Fat Squirrel

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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