wonwinglo
SMF Supporter
- Joined
- Apr 18, 2004
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- 6,754
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- First Name
- Barry
This is currently my favourite flyer,she was based on a Flair kit for the Harvard but incorporates one very important design feature to make her fly well,it all started several years ago when a friend asked me to test fly his Harvard,quite frankly it was a bitch to fly and would jst drop a wing on the landing approach,not put off by this I decided to build some washout at the wingtips on my model as a cure for this,the idea being that the wing will stall first at th wing root and not the tip,initial test flights showed that it had worked the model has become a firm favourite of mine and looks superb when doing touch and goes from my grass strip,she does the most scale like slow roll but just like the full size you need to put in some down just at the right time as she goes over,to land her you just need to rumble her in over the threshold,the big alloy cowl sounds great as the GMS 40 helicopter engine provides the necessary humph,I selected this motor because a standard Shuttle silencer protudes nicely just like the stack pipe on the original.
I like the model because she is a challenge to fly in a scale like manner which is just how a model of this type should be flown,if you see this kit then snap it up because I have not seen one for a long time in the shops.
It is a great pleasure to share her with you all.
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I like the model because she is a challenge to fly in a scale like manner which is just how a model of this type should be flown,if you see this kit then snap it up because I have not seen one for a long time in the shops.
It is a great pleasure to share her with you all.
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