Gents,

Designing and building.

Imagination, sketches, calculations, drawings, visualization. It is an important step by step process of realization of a new object, mechanism, circuit or plane.
Imagination and sketches sometimes are steps I make in the middle of the night, just as prototyping.
Can it work, how does it looks like, what is a value or dimension, would it be nice?

Example:
Would it be nice to have a Simla on the next vintage meeting in 2011 and how does it looks like.


For the spectators:

Simla, third Taurus and most modern contest Taurus ever, special designed for proportional radio and the pattern program of the period 1965 and later.
All airfoils are fully sheeted and the plane is designed for a side mounted 0.60 cu / 10 cc engine.
On the picture, my copy of the Simla of Ed Kazmirkski, one of the Simla’s of the past and of course also a Detroit winner. This is a “study picture”, so this Simla deliberately does NOT fit in original pictures!! In the future I will prove, it is a whisper of a penny to build the exact copy,
For me it will be again an interesting process of learning and combine all kind of methods to do my hobby, rebuild the original pattern planes.
With “one of the Simla’s of the past”, I ask the special attention for the fact, there were more Simla’s!!

Angles do not play with us, we play with angles.

We do not find a development story of the Simla, but did the plane drop of the air? No again of course not! The design process of the Simla did already start with the realization of the Oldest Taurus on Earth, spring, summer 1961. That’s the reason the crate of Africa is also the cradle of the Simla. What’s my profit? I know any detail of that crate and so also the cradle of the Simla and do not have to guess or make choices as others have to, so angles do not play with us but we play with angles.

Visualization

Visualization, one of the nicest steps in designing. Building the plane already and share it with other modelers, without dust, before the final realization.
Realization? Ed already did show the plane was successful so we, Hanna and I, don’t hurry.

Cees