dicknadine

thought that this would be the new model, until I tried to fit the circular 60" wing leading edge into the back seat of the car. door not big enough. another reason for a pick up truck, as dissasembly would be too time comsuming. so will start looking for a replacement, there's plenty of the antique unusual planes out there waiting for me do. dick

gittarpikk

There was one in Popular Mechanics (I think) that was a hoop wing craft....just imagine that one with a perfectly roundf hoop instead of oval. Seems like it had a .020 or .049 for power and was free flight and flew well.,. Had a vertical fin sticking up dead center the top of the hoop and that was used for trim (like an aileron)... Yeah those old designs were quite innovative... Another I remember was a disc wing ... It had a conventional fuselage like a pietenpol air camper except the wing was a round airfoiled disk on a strut aboute the fuselage. Was said to have flown quite well and was sorta stall proof.. I have thought of builting one of each...not sure I could pull up archives that old ...so would have to be from memory alone..

here is a link to a disc wing plane

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/...the-back-yard/

I found a pdf of the plane from PM

While there , there was a cool plane called the blow-bug.... maybe the first ducted plane...who knows... real interesting very old design may have to try a foamy of that one

here is link
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showa...mentid=1991224



cool!
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showa...mentid=1991228


I found the hoopskirt plane!!

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showa...mentid=1991890

Laird SS

Have you seen the Caproni Stipa? Not very antique, but definitely interesting. A replica was constructed and it actually flew.

old git

Hi Gitarpik,

You are too late, Dick built that one about two or three years ago.

dicknadine

Here is today's version, ready to be powered and flown. 16" dia, 12 oz dick