Windsong...
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Friend got this at an estate sale for like 10 bucks, he stripped the servos
out of her and is giving me the plane. Have not seen it in person yet, just
these same pix/
I would like to know what it is, exactly. Pix at
www.brainmist.com/mark
for the next couple days.
The tail reminds me of an Aquila I used to have, briefly, a long time ago,
or maybe it's an older Dodgeson product, because of the really complicated
linkages for the flaps and ailerons (in one of the pics) . In some pics the fuse
looks like glass, but with an odd squared-off shape to the boom aft the wing.
Might be glassed wood, I dunno. Not the trapezoidal hatch opening in the
center section for some kind of wing attach access Ii suppose.
Appreciate any tips about it at all. All I know is it's an 11-foot wing,
supposedly. And it looks like it would have been a high-end competition ship a
decade or so back. I dunno if there is a canopy for it, but I can make one if
it's missing. I've never flown anything bigger than 2 meters before, mostly
R/E, though I have a little aileron practice in with my foamie, I and don't
have/never done a winch. Not in a club at present either. Would this baby be
hi-startable?
Those linkages look like a lot of weight and possible friction/slop... will
have to check out the action. Maybe I could modernize it and go with
direct-driven under-wing mounted servos? Or would that likely weaken what I'm guessing
is a sheeted white styro wing core, with unknown spars?
Thanks, Mark
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