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I know what you mean Mike. For the Primus shots on my web-site I had to bring the plane in low and slow. My wife would track it with the camera and fire away. In all we took over a 100 pictures just to get 5-7 presentable shots. I nearly had to clean my pants a few times as I was flying uncomfortably low/slow to get some of those pictures.
Curare - Canadian Nats - Gimli - 1978. This same runway was also used to land a Boeing Airliner when it ran out of fuel over twenty years ago and had to abort to Gimli. http://www.silhouet.com/motorsport/tracks/gimli.html
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This Curare is owned by one of the RCU members down in Texas. I identified it in the photos on the forum on "Lets see your workshop". I saw this model hanging from the ceiling of the RC Hobby Shop in Sugarland, TX in March of this spring while I was in Houston on company business. I had sometime on the weekend to pursue some of the hobby shops and rc fields. Over the last three years I've managed to make it to the NHRC, Space City RC and Dick Scobee RC Field in George Bush Park. All very great facilities, can not even find anything at Home to compare too. 12 months of flying. You've got to love that.
I think the wings and fuse are just one color on the bottom to get a bit off contrast to see what is the top and bottom off the plane.But thats just what i think.
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I am investigating some of the Boo-boos on the M.A.N. plans for the Curare'
In the sideview, the wing is shown with a chord of about 14 inches. In the top view of the wing, it measures just a bit bigger than 13 inches. The typical sections shown on the same plan give the chord of about 13 1/2 inches.
Does anyone have a handle as to the actual or measured wing chord at the centerline? I know already the notes on the plan are inaccurate.
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William, I just took some measurements off the MAN plan. If you look at the area where the dive brake is on the wing plan view, you will see a dotted line that is the TE of the foam core. I you extend that dotted line to the center line of the wing and measure from that intersection to the back edge of the LE it comes to around 11 3/8" My guess is that this is close to correct and that the fuselage elevation view is too large. Hope that helps. Still, I find that these magazine plans tend to have errors. I'd be curious to know how many Curares Prettner built and how each one differed. No telling what the various kits were based on. There's another kit being sold in Germany, too.
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I don't get it....how difficult would it be for MAN to make the Minare plans available? Anyway, Does anyone have the dimensions: WS, root chord, tip and fuse length????
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Minare wing root as shown on plans: just under 12 3/8" tip as shown on plans: approx 8.5"
It's hard to get it exact since the core templates don't really match the rest of the plans. It's the same issues found in the Curare plans. You just have to build the fuselage wing saddle to fit the wing.
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Don't forget that the wing section on the fuselage side view is usually not the root section when it comes to tapered wings. It's the section at the side of the fuselage, which is a bit shorter than the root is.
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