No, I don't think anything has ended, but it sure has started! I can't wait to fly them together!

We had fun with that. Other than the terrible weather of course. ;)

Take your time and enjoy the process. Thanks for your work on the Aleda; I'm planning to make some updates based on your findings. :)

Yeah, I've found 1/4 balsa to be handy for bigger gliders. I have a few videos of DLGs I've built with 1/4" balsa on my channel.

Thanks! It was practically filmed on a potato. 😅

Goldberg made some great stuff. I had the "elektra" but made it a bunjee launched glider, with a balsa nose. It was my first build, and after 3 months i did a competition with it and i won. I kicked the european f3j champ his ass with my cute balsa rc glider🤣 I really miss that glider, but it never survived a midair with a 6kg acro glider

Oh it could definitely do that with the relevant retrimming, but that wasn't really the goal here. More than likely this model will end up converted to traditional discus launch once I've had my fun with it.

I think it is fun to build and fly models that are not for competition. I want to get the rocket glider kit going now that Nats are over but I have some repairs to do.

It's important to have a lot of different options, and to show the goofy stuff that we do when the flight cards have all been taken up. It also provides a chance to push the performance of our planes and explore ideas that get ruled out by competition formats.

tomshiba51 it can, but in this case it was a matter of not having any 6" wide wood.

We'll see what happens. It's a good bit of work to source the necessary wood and tapered carbon booms, so I need a fair number of folks expressing interest before I can begin pursuing it.

Build it and they will come. Trust me on this.

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Honestly I haven't been able to tell a difference. Shiny definitely looks better though, if you can get a smooth covering job.

@@joshuawfinn Thanks for the response, will probably try shiny (i.e. Oracover Lite as opposed to tissue on my next glider).

carl crutchfield I'll do that. :)

@@joshuawfinn awesome

We definitely had fun with this one!

The bigger the better!

Maybe a gram or so. Sealing with varnish usually adds 4-5g on a model this size, paint is applied very thinly, just enough to give it some color.

AlpineMusicSchool I want video when you do it! :)

I've got several videos showing the trimming. This one was just goofing around so we weren't really doing trimming work.

Not sure...bigger is potentially dangerous.

Herb, I'm pretty sure I remember you. Silver propellers, right?

@@joshuawfinn Josh I think you are right It was either a Golywoog or a Jabberwock One was a freewheeler or a folder painted silver The best 3 flyers I ever built the other was the Senator In all my years of free flight ,rubber was the most joy and the most challenging to me But you are very special person and your continuing development is a joy to me And now you have your own family, free flight forever Sincerely Herb

David Davids, sorry, but those are opinions. Ones which violate 70 years of history in catapult launched free flight models. When you exceed Stan Buddenbohm's and Lee Hines's contest records, you can then claim something other than opinion status.

To those watching, here is a breakdown of the above:1. Four panel wings have been used on almost every US and UK outdoor Nats winner for at least the past 15 years. The Cat III and IV US and FAI indoor records are all held by aircraft with four panel wings.2. The pultruded boom on this glider is too weak, as I mentioned in the video. CF however is the absolute best material for fuselages, period. I don't know of a single Nats winner or record setting glider in the past 20 years that has not used a carbon tailboom. In some cases, the entire fuselage has been carbon, such as in Jim Buxton's record smashing Amalgam.3. There is no slower wing profile for outdoor flying than the Stanfoil. It is the best airfoil ever produced for lightweight outdoor gliders under 1m wingspan.4. The tail moment arm is well within the statistical norms for Nats winning catapult gliders for the past 3 decades.5. No competitive glider since at least 1935 has used a Clark Y wing. It is wholly inadequate for the flight profile of a catapult or hand launched glider and is hopelessly outdated even on towline and similar models (but at least isn't quite as terrible in that case). The accepted optimum high point on HLG and CLG models under 1 meter span is 25% chord.If you are wondering why such a fierce reply, well, I'll tell you: you came across as a self proclaimed expert commenting on a video beginners are likely to view. The information you presented directly contradicts the past 70 years of slow speed aerodynamics research, and I cannot allow that type of thing to go unchallenged in this context.

your reply is Irrelevant. you can KEEP your effing categories. my OBSERVATIONS are Not opinions. jeez. just how does one 'violate history'. lmao.

Fine, David, please share your competition history and your engineering qualifications.

fine. you are just another Pea-brain, who is UNABLE to accept FACTS when they are CLEARLY stated a pea-brain who thinks irrelevant facts are Somehow RELEVANT. a pea-brain who thinks 'lashing out' is Acceptable, ADULT behavior. this reflects the intellectual capacity, of an EIGHT-YEAR OLD child. biteme

kardRatzinger it's actually a 1973 Caterpillar 951 Trakloader that I use to keep the driveway clear. Yes, we seriously live that far out in the sticks.

Time's up. I have begun removing comments added by you. Either behave or it gets worse from here.