progress I will post back here.
Thanks for looking!
Curt.
