It has been a while but my interest has returned to building and flying rc gliders around my local slopes. Have the luxury of living in a valley and can walk to slopes suitable for all wind directions, some are closer than others but the range is from 4-10 mile round trip. so with that in mind want to pack small and travel light. Fed up with smashing my planes up dsing, my interests are now more towards acrobatic gliders, but still like speed! Need to tidy the workshop and get busy building and flying, new content will drop very soon.
Hi, I really enjoyed your video! I just bought my AHI last month and have not hade time to put it together yet. I am thankful you took time to make this video and make thqt long hike to show us.
I may be biased, but think it`s a pretty good area for all wind directions. Hope to feature a few more local slopes in future vids. Thanks for taking a look👍
It is possible, though I do have my own cnc foam cutting machine and a cnc router which I could bolt a laser onto. Hope to do lots of building as I get back into the hobby so you never know.
I think you are perhaps above Pewsey, I used to live in Wilcott, drank at the Barge and flew all over those ridges. Wonderful place for glider guiders.
Haha, its a small world. Have neglected my local slopes for the last 10 years and hardly saw anyone flying. It seems they have not been forgotten though, especially for the large scale gliders as there is some great landing areas. Thanks for the sub, my first for many years.👍
Thanks. Dynamic Soaring: Flying on the back of the hill and accelerating the plane through the wind shear, like this.... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0nyYaL0dGAA.html
your trailing edge is labeled LE-- maybe you had the foam backwards and the wings were not supposed to be straight but rather swept back--thanks for the info though.
I cut my own wings and always put LE on the leading edge, bit like face side face edge for carpenters and joiners. That being said, I was just playing around with planforms, the LE is irrelevant in this context.
Thanks. Built a few windsurf boards in the past, that was by shapping the foam blank with ply stringers and laying up over it. With a mould you should be able to sell a few on the beach if it goes well I used to kitesurf on a flat piece of ply, so a composite board should go fantastic.
Built my own cnc foam cutter, you can see it working on one of my videos, and have been spending most of my time lately getting a cnc router up and running. Thanks for the comment, good to hear you are findingthe vid useful.
This is great stuff, I am building a mould at the moment. I have really struggled to find good stuff that is relevant to what I am making, this is GREAT! (its a kite surf board btw)
Thanks for commenting and glad you have found them useful. I did several videos on joining parts a while ago, they are on my wesite on the wet seams page within the workshop section, with download links at the bottom of the page. A couple of them are to long for utube so have not made it on here. Hope they help you to make some parts
Thanks (belatedly) for this really useful set of videos - very clear and systematic. I've wanted to do this for a while - now I can. But!! - you stopped too short - tell us about how to join the two halves.
