| Image Comments |
| jgood | 16-Feb-08 12:25 |
| Didn't come out too bad. |
| John M Oshust | 16-Feb-08 14:24 |
| This reult is great. What is the diminutive craft above the wing??? |
| John M Oshust | 16-Feb-08 14:25 |
| The result is great! |
| supercub | 26-Feb-08 07:50 |
| I think the "diminutive craft" is a Plantraco carbon butterfly. |
| jgood | 26-Feb-08 09:28 |
| Yes, Supercub is right. A 3.5gram r/c aircraft which you can fly in your living room (just about). Carbon fiber construction with a carbon fiber prop, covered with mylar. |
| John M Oshust | 26-Feb-08 09:39 |
| That C Butterfly is wonderful...how is it powered? |
| jgood | 26-Feb-08 09:50 |
| See that little silver tube just behind the prop? That's a motor which appears to be quite similar to the type that cause mobile phones to vibrate in silent mode. It's got plenty of power. If you search on youtube, there are videos of them flying. It was a treat to myself after finishing a big project at work; they're pretty expensive. |
| hjlittman | 26-Feb-08 11:43 |
| Cellphone/pager motors are amazingly powerful and for free-flight you don't even need a battery. They will run for minutes on one of the capacitors taken from a Harbor Freight foamy. One of the Black Sheep members flies a peanut scale, R/C PBY (indoors) powered by two of them, and there is one guy working on a conversion of a Dumas "Spruce Goose" to be powered by eight of them. I have a dozen of them in a bag waiting for a project or projects (Hummm...as long as people are doing flying boats, maybe a Dornier DO-X?) |
