Joe Nall Fly-In
05-23-2004 | 01:18 AM
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Joe Nall Fly-In
I went to the Joe Nall Fly-In, had a lot of fun and took hundreds of photos.
If you want to look at them go here -
http://public.fotki.com/benlanterman...ll_flyin_2004/
If you want to look at them go here -
http://public.fotki.com/benlanterman...ll_flyin_2004/
05-24-2004 | 03:30 PM
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FW-42
Dan Stevens, the builder, who also built the big B-29 that was flow at the Fly-In built it. He said it is one of the many German designs that were on paper as the end of the war. They did indeed seem to have license to investigate extremes of aero configurations. Folke Wulf 42 was the designation and he wanted to see if it would work.
The original design was set up to use up to four verticals if the original two didn't work out. At the size and weight of the model it performed beautifully.
Sure looks funny. Like a stretched bathtub. There doesn't seem to be a lot of styling finesse - of course beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
It is interesting that overall in the course of flight that regardless of how many times a canard has been proposed it has lot out to conventional layouts (with one or two exceptions of course). Maybe the birds had it right to start with.
The original design was set up to use up to four verticals if the original two didn't work out. At the size and weight of the model it performed beautifully.
Sure looks funny. Like a stretched bathtub. There doesn't seem to be a lot of styling finesse - of course beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
It is interesting that overall in the course of flight that regardless of how many times a canard has been proposed it has lot out to conventional layouts (with one or two exceptions of course). Maybe the birds had it right to start with.
