ThatsALotOfPlanes
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Hey guys!
I wanted to share my current project, a self-designed glider I call the Fox 6. I've been working on drawing up plans for a couple of weeks, and I started building last week. I was heavily inspired to start this project by John Woodfield on YouTube. One of his builds, the Ocean Breeze, is the basis for my build, along with plans of large gliders from the 1940s and 50s I found online.
I've never undertaken something like this, the only balsa experience I have is chuck gliders and stick and tissue builds. It's fun to use big 1/4" square balsa when normally I would be building with 1/16" square, it feels like building with lincoln logs . Right now I have the elevator and both sides of the fuselage built, with the rudder close to completion, I'll get pics up this evening of those.
The wingspan is 72 inches and the length is 50 inches
Here's a three-view:
I wanted to share my current project, a self-designed glider I call the Fox 6. I've been working on drawing up plans for a couple of weeks, and I started building last week. I was heavily inspired to start this project by John Woodfield on YouTube. One of his builds, the Ocean Breeze, is the basis for my build, along with plans of large gliders from the 1940s and 50s I found online.
I've never undertaken something like this, the only balsa experience I have is chuck gliders and stick and tissue builds. It's fun to use big 1/4" square balsa when normally I would be building with 1/16" square, it feels like building with lincoln logs . Right now I have the elevator and both sides of the fuselage built, with the rudder close to completion, I'll get pics up this evening of those.
The wingspan is 72 inches and the length is 50 inches
Here's a three-view: