slackdaddy
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Top Quality components,
Had my reservations while "test glidding"
Turned out to be a real crowd pleaser, I am ordering 2 more.
The laser cut balsa is the best "precut" balsa of any rocket kit I have seen. Instructions are good, You need a steady hand to put this together and keep everything square.
The kit comes with some clay to balance (glide). it says to add some to nose or wings. before gluing the nose cone on I drilled it out a little so it would not be nose heavy, I did not want to stick clay on My freshly painted gliders wings.
As hard as I tried, I could not get it to glide good hand launching it in the yard or from the roof. it either stalled or nose dived.
The joint between the wings and struts cracked, so I reglued all the wing joints and put oversized fillets, no more problems.
I added a little clay weight to the nose to get rid of any hint of stalling, but was getting conflicting results with My hand launches,
so I decided to launch it in the front yard with an A8-3 and see how it acted.
It's glide slope was good but it made tight circles to the left, I added some epoxy to the right side fillets and launched agian, it glided some what strait, but had a slight stall, after getting it out of the tree I added a small BB of clay into the nose, and shelved it till the MDRA launch.
MDRA launch (HPR EX style launch) - Middle of cut farmers field, good wind.
I put it up on an A8-3, ejection, 1 roll, then it just hung there in the sky facing into the wind did not even move for 5 seconds, then made lazy, large circles back down. had a number of people ask where I got it.
Next on a B6-4, This thing just hung up in the air forever, slow gracefull glider. Agian a number of people ask where I got it
Next C6-3, I followed it for about a 1/4 mile, but it actully appeared to gain Alt over the next field, last I saw it, it has just hanging up in the sky, drifting away
Ordering 2 more,
How about an up scale ??
Slack
Had my reservations while "test glidding"
Turned out to be a real crowd pleaser, I am ordering 2 more.
The laser cut balsa is the best "precut" balsa of any rocket kit I have seen. Instructions are good, You need a steady hand to put this together and keep everything square.
The kit comes with some clay to balance (glide). it says to add some to nose or wings. before gluing the nose cone on I drilled it out a little so it would not be nose heavy, I did not want to stick clay on My freshly painted gliders wings.
As hard as I tried, I could not get it to glide good hand launching it in the yard or from the roof. it either stalled or nose dived.
The joint between the wings and struts cracked, so I reglued all the wing joints and put oversized fillets, no more problems.
I added a little clay weight to the nose to get rid of any hint of stalling, but was getting conflicting results with My hand launches,
so I decided to launch it in the front yard with an A8-3 and see how it acted.
It's glide slope was good but it made tight circles to the left, I added some epoxy to the right side fillets and launched agian, it glided some what strait, but had a slight stall, after getting it out of the tree I added a small BB of clay into the nose, and shelved it till the MDRA launch.
MDRA launch (HPR EX style launch) - Middle of cut farmers field, good wind.
I put it up on an A8-3, ejection, 1 roll, then it just hung there in the sky facing into the wind did not even move for 5 seconds, then made lazy, large circles back down. had a number of people ask where I got it.
Next on a B6-4, This thing just hung up in the air forever, slow gracefull glider. Agian a number of people ask where I got it
Next C6-3, I followed it for about a 1/4 mile, but it actully appeared to gain Alt over the next field, last I saw it, it has just hanging up in the sky, drifting away
Ordering 2 more,
How about an up scale ??
Slack