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| hjlittman | HJL Models F2A Buffalo | Parked | 30-Jul-13 12:30 |  | | Views : 1089 | | "No-Cal" Fokker F.36 one off for a local indoor contast last Saturday night. The contest was "Two, Three, or Four Off The Floor", for multi-motored rubber powered models, R.O.G. Placed 2nd in 4 motor category. |
| hjlittman | HJL Models F2A Buffalo | Parked | 17-Jul-13 18:19 |  | | Views : 1066 | | This is the production version of the F2A No-Cal. It is an unhurried 2 hour build using C/A and kicker and applying the skins with Uhu glue stick. This example took about five minutes to trim, needing just a bit of clay and bendint the thrust mount for a tight left turn. 450 turns on a loop of 3/32" rubber had it cruising around under a 23 foot ceilint. 500 turns was too much so 1/16" rubber will be used to reduce the climb and get longer flights. |
| hjlittman | HJL Models F7U Cutlass | Parked | 08-Jul-13 22:45 |  | | Views : 1080 | | This is the final version. The only change to be made is the substitution of a machine nut for the five BBs used as nose weight. I've discovered that I can't ship BBs in the kit since that constitutes "shipping amunition through the mails". Had this one cruising around 41 feet off the floor. |
| hjlittman | HJL Models F7U Cutlass | Parked | 08-Jul-13 22:38 |  | | Views : 929 | | Line up of survivors of the 8 prototypes. The fun flyer, second from the bottom, called the WingyThingy, was scavanged from an earlier Cutlass to test the new wing design. |
| hjlittman | HJL Models F7U Cutlass | Parked | 31-May-13 20:07 |  | | Views : 882 | | This is not scale or even semi-scale, but a "looks like it could have been" model. I decorated mine after a Bleriot-Spad 510 of the mid 1930's. Didn't get it trimmed in time for the contest, but got to fly it outdoors before the wind came up this morning and it is really a good performer at 20 grams, |
| hjlittman | HJL Models F7U Cutlass | Parked | 31-May-13 20:03 |  | | Views : 951 | | This is a brief pause in my Cutlass development. It is a Bill Hannan design called the FAR-MAN and was done for a local, one-design, indoor contest. Takes a couple of hours to build and once you get it trimmed flies amazingly well. |
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| hjlittman | HJL Models F7U Cutlass | Flying | 31-May-13 19:58 |  | | Views : 894 | | One of my neighbors took this on my block. He was taking pictures of some unusual birds in the nieghborhood when he looked up, and as he put it, there it was. |
| hjlittman | Guillows 25H-15 Vaught F7U Cutlass | Parked | 12-Apr-13 19:50 |  | | Views : 1469 | | Later F7U Improvements still coming |
| hjlittman | Guillows 25H-15 Vaught F7U Cutlass | Build | 13-Mar-13 22:40 |  | | Views : 1269 | | Improved version of F7U. Reflexed airoil, larger elevons, dihedral in outer panels. Still not ready for prime time. Further redesign in the works. |
| hjlittman | Guillows 25H-15 Vaught F7U Cutlass | Parked | 06-Mar-13 16:29 |  | | Views : 1308 | | This is what the Viggen looks like finished. Spent a fustrating morning at Stonehurst trying to trim it to fly. It's a lot stronger than it looks. |
| hjlittman | Guillows 25H-15 Vaught F7U Cutlass | Build | 03-Mar-13 15:09 |  | | Views : 1350 | | My wife looked at it and said it looks like a cartoon. Since a no-cal IS a cartoon of an airplane I suppose that was a complement. |
| hjlittman | Guillows 25H-15 Vaught F7U Cutlass | Build | 03-Mar-13 15:07 |  | | Views : 1317 | | Since the root chord of the wing is over 13 inches long I had to use a 2 foot square piece of plywood to pin down the wing while shrinking. |
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