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Posté le: 19/07/2009 21:40 Sujet du message: HW 4 FLAMINGO 1:3.5 SCALE |
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Well, it looks like good building weather again. Blowing a gale here today, so I started cutting wood for the Flamingo. It has eveything I like: a gull wing, spoilers... and a wheel


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Dear Chris,
Previous project not yet dry and you start already a new one. You intend to fly in September?
Seems to be an interesting subject.
Can you give some more details about this sailplane?
On the net I found a picture of one from Friedrichshafen exhibition?
http://myaviation.net/search/photo_search.php?id=01304533&size=large
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Posté le: 20/07/2009 18:10 Sujet du message: |
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Harold,
I would say it is a Petrel on the picture in your link and not a Flamingo!
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Posté le: 20/07/2009 18:14 Sujet du message: |
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Elegance, yes...how could I forget!
Harold, I think that is a photo of Graham Saw's Petrel. The two gliders do look similar, but since Belair in the UK produced a kit for the Petrel, there are a lot of them about over here...!



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Posté le: 21/07/2009 08:09 Sujet du message: |
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Hi Chris,
The Flamingo is a beautiful and a quite unknown glider, good project !
I'm fond of the Petrel. My mini 1/10 flies so good, I think I'm gonna build a bigger one. I've thought about painting it blue with a white nose, and then I see your photos, great !!
I've seen the videos of your's in flight, it's magnificent !
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Posté le: 21/07/2009 08:31 Sujet du message: |
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Hi Chris
Nice project, the Flamingo attracted my interest when i discovered Martin Simons' books ; The same as you,this glider has everything I like !
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Yes Pat, that is very pretty...
Meanwhile, tonight I have finished cutting out all the fuselage parts...
(It still will not stop raining here

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Posté le: 23/07/2009 19:49 Sujet du message: |
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Beautiful birth, beautiful project, Chris .
I like gull wing.
Chris, be my guest ... Today, it was almost 40 degrees C here 
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Posté le: 23/07/2009 23:47 Sujet du message: |
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40 degrees? Too hot to build aeroplanes... 
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OK, starting at the beginning, the 1st fuselage 1/2 shell is built up on the board...



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Today, the other half of the fuselage is added...

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To continue with the rear of the fuselage we need the tailplane...





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Time now to make the smell that my wife hates...



Then, the wing joiner box: Two 14mm Graupner brass boxes set for the dihedral and with the boxes crossing over each other to get the maximum length

The completed box is temporarily offered up to the fuselage

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Now the front end is completed...

It is time to work out how the tailplane will sit...


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Time to make up the elevator...


The elevator is made slightly larger than the tailplane and then sanded to match it exactly...

Here the trailing edges are sanded down...

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Before glueing on the lower CTP sheeting, the rudder cable guides must be set up...

Balsa on the inside helps the cyano to grip the guide cable...

Now the sheeting can continue... (by the way, I consider the blood on the fuselage to be good luck. I have bled over most of my models )

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Posté le: 09/08/2009 15:12 Sujet du message: |
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Yes !
Good job, like the other times.
Lolométéo
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Now it is time to make up the elevator actuator...

I have modified my system slightly: now, I make the inside square brass tube 2 sizes smaller than the outside one. This makes setting up much easier and there is less possibilty of the system binding or sticking...



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Posté le: 12/08/2009 17:25 Sujet du message: |
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Chris,
it´s a really nice project! I would like to build this beautiful glider too....
Do you have other documents about the original glider than those in Martin Simon´s book?
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No Walter, I have no other useful information. This time I am producing a plan for the Flamingo, which will be published by Traplet, probably sometime early next year. There will be a canopy available and also a kit of CNC cut parts...
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The fuselage sheeting in CTP is just about complete...


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Moving on now to the fin...

The fin is sheeted with 0.75mm CTP

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The fin will fit thus...

Now for the rudder...




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... your "building-speed" is amazing Chris
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Posté le: 17/08/2009 23:36 Sujet du message: |
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Stephan, the more you do, the less you have to think about it... 
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Posté le: 18/08/2009 16:47 Sujet du message: |
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Now that the tailplane/rudder/fin are completed...

It is time to complete the fuselage



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The filling and sanding of the fuselage is coming along well...

The tail skid is lined with Lithoplate

Rear end just about complete

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Posté le: 21/08/2009 05:49 Sujet du message: flamingo |
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helllo chris, the lithoplate seems to aluminium? or titanium? |
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