Stuart,
I am new to the WW so others may have better answers to your
questions. But for what it is worth:
Yes, drop by your friendly hobby shop; who knows you may find some other
neat stuff to build with your 5-year old!
It is a pretty tiny plane and you will be able to build a bunch of
them with little cost. Ask for a sheet of 1/16" and another 1/8" thick
balsa. It'll come about 3" X 36" Some glue is also needed. CA is like
Super Glue - works quick but can be a real problem gluing your own
fingers. I would not recommend it around a five year old! If you do use
it be careful and buy the thick stuff. You'll also need a single edge
razor blade or an E-ACTO knife. Hum-m-m have you considered Leggo) You can
get clay at most toy stores cheap. Good luck and e-mail me your longest
flights - time in the air and distance. REMEMBER contest is on the 26th so
the flights have to be on that day.
Jack
At 07:56 AM 12/22/2000 -0500, you wrote:
I downloaded the plans and I am going to build a few with my 5 year old this
weekend.
Question: what are the best sources of supplies? Do I need to get to a
hobby
shop to buy the balsa, or is there another source (I assume Home Depot
doesn't
have it)? And for the nose weight - a good cheap source? I have to buy
everything so I might as well get the cheapest stuff I can - plumbers putty?
= Original Message From "Harley Michaelis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
Hi Joel. . .I messed with reduced decalage, rounded LE's, rounded tips,
swept tips, thinned tips and thinned stabs, smaller stabs, airfoiled stabs,
airfoiled wings, longer nose moment arms, shorter nose moment arms, longer
fuselages, slimmer fuselages, more dihedral, less dihedral, shorter center,
longer tips, longer center, shorter tips, lighter balsa, heavier balsa,
etc. and still barely broke 10 seconds, so the secret of better performance
as Tom and others have experienced still escapes me.
Maybe after this next contest is finished, the leaders will be kind enough
to pass on their techniques in building or launching for the rest of us
underachievers. I can't recall who it was, but while one of the numerous
Whizzes built performed notably better than the others, said he could not
really say why. I do know that best performance is related to bank angle,
launch angle and launch speed that gets maximum height and gives a nice
transition at the top into a flat glide. Hard to quantify. The little
things move so fast, I don't even know where they are heading right after
launch!
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From: Joel A. Foner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Harley Michaelis [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Gordon McArthur [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jack Gross
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tom Broeski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: WHIPPER WHIZ INTERGALACTIC CONTEST!
Date: Thursday, December 21, 2000 9:09 PM
I've posted this to the Charles River Whipper Whiz page and rearranged
the
page a bit to have a Contest Results and Rules section for on-going
additions. I also added this as a home page link to drum up some
interest!
(Maybe get someone in the running against you "pro's"!)
Our four and seven year olds love their Whiz's, but they're nowhere near
the
current records... Across the living room and hit the wall at four feet
height is their idea of fun! Maybe we'll try for a design that'll do a
ridiculous number of loops or something ;)
What are people doing to these to hit the latest crop of distance and
duration records? Closer to zero/zero alignment, from the looks of
Cliff's
pictures - anything else? Airfoiled wing and tail? Got any design tips
to
post?
In any case, the updated page is at:
(the following URL should be all on one line)
http://www.charlesriverrc.org/articles/whipperwhiz/whipperwhiz_2000contest3.
htm
Regards and happy holidays,
Joel
Joel Foner
Webmaster - Charles River Radio Controllers
http://www.charlesriverrc.org/
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