****EDIT: I started my build finally. It begins on page 3
Slope wings guys, sheesh come on, grow up
So a few years ago i came across the wowings Booby slope wing. It has this crazy shape. That could never fly, you might say.
Oh really?
It was made by wowings: http://www.wowings.com/products.php?product=Wowings-Booby
At first glance you may think that it is a flying wing elevon style model, but if you look it has 3 servos. It actually has an elevator and 2 ailerons.
Cg is pretty ..."fun".
The cg line is pretty close to the leading edge of the center section. You can see how much weight is behind that area and you only have the tip areas of the outside wings to put your weight in. Now this thing is for slope soaring and so it likes to be heavier, that means it goes fast. But i was also thinking that it would make an interesting dual motor powered setup. Having a motor at each of the leading points of the outer wings would help with the cg issue. Thats why im posting this here, hoping to inspire someone to try it out.
As they are no longer producing these they are very hard to find. I even put in a wanted add in rcgroups with zero bites. Hopefully i can jump on a deal at some point in the future, but in the meantime i decided to try and copy the design and scratch build my own slope soarer out of hot cut foam. But i think it would be a very easy build out of foam board. Faster for sure. Its just 5 folded over pieces of foam board, versa style folds. And than a spar across them all. I haven't created any "plans" that will instantly translate to foam board builds but i did do a 2d profile design that has all the dimension. I will attach the full scale svg file i created in inkscape if anybody wants to try it out and i will update in the future when i do my rigid foam version.
The original design is 47" and i used that and a top down picture to create my plans.
Full scale SVG, a pdf version of the svg, and the original companies build manual are attached below. All sizes are in MM and again this has not been tested, IE cg is the calculated CG, not tested.
Heres a cool video of it flying.
And a playlist i made of them below that.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMieSP4Ym7qp-uZ-xlntRCqix_J6hgWZ9
Slope wings guys, sheesh come on, grow up
So a few years ago i came across the wowings Booby slope wing. It has this crazy shape. That could never fly, you might say.
Oh really?
It was made by wowings: http://www.wowings.com/products.php?product=Wowings-Booby
At first glance you may think that it is a flying wing elevon style model, but if you look it has 3 servos. It actually has an elevator and 2 ailerons.
Cg is pretty ..."fun".
The cg line is pretty close to the leading edge of the center section. You can see how much weight is behind that area and you only have the tip areas of the outside wings to put your weight in. Now this thing is for slope soaring and so it likes to be heavier, that means it goes fast. But i was also thinking that it would make an interesting dual motor powered setup. Having a motor at each of the leading points of the outer wings would help with the cg issue. Thats why im posting this here, hoping to inspire someone to try it out.
As they are no longer producing these they are very hard to find. I even put in a wanted add in rcgroups with zero bites. Hopefully i can jump on a deal at some point in the future, but in the meantime i decided to try and copy the design and scratch build my own slope soarer out of hot cut foam. But i think it would be a very easy build out of foam board. Faster for sure. Its just 5 folded over pieces of foam board, versa style folds. And than a spar across them all. I haven't created any "plans" that will instantly translate to foam board builds but i did do a 2d profile design that has all the dimension. I will attach the full scale svg file i created in inkscape if anybody wants to try it out and i will update in the future when i do my rigid foam version.
The original design is 47" and i used that and a top down picture to create my plans.
Full scale SVG, a pdf version of the svg, and the original companies build manual are attached below. All sizes are in MM and again this has not been tested, IE cg is the calculated CG, not tested.
Heres a cool video of it flying.
And a playlist i made of them below that.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMieSP4Ym7qp-uZ-xlntRCqix_J6hgWZ9
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