Hey Guys,

Where is the best place to attach the leader string for a streamer? The bottom of the fuse at the cg? On the bottom of the fuse somewhere in the tail?

Thanks!

-Dan

On my flying wings I always attach the streamer about 1/4 inch in front of the Hindge line, dead center of the wingspan. On my Quickee 500 airplane I attach the streamer about a 1/2 inch forward of the rear of the body below the horizontal stab. I've neever had a problem attaching the streamer in the rear of any plane I've flown. I personal would never attach it to a vertical stabilizer just in case the string gets janked on, such as in the pit area. You don't want that little surface coming loose in the air.

John Boren

Most of the flyers will just attach the streamer to the vertical stabilizer. I have not found any bad tendencies with doing it this way. The tails are usually made of coroplast and we just poke a hole in the last full flute, so that if the string pull hard enough, it just pulls the string through the flute.

Bob Mayle

I usually tie one end of the string in a noose, then just drape it over the nose in front of the wing. If the string does get a good tug on it, it'll pull at the plane's CG without doing any damage or causing a change of direction.

Be sure to cut yourself a long string (I cut mine to 2 arm-lengths).

HTH,
D

I tie a loop in the string big enough to pass the rolled streamer through, then I run the string around the fuse in front of horizontal/vertical stabs and pass the streamer though the loop. It's fast, and it spreads the load out if it gets pulled.

Another trick that works with coro tails is to screw a round servo wheel to the surface, then tie the string into a loop, then place the loop around the wheel. Very quick, easy and durable.

-Tom

When I can I make the attachment point as near the CG as posible, maybe alittle forward of it, on the top of the fuse (when posible). I do this on the preditor by putting a hole in the coroplast fin wrer I want to put the string. On scale planes I tie a loop around the fuse infront of the wing LE and attach the streamer to that.

The purpose being to make my elevator more effective. When you attach the streamer to the tail the elevator has to fight it, attached at the CG you only see the drag.

Good luck
Joe