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Guillows Series 4000 - Cloud Buster by simpleflyer. Viewed 516 times.
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| simpleflyer | 06-Sep-10 13:58 | | A closeup of the opposing throughts at 'A3' formed by the overlapping strips in the previous picture. 'B3' shows an edge view. The platforms on the fuselage slide through these spaces. |
| pfinn | 06-Sep-10 15:58 | | Nice. Do you think that having this pretty much indestructable wing attachment may lead to breaks further out along the wing? But still, excellent idea and excecution. By the way, the strongest gussets have the grain running along the edge opposite the joint being reinforced (in this case the hypotenuse). |
| simpleflyer | 07-Sep-10 15:30 | | Thanks, Phil, for your comments. To date, I have not had any major wing breaks in the outer portions of the wing when using the sliding wing mount and the 'heavy duty' wing center section. This was one of the primary reasons for going to removeable wings on the swing control models. In addition to the portability of the model, we discovered that by making the mounting system so that the wing was moveable it sustained less damage in collisions. The sliding wing mount is designed so that the wing is free to move forwards as well as backwards. So far, in nearly all of our collisions we get either one of two conditions. (1) The model hits nose first and the fuselage tends to stop abruptly and the wing moves forward before breaking. (2) The outer wing hits first and stops and the fuselage tends to slide forward. Usually the damage to the wing in either condition is in the outer portions and is relatively small. |
| pfinn | 07-Sep-10 18:48 | | Super! |
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