HW 4 FLAMINGO 1:3.5 SCALE

cw · Posté le: 19/07/2009 22:40 Sujet du message: HW 4 FLAMINGO 1:3.5 SCALE

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 Very Happy

de Schaetzen Harold · Posté le: 20/07/2009 09:12 Sujet du message:

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

Regards.

Harold

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Christian_B · Posté le: 20/07/2009 19:10 Sujet du message:

Harold,
I would say it is a Petrel on the picture in your link and not a Flamingo!

Christian

cw · Posté le: 20/07/2009 19:14 Sujet du message:

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...!

caralp_laurent · Posté le: 21/07/2009 09:09 Sujet du message:

Hi Chris,
The Flamingo is a beautiful and a quite unknown glider, good project ! [clap]

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 ! [amen]

Bye

Lolométéo

Anonyme · Serial Posteur Inscrit le: 26 Jan 2006

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 !
best regards Marc

patte de loup · Posté le: 21/07/2009 19:35 Sujet du message:

cw · Posté le: 22/07/2009 22:44 Sujet du message:

Yes Pat, that is very pretty...

Meanwhile, tonight I have finished cutting out all the fuselage parts...
(It still will not stop raining here Crying or Very sad

czirh · Posté le: 23/07/2009 20:49 Sujet du message:

Beautiful birth, beautiful project, Chris .
I like gull wing.

Chris, be my guest ... Today, it was almost 40 degrees C here Laughing

cw · Posté le: 24/07/2009 00:47 Sujet du message:

40 degrees? Too hot to build aeroplanes... Cool

cw · Posté le: 24/07/2009 22:21 Sujet du message:

OK, starting at the beginning, the 1st fuselage 1/2 shell is built up on the board...

cw · Posté le: 26/07/2009 00:17 Sujet du message:

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

cw · Posté le: 30/07/2009 21:22 Sujet du message:

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

cw · Posté le: 02/08/2009 21:07 Sujet du message:

Time now to make the smell that my wife hates... [argh]

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

cw · Posté le: 05/08/2009 19:34 Sujet du message:

Now the front end is completed...

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

cw · Posté le: 06/08/2009 23:18 Sujet du message:

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...

cw · Posté le: 08/08/2009 23:28 Sujet du message:

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 Very Happy

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caralp_laurent · Posté le: 09/08/2009 16:12 Sujet du message:

Yes !

Good job, like the other times. [clap]

Lolométéo

cw · Posté le: 10/08/2009 22:02 Sujet du message:

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...

Walter L. · Posté le: 12/08/2009 18:25 Sujet du message:

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?

regards

Walter

cw · Posté le: 12/08/2009 19:29 Sujet du message:

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...