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Can you believe this flies? - 10/24/2004 1:41:58 AM   
psk560



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Status: offline 		A friend of mine built this awesome and unique rc plane. It's called the "spaceship". He can't remember the magazine he got it from but it is surely an interesting discussion in aerodynamics. Check out the video of it flying at: www.psk560.com

Craig

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RE: Can you believe this flies? - 10/24/2004 2:08:51 AM   
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Status: offline 		Wow...Hard to believe that it would fly. Is that a O.S. 40 or 46 LA? That thing must be extremely light weight for it's size. And what is it made out of? I'm pretty sure it's not balsa.


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RE: Can you believe this flies? - 10/24/2004 2:29:02 AM   
Mike James



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Status: offline 		Cute...

The B-29 video on that site kills me. Not for scale purists, but hey... Looks like a lot of fun. The suprise rocket boost on the X-1 was cool too. I'm glad someone hosts videos such as these, so we can all see them.


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RE: Can you believe this flies? - 10/24/2004 2:33:34 AM   
psk560



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Status: offline 		Believe it or not the "Space ship" wieghs around 2 lbs. It is powered by an LA OS 25. It is made up entirely of stick balsa. WOW.

Craig

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RE: Can you believe this flies? - 10/24/2004 2:59:43 AM   
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Status: offline 		Oh man. 2 pound, all balsa plane. With a 25. That's interesting. How does it handle the wind? It looks like the wind can easily take advantage of it.


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RE: Can you believe this flies? - 10/24/2004 3:29:33 AM   
psk560



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Status: offline 		The wind was straight down the runway today light and variable. I'm sure it would do great upwind but the downwind side could be interesting with the much smaller airspeed. LOL.

Craig

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RE: Can you believe this flies? - 10/24/2004 3:47:17 AM   
Tall Paul



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Status: offline 		That's a verrrrrrrry old Roy L. Clough design from "Air Trails".

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RE: Can you believe this flies? - 10/24/2004 4:58:24 PM   
dick Hanson



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Status: offline 		yeh - I tried gliders made from the ends cut from foam wing cores
Some were 2" wide and a 12" chord- Just stuck pieces of balsa in rear for a "fin"
The design is completely stable -tho they wobble a bit like a Flash Gordon rocket--
And for purists --no the L/D is not all that good.

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RE: Can you believe this flies? - 10/24/2004 7:39:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		Not only does it fly it was designed as a free flight. I built one as a youngster back in the mid fiftys.

With the new miniture servos and programming it could be a very interesting flyer.

The free flight version was just a low speed crash when the engine quit.

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RE: Can you believe this flies? - 10/24/2004 10:02:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hi psk560,

That plane was in RCM, @ the late '80's to early '90's. I thought about building it myself. But... Oh well!


Mic

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RE: Can you believe this flies? - 10/25/2004 2:15:32 AM   
Jim Thomerson



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Status: offline 		There is a long Roy L. Clough thread in the Vintage forum. A prolific designer of interesting airplanes.

Jim

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RE: Can you believe this flies? - 10/25/2004 4:28:39 AM   
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Status: offline 		I think it was Skip Ruff that was "responsible" for the larger RC conversion and the article. If you compare the one in this video to the originals I see that the side wings and dorsal fin are not there. The dorsal fin was said to act like dihedral and would probably have controlled the Dutch roll you can see in the video. Also the flat side strake "wings" would provide at least a bit of lift.

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RE: Can you believe this flies? - 10/25/2004 2:32:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		You are correct, it was Ruff who did the "Martian Spaceship". Part 1 of his construction article was in the August 1991 issue of Model Builder magazine.

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RE: Can you believe this flies? - 10/25/2004 6:52:39 PM   
DesignMan



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Status: offline 		I have had the pleasure of watching Skip fly his Spaceship. He had built one, and then when MB wanted the article, he had to build a second one! Skip also published a beautiful twin rotor Gyrocopter. The sexy lady on the cover is his charming wife, Deb.

Really nice people. Skip is a fireman working for Taft, California.

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RE: Can you believe this flies? - 10/27/2004 4:35:32 PM   
boberos


 

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Status: offline 		After seeing the video by psk560, I am amazed.
It appears to fly like a flying wing, & stable right down to stall speed, perhaps below. Can anyone explain the aerodynamics?

BTW, Bill Northrop still has plans for this one.

Gotta dig ot my M.B. mags.
Bob G

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