Journey into space?

[AES]

Now this is, IMHO "impressive".

https://www.youtube.com/embed/pD_yQZ4iNjY?rel=0

P.S. Jonzjob (or any other aeromodellers out there) remember the McCutcheon Machine?

AES

 

[t8hants]

My gob was smacked !!

 

[Mar_mite]

Wow. Thanks for posting.

 

[Mrwilson]

Not quite ready for the trip to Mars, just a bit of tweaking required.

Might get a bit dizzy after a few months in it as well.

Shug

 

[AES]

Just in case anyone's interested, here's a video of the McCutcheon flying machine (called "Charybidis" - ot something). This one's a pretty modern electric powered version, but they first came to fame when published as a free plan in the UK "Aeromodeller" mag in the 1960s. I built one, powered by a little Cox .049 glow motor, and it "flew" too.

Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oSck_XD0_M

AES

 

[Jonzjob]

Not heard of those before, but if you like your link this is another with a glow engine.. I am amaised at the stability!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrK8k_OjIeA

The first landing was one I am familiar with when flying RC gliders

 

[mailee]

I can't really see the point of radio control other than to adjust the speed/height. Think I would stick with the helicopter or fixed wing. :lol:

 

[Jonzjob]

Oh? and how would you do that with a glider?

As a matter of interest. What is faster? A glider or a prop driven jobbie? Models of course :mrgreen:

A helicopter is a rotating wing if I read it correctly? If so that is a helicopter init already :twisted:

 

[mailee]

Yes it is but there is no control over it, just up and down. Mind you that was the way I flew them anyway. :lol: not sure about the speed thing with the glider or prop powered? I know the pylon racers are pretty quick as I used to own a mini spit that was blistering....until the wings came off! :shock: :lol:

 

[Jonzjob]

The world speed record set for a flat 100m course was about 280mph whereas prop power could only get to about 20mph less than that. But remember that's on a flat 100m course.

If you chuck a glider off a hill with a back slope and use what's called dynamic soaring then you have the ppossibllity of the mid 400s! Not my style and I don't see the point?

After a certain speed with a prop on the front it just can't pull any more and acts like a speed brake. Quit eironis really. Turbines are different, and expensive, as they don't have that speed brake. Not sure about ducted fans???

I stuck mt Garmin Etrex Vista GPS in a scale 2 metre Discus II and got a height of just under 1000' and a speed of 96mph and that was enough for a change of trousers for me!! This is the one. A real pleasure to fly too

 

[RogerM]

That's really nice John. Still got a Soarcerer, a Monterey and a Phase 6 on top of my wardrobe. Radio gear is 30 years old and kaput after a meeting with terra firma after the batteries ran out prematurely and the elevator cycled to fully down and stayed there, but I guess simple modern 4 channel stuff is cheap enough these days? My dream has always been to have a Discus 2 - a real one that is!

 

[Jonzjob]

Spot what you can :mrgreen: :mrgreen:



The big half finished wing is for a 4 metre Habiich gull wing glider. This is a bit of the full size jobbie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKK0_ZfN-pY

I will get to finishing it one day??

 

[RogerM]

Nice collection of "bitsa's" there. I need to add a "little plank" flying wing to the collection mentioned above. Are you not afraid that the uncovered habiich wing will warp leaned up in a cupbaord?

 

[Jonzjob]

Should be OK as it is dry and no strain on it? I hope??

In that lot is a Minimoa, white fuz on top of the cupboard, wings off to the right. Zagi electric, bottom left. My Big Willy is just behind the Zagi. Topline wings, 2 off extream left. Magister and Habctch fuz in cupbaord and my lovely Grunau Baby tucked behind the Minimoa fuz on the top. Several more tucked away in there but not easy to see in that lot.

I learned to fly with the South Cotswold Soaring Association, SCSA, and had 17 lovely years with them. A bunch of real enthusiats set in what must be one of the very best site situations in the U.K.. There's a slope of every wind direction plus flat field, and all within just a few miles of each other. It one of the things I mis here!!

http://www.scsa.org.uk/

The logo says it all as far as the flying sites are concerned!!