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I came across this great video of flying model planes. It has some airplanes with the tail of a Squirrel and a few Squirrels flying in different environments. It has a great instructional section on building! I believe this is Slater Harrison's project.
At the ScienceToyMaker Website run by Slater Harrison there is a great set of instructions for building a propeller for your Squirrel or any other small project.
(2009-05-17)
After attending two mini-workshops, Joanne is now an expert at building Squirrels.
I had the pleasure of building some Squirrels with Jack, Dianna and Joanne Parenteau from Alberta over the Mother's Day weekend. It was a lot of fun. We came up with an interesting idea of looking at the rubber that is used in textiles for elastic motors.
Darcy:
All 3 fly superbly. So much so, I am thinking about adding dethermalizers to keep them from flying away. All three have excellent weight-to-wing area ratios(below .3 grams/sq. in.) with the largest the best at .28 grams/sq. in. From smallest to largest, the wingspans are 10 in., 20 in. and 36 in., with weights of 10 grams, 24 grams and 50.8 grams respectively.
Once again, well done!
Cheers
George has sent in this great video of a Squirrel. He also sent a collection of pictures of some cool new designs that were inspired by the Squirrel design. (Coming soon).
Squirrels Spotted in a great video on building model airplanes!
Best way to make a propeller for a model airplane!
Joanne Parenteau's Squirrel
Joanne and her friend model a new Squirrel. I especially like the print of the Last Supper in the background. :) I'm still awaiting flying reports. :)
George Clark, Square Squirrel (2007-05-11)
How do you like this modification of the Squirrel? Test flights have been very promising, but it is too windy at present to really wind it up. 14 in. square wing, with 196 square in. of wing area. Add to that a weight of 25 grams, including rubber and the wing loading is a mere .127 grams/sq. in.
Cheers
George
Mr. and Mrs. Jack and Dianna Parenteau and Joanne Parenteau from Alberta (2009-05-11)
A Trio of Squirrels, George Clarke from BC (2009-05-09)
George Clarke
Fly Away Squirrel by George Clarke, BC (2009-05-07)
Flying Machines (2009-05-07)
There was a brief review of the Squirrel at Flying Machines.
Weight less than 10 grams.
A really perfect design:
simple, easy to build and it flies very well!
The biggest problem for me was to "translate" the inches into metric measures.
The building itself is VERY easy and takes less than 1 hour.
