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AndREaS by Martin Burr The eagle eyed among you will recognise the name…. Yes it’s another of Alan’s planes from last month. I have been wanting to build another plane for ages, the last one I built from a kit was about 25yrs ago, yep really 25yrs ago, I remember enjoying the process but also that its very time consuming. I have “built” and repaired mouldies and repaired a few trad built planes over the years, but none from “scratch” for quite a while. Well, with current events I thought I would give it a go, this plane, is a 2m R.E.S. electric launch glider made and designed in Germany, easily ordered direct from Germany and delivered via DHL in a couple of days. I also ordered a couple of rolls of light weight covering, and including post it came to about £160. Alan sent me the translated instructions, and once I sussed out that the numbers in the text referred to the pictures on the German instructions included in the kit, I was off and running.
The kit, as Alan says, goes together pretty well from laser cut parts, there are a few bits that need fettling, and I think the leading and trailing edge sheeting could do with being a fraction oversize so it can be sanded back neatly.
There were some rather nice bits of assembly, one of which is how the wing panel dihedral is achieved. I thought this was rather neat, the last rib is made from plywood, and has an extension panel underneath. You position the inner panel flat on the board and weight it, the tip is elevated to the correct angle and incidence in one go, then all you need do is clamp and glue. I have added some pictures to show this.
As I write the plane is ready to cover, and I am not sure how much longer I can put it off, I have enough servos and a motor in mind to use from other planes, so I should be able to get it ready for flight fairly soon.
I mentioned earlier that I have not built anything like this in 25yrs, well that’s true, and I still have the plane I built, it’s a Sirocco T tail by Roy Pitts, all this modelling activity has spurred me on, so when the Andreas is off the building board I will get the old girl down and check her over with a view to an electric conversion. Hope you found this interesting, Martin WHAT DOES A SCIROCCO LOOK LIKE? by David B I read Martins piece re building an electric soarer from a German laser cut kit and the fact that he hadn’t built a kit since making a Scirocco T Tail glider€¯ by Roy Pitts. Well heres one I made earlier! Also made many years ago built from a kit from Harry Brook s Shop in Brighton. As far as I remember it handled well,but had a design flaw/ difficulty with the elevator drive up the t tail ...giving imprecise neutral in pitch. I have tried various alternative arrangements...we’ll see after lockdown!
Mine was recovered about 4 years ago with MicaFilm...not my favourite covering ...Balsalock did not seem to like it ...The Jester colour scheme a result in trying to use up left over films ...It flies well in a rather 1970s wire wing joiner 3 axis style AND HERE’S THE ORIGINAL BY MARTIN B
Here is a picture of the plane i built many years ago, I only had a few goes at flying it, I was distracted by music for about 10yrs then I had some inspiration, got it out of the loft, joined CDMFC, and met Brian Brockway who tought me to fly with this and a Zagi.(Thanks Brian) I found all the bits in the loft and an original sticker/transfer (Perhaps that’s the German spelling - Ed) Its going to be stripped and recovered and electrified.
Nice to see another one as well. Cheers Martin
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