Looks nice. How do you like the blue foam, does it work well for lightweight applications? I've never tried it, but I'm curious.Well, I'm going to give this one a try. I did this design based on the Lazy Bee crossed with a simplified J-3 fuselage, and I have two different powered versions. They both fly quite well, one under camber and one with folded wings. When the other two planes are powered off, they have a long glide, and I was hoping this transferred to this one. I used my dwindling supply of 1/4" blue foam to save on weight for this one.
There's aren't many places around here to fly slope, but I'll try this out at a few of them...if it doesn't crash. It still needs servoes, receiver, and BEC...and the nose finished. We'll see.
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Looks nice. How do you like the blue foam, does it work well for lightweight applications? I've never tried it, but I'm curious.
If you built similar planes that had a good glide slope, this one should be fine, no question. Probably better, since you don't have the weight of a motor! John Woodfield (you can search him on youtube) made a balsa Lazy Bee unpowered slope glider that flew great.
At least it shows that undercambered wings are slow....... i suppose from you started the flying, till plane was at ground again, you got a very long slow flyingtime?Tree landing, and the results of my trying to get it out. View attachment 201808 View attachment 201809
I assume there is a skill set for slope gliding…that I need to work on. This one needed more rudder and elevator authority. I not sure if I want to try a longer tail boom or larger control surfaces. Since the wing and fuselage are in good shape, I guess I’ll enlarge the rudder and elevator and see how that goes.
At least it shows that undercambered wings are slow....... i suppose from you started the flying, till plane was at ground again, you got a very long slow flyingtime?
you was lucky to it falled fast down from the tree then? Its not at ground landed, when is up in a tre you knowLong flight time…hmmm. Well, 12 to 15 seconds. It wasn’t a great slope, or wind. If the bluff near there doesn’t work out, I’ll try somewhere along Cook Inlet’s Turnagain Arm (Cook Inlet’s Knik Arm is pictured above. Cold gray water, full of glacial silt). With 5 or 6 glaciers at the end of the fjord there’s almost always wind blowing down the inlet. I just need to find the right slope (that I can get to) that channels that wind correctly (that doesn’t have bears…it’s Alaska, we have bears, and they can be…grumpy).
Reviving this old thread.Rebuilt the tail. The same elevator, but a taller rudder. Both have more throw. My glide testing in the yard was good, but then my driveway kind of funnels the wind. There was a lot more control. Now if I can eke out the time to try this at the bluff when the wind is right.
Very cool. I'm also a Mac user so Pages files work for me.If I could find a slope that isn't near an airport it might work out, however at this point I've not found one. I even did a new version with a folded wing, and I'm going to try a new folded wing with a little wider wingspan (Not the one pictured below.). Still don't know how I'll launch it or where I'll fly it. But, I still rather like this plane. I'll post the plans as soon as I have them sorted out. Sadly, I did the originals in Pages saved as PDFs (Yes, I'm an Apple user.). The Lazy-Bee has a deeper fuselage than the Lazier-G (Which is the actual name of the glider.).
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This glider will fly about 40', tossed from 6'. Still, I don't know if it will slope. I'll put this plan up as well (Though, working, so it will take a week or so.).