SEFLI August 1999 Meeting

As you'd expect for the middle of the flying season, most of the meeting was taken up with flying topics. Tom Hunt led off with a report about the NATS and related stories. He was followed by an extended discussion about the "care and feeding" of local flying fields.

A few people did remember to bring planes to show.

One of them was Mario DiDiego who always has something interesting up his sleeve. This time he brought a small CO₂-powered indoor flyer he designed. He did not spend too much time searching for a name and so the creation ended up called "Airplane". He rigged a very nice throttle control for the motor and he's controlling the plane with a 3-channel Z-TRON infrared Tx / Rx he assembled.

Wingspan is 30" and the weight with 13 CC tank is 2.8 oz. The motor is a G-MOT 120 Twin. Controls are throttle and elevator. The rudder is fixed in flight but has a moveable section so the plane can be trimmed.

Most of the airframe is very conventional balsa structure except that Mario used some fancy-schmacy carbon fiber rods to make the wing mount. The pictures don't show this too well, but upright supports are glued to the side of the fuse and fore-aft and left-right rods tie the 4 uprights together. The rods are attached to each other by tying them with cotton thread and soaking the joints with CA.

Click HERE to see see more about "Airplane" and for a link to Z-TRON.

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