Monthly Archives: May 2009

John Cooper takes a look at the Squirrel

Outreach, Sighting

John is a model airplane expert from the Ottawa Community.

We had a chance to do a few flights and consider the various design choices. Its great to get review of the design from such an experienced modeller.

John has experience with kids so I value his opinions very highly! He does volunteer work for Cubs.

John’s Web site is on scale modeling and is at scaleflight.net. He has quite an array of amazing models!

Here’s one of several flights I did. It hit the ceiling and then went into the stands. John climbed up the wall to get to the rafters. Thanks John!

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Model Airplane Transport System

Gallery, Outreach

Here’s my Yamaha Scooter that I used to zip around with my model airplanes. I really liked this scooter. It has been replaced by a motorcycle. In retrospect I like the scooter more. I have been eyeballing electric bicycles. I think that would be a great way to zip around.

Here I’m at a park in Rockliffe Park where I know kids in the neighborhood since I used to fly at this park back when I was married.

Note the bankers’ box which is attached by a bungee cord.

This was a great solution till someone stole it (the bike that is). 🙁 It was recovered by the police but they didn’t get around to telling me (depsite telephoning once per day), till the storage bill was more than the bike’s value. The police did more damage than the thief.

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Improved way to mount a wing on a free flight airplane

Experimental

I’ve been working finding better ways of doing things and I found an alternate way of mounting a wing on a stick model. As you can see in the picture, I added a six inch piece of 1/16th inch balsa to the motor stick. I made it perpendicular and top aligned. This also works with one on each side of course, in which case you can leave the motorstick upsidedown on the talbe to dry so ensure that everything is top aligned.

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