Hey Michel, that's not fair, while we mortals build half of a stab you build a whole bunch of 42% scale models!!! You make whatever we dream of building being dwarfed by those planes...
Hey, just kidding, congrats on those projects. I envy you, in the good sense.
Marcus P.S. took the Electric Mutley to fly but in windy conditions it's scary, and I don't like to fly fullpower all the time, could damage the motor. So I decided to put a gasser back into it, traded in a 3W24 that's just right for the plane. Will build a lighter plane for the E-Motor.
< Message edited by Kellermann -- 10/15/2007 2:21:17 AM >
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Ken, that's an optical illusion. The wing profile is semi-symmetrical, however, since the fuselage sides incorporate both the wing root and both front and rear window frames, when you don't draw the profile on that part, it looks like it goes all the way to where the window frame ends, and because of that shape it looks like undercambered, specially when looked from that angle. That illusion is enhanced by the small cutouts for the former aligning tabs, which look as if they were spar cutouts. In fact, the wing profile ends at approx. half of the rear window, exactly at the point where the upper line has a small bend to form the slight bow of the rear deck... Although Michel's drawing is based on the EMHW Design, if you look at my design you'll see the same illusion, possibly even at WH's - provided the profile isn't drawn yet on the window frame. Just look at the picture below...take a special look at the second fuse, standing in the rear - there you see only the window frame almost identical to Michel's drawing...on the second picture the profile is drawn, and the illusion disappears. As for the rudder, although it looks oversided, it's possible also an illusion due to the isometric perspective.
Marcus
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Michel, since you're investing so much time and effort into this design, may I make a small suggestion: please correct the instrument dashboard outline, it's not bowed like the EMHW design, but almost rectangular with rounded corners, as per the pic below...otherwise it's a beautiful design, and I look forward to see it in real... sorry I'm being the scale cop again, but that's immediately eyecatching...the first pic is of my Bellanca style model (as is the 3rd. pic, of the fullsize PP-ZPA I modeled), the others of fullsize ACA models. Marcus
< Message edited by Kellermann -- 11/5/2007 12:55:08 PM >
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My garage aka hangar still is not finished yet . . . .. so the Decathlon project had to be postponed. But in the meanwhile I fly some "from-a-distance- look-a-like", a modified Rascal 110 with RotoMotor 35ccm engine and in-fuselage expansion-pipe.
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