The Cassutt Racer, a really nice flying no-cal!

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2 ай бұрын

Here's another no-cal, the Cassutt racer, from a plan by Chuck Slusarczyk, available in the plan's gallery at Hip Pocket Aeronautics. Flies like it's on rails! Looking forward to working with it (I don't want to tell you that it's currently in the girders and I haven't been able to get it out). If need be, I'll build another one and even lighten it up a little.

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@curtis5445 2 ай бұрын

It has such a presence in the air. That's the first indoor I've seen that seems " in charge" of the situation rather than waiting in hesitation for the next ripple.

@EleanorPeterson 2 ай бұрын

Agreed. It 'sits' beautifully.🙂 Maybe something to do with the broad, low-aspect-ratio wing?

@domoremath 2 ай бұрын

@@EleanorPeterson Yes the huge wing definitely has something to do with it; I'll be making another example probably in the Fall - the Bonzo racer, also with a huge low AR wing, I'll bet it will fly like the Cassutt, or at least I hope so!

@paulbizard3493 2 ай бұрын

Nice one! 🙂

@archivist17 2 ай бұрын

That's a really great looking plane!

@robertrussellmd 2 ай бұрын

Magnificent build and flight.

@davidquerry8869 2 ай бұрын

I really enjoy your videos

@erdelybela2416 2 ай бұрын

Pure gold! Congratulations!

@harrykeel8557 Ай бұрын

Beautiful flight.

@Gator_Bait_Motorsports 2 ай бұрын

Nice design and construction. Absolutely beautiful flight. I used to build and fly no-cal and penny planes. I don't know where to buy indoor wood and materials anymore.

@domoremath 2 ай бұрын

The nice part about both no-cal and pennyplane is that I basically use light outdoor wood! One can get good quality 5-6 lb. sheets from Easy Built Models; I use indoor wood (.025") for the rolled tubes and prop blades, and you can get that from indoor free flight supply.

@Gator_Bait_Motorsports 2 ай бұрын

@@domoremath Thanks for the info, I'll look them up.

@davidduganne5939 2 ай бұрын

Woohoo! Loving all the nocal content you've posted recently! This one looks really nice, rock solid in the air. I wonder if the (non-scale) long aft fuselage could be shortened up; there's plenty of stab area for a good tail volume, and everything behind the rear hook (fuse. structure and tail boom) would be lighter. That would reduce nose ballast significantly, I would think. I built the Morrow Boo Ray Cassutt years ago, and it flew great, with a more scale-like fuselage (length). Again, the removable wing is a great feature. I ran out of storage space, ended up giving some models away.

@domoremath 2 ай бұрын

I wouldn't shorten the Cassutt, with large low-aspect ratio wings like this you really need enough boom length (as I've found out with pennyplanes), and this is just about enough. Given that it seems I'll have to build another one (tissue already ordered), I can lighten up everything a bit and see what that does, though I think this already can put in impressive times once it's trimmed.

@sandfac3427 2 ай бұрын

Looks like a great flier, and nice building! Hope we can fly again together sometime this year. -Oliver

@domoremath 2 ай бұрын

Hi Oliver - we have the armory until July, you should come by!

@normg2242 2 ай бұрын

Amazing!

@tornagawn 2 ай бұрын

Wow!

@davew3130 2 ай бұрын

Beautiful craftsmanship, hope you can retrieve it from the girders

@domoremath 2 ай бұрын

No luck again this week, those girders are damn deep!

@adcdsasa6526 2 ай бұрын

grat Job man

@EleanorPeterson 2 ай бұрын

Splendid! But what does 'no-cal' mean in this instance? Is it a food reference to 'zero fat' or 'no added sugar', as in low in calories and super lightweight aeromodelling building techniques, or is it something more technical?

@domoremath 2 ай бұрын

No-cal means 'no calories'. The idea is that it is a model of a scale plane, but it has a profile fuselage instead of a built-up fuselage; with that lack of 'calories', one can make the plane very light and get incredible flight times.