Second and last video on Guillow's relaxing construction. From the test comes out that the plane needs some trimming thats why crashed badly. no matter I have builded and I can fix it! Link to part 1: • Building the Guillow's...
I admire your patience and perseverance. You did a wonderful job building the plane and it held together very well considering the crashes. Those light planes suffer from even the slightest breezes.
Right!! It so long I use to built them not many and not a good airplane engineer but building is so nice and relaxing, than the model is poetry. Ciao!!!
You need to balance the airplane. It looks very tail heavy. It is stalling. If it continues to stall even after balancing try trim tabs on horizontal stabilizer. After you get the glide right then wind in some rubber turns. It will probably need DOWN thrust on prop. The most important thing, TEST FLIGHT OVER TALL GRASS or weeds. A good book to read where all of this is explained is Don Ross' book, Rubber Powered Model Airplanes. Get it on Amazon or Ebay. He explains everything you need to know about construction and flying rubber powered airplanes. Good luck! No use in trying to reinvent the wheel.
My first balsa model was a Guillows P51 in 1969, followed by a Hurricane, Focke Wolf, Thomas Morse Scout and Fokker Dr1 in the 1970s. I now only scratch build because I use micro RC systems to get the flying weight less than 4 or 5 ounces. In the US, the FAA has penalized RCers and require Tracking devices for drones and airplanes above 8.5 ounces. I will sell all of my larger planes becuase of this. Good job on you plane! FYI my neighbor when I was a kid was the famous Bill Stroman who pioneered electric flight in the 1970s. He was known for his beautiful electric Taube monoplane which was featured on the cover of Model Builder magazine.
Hi there Giovanni, lots of wonderful work, it’s a great looking model airplane. Even though it perhaps doesn’t fly very well, it’s a great looking static model and you’ve put so, so much great work into the plane, it would look very nice perhaps hanging in a position inside, as though it was performing some acrobatic manoeuvre. Looks great, well done. Take care and best wishes to you and the family. Ciao John😊
Pilots typically fly into the wind for takeoff to reduce ground speed, but for these small, fragile models I would fly with the wind on maiden test runs to avoid lift-related stalls due to wind gusts. This way, you have a better chance of making trim changes before the model gets damaged. Also, if the model tends to bank steeply right away to one side, that's your queue to fix the problem by adding plasticine weight on the tip of the wing with the greater lift. Finally, strut-based wing joints are pretty weak overall with these Guillow kits. I would add one or two straight-through cylindrical balsa spar(s) to secure the wings better to the fuselage. This will aid in reducing wing separation during unexpected hard landing events.
Guillow models are tops. They have been for almost 100 years. The company will turn 100 next 2026. It has always been located in Wakefield Mass. in the USA. . Guillow scale models do flew beautifully BUT it is much better to lighten all balsa sheets from 1.5mm to 1 mm thickness. You save a lot of weight.
Greeting! I have built those Guillow's 300 series airplanes about 30 years ago and have come to the conclusion that they are difficult to make fly well. Air resistance is high in these models and the extra finishing makes them easily too heavy. To get them to fly even reasonably well, remove the excess balsa from inside the fuselage and wing curves, but be careful not to weaken their structure too much. Build the support strips under the wings approx. 5 mm longer than the original ones and tilt the first wing curve of the wing 2-3 mm "inwards" so that the wing has a sufficient V-angle (dihedral) so that the aircraft does not fall on its wing during flight. By the way, there is a note about this in the drawing. Brush only two thin layers of dope on the surface of the plane, so that it does not become too heavy. Already in the construction phase, check that the angle between the wing and the rudder is about 3-4 degrees. Balaced it well and perform test flights without revolutions of the rubber band engine on a gentle downhill in a grassy meadow in as windless a weather as possible. Good luck!
Also this is my second and the first I built 46 years ago. I covered with terrible orange termo plastic film and that was the beginning of the end up to destroy ti to trash. That's why now you can se this. Thanks and Ciao Nanni
Great video, I would add more dihedral to the wings. Also would recommend Tan SuperSporr Rubber (FAI) as a power source. If you mentioned it, I must’ve missed that. Edit: add some tail weight or warp the elevators for a more smooth flight. If stalls add weight to the nose (you probably know that) definitely needs dihedral. Great work!
Thanks a lot for watching and suggestions specially about rubber band that I found at The Vintage Model Company UK, now the problem is the size for Guillow'S.... Ciao, Nanni
It looks really cool and you did a wonderful job building it. Too bad you did not get a good flight out of it and it broke but i am sure you will quickly get it sorted out quickly!
I have the Fairchild 24 kit no.701 but I want to make it rc with the micro controls and lithium batteries for light weight. The wing spand is 25in - 63.5cm i think it will be grand and I will crash and brake its part of the hobby!! We love it.
