Javabeans
30cc
20 years ago there was an article in Model Airplane News about an airplane by Blane Stetler that supposedly handled really well and it included the plans to build it yourself! After reading the article I was immediately hooked and bought all the wood for it, including a set of full size plans and had dreams of building my first RC plane. Forget the fact that I had no idea how to fly... then when I seriously thought about the build I realized that if I put a few weeks or more into building this, I would be quite upset if I crashed it on the first flight!
So I put the materials away and decided to wait until I learned how to fly before trying to build a balsa airplane. Life and my two young boys got in the way and I never quite got around to building my now, dream plane... until a couple weeks ago. My club had a contest for building balsa airplanes from a kit or plans, which was right up my alley and I signed up.
I'll post the pictures I took while building this plane and share some of the thoughts and problems that I ran across. All in all it was a fantastic thing to do. Not just because I finally built the NotForSale, but it actually taught me a bunch of things about building with balsa.
After I finished the NFS I decided to pull out my old GP 540T that had been smashed up when the gear was violently ripped out of it in a somewhat hard landing. In 30 minutes I was able to repair the 540 and make it stronger than it had ever been before... I can now do harrier landings on the gear without any fear of causing more damage and am having a blast flying it.
So I put the materials away and decided to wait until I learned how to fly before trying to build a balsa airplane. Life and my two young boys got in the way and I never quite got around to building my now, dream plane... until a couple weeks ago. My club had a contest for building balsa airplanes from a kit or plans, which was right up my alley and I signed up.
I'll post the pictures I took while building this plane and share some of the thoughts and problems that I ran across. All in all it was a fantastic thing to do. Not just because I finally built the NotForSale, but it actually taught me a bunch of things about building with balsa.
After I finished the NFS I decided to pull out my old GP 540T that had been smashed up when the gear was violently ripped out of it in a somewhat hard landing. In 30 minutes I was able to repair the 540 and make it stronger than it had ever been before... I can now do harrier landings on the gear without any fear of causing more damage and am having a blast flying it.