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In (rec.radio.amateur.homebrew), Hans Summers wrote:
Had SO many crashes with that plane, and came to love it - just glued it back together every time. In the end it was probably more glue than balsa wood. A number of times I had to carry the pieces home in a plastic shopping bag. By the following Saturday it was glued back together and generally caused jaws at the flying field to drop. No-one could believe anything with that much glue in it and such bad aerodynamics could actually fly. The wings (balsa sheet covering polystyrene) had snapped 4 times and been repaired by application of a fibre-glass bandage, adding significant weight of course. It actually flew quite well too, all the aerobatics no problem and I particularly used to like slow low level inverted fly bys at 10 ft or less. From RFC 1925: "(3) With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- Mike Andrews Tired old sysadmin since 1964 |
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