Monthly Archives: May 2010

Squirrels for Beer Program

Experimental, Gallery, Outreach

One tactic that has help me make refinements to the building instructions is to host various building sessions where I can observe people.

The beer methodology has worked. As you can see here I have recruited two of my unsuspecting friends into building Squirrels by enticing them with a beer.

The young lady was actually booked and we were sitting at the pub near the window when the gentlemen was walking buy. I invited him for a drink and presto! Instant testing subject! You can tell how much fun this session was. 🙂

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Fat Squirrel

Experimental
Fat Squirrel

Here is a variation of the design that flies extremely well. I suppose, it will have a wing loading that is twice as favorable since the wing is about twice as wide. Here are the changes:

-Use 4 inch wing ribs (instead of the three 2 inch ones)
-Use a 6 inch wing mount (instead of the 4 inch one)
-Use a double shim because the wing is wider and needs twice as much shim
-I bottom covered it as per plans, then covered the top. I trimmed the top so that the bottom was used for the winglets as per plans.

The tail looks bigger but that’s just because I cut the tissue on the horizontal stabilizer to an semi-circle rather than a triangle.

On this prototype, I did another thing different. I mounted the toothpick at the very back of the motorstick instead of on the leading edge of the rudder.

 

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Andy Church Squirrels

Gallery

I was at a breakfast business function one morning as I arrived home I noticed a local order for three Squirrels. The order was from Andy Church from Westboro area of Ottawa. I hopped on my motorbike and dropped them off. He gasped when I came to the door as he had just made the order a half hour later.

A short while later I received these pictures and video.

He then came to one of my pub meet-ups in Ottawa to make Squirrels.

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