Oh f1n are great! I have built them from scratch and it only took about a week if you work everday 2 hours. The only difference is that i made the vertical stabilisator all from balsa. I actually went to couple competitions of f1n and got 1.place almost every time. Over all these are very cool and easy to fly. Btw love your vids!!!
Very nice,looks like grey depron used for underfloor heating,a lot finer than the white material,that is going to be a stunning flyer,I think I will make a replica but mine will have to be for calm evenings as nowhere to fly indoors. Nose buffer looks like kite end stops for carbon rods. Orbital hand sanders work on depron finishing off by hand with large sanding block.
Wonderful aircraft! It's so nice to have a very informative English video of this style of F1N after watching countless videos in Russian and Czech and trying to understand what was going on! I've always thought these aircraft were so cool, but haven't known enough to build one myself. Now that you've made a nice build video, I think I could fathom trying to replicate this aeronautical wizardry! 😂 This is high on my to-do list as soon as I get back to the states. :)
Ross Clements and I were wondering when you were gonna see this. :-D Glad this gives some insight. Take a look through the plans over on indoornewsandviews.com too, especially the stuff that's come out over the past two years. Kurt Krempetz is killing it with the new planes he's building.
Nice. Thanks for the link, I'll have a look! :) Couple questions about this aircraft: what is the thickness of the wing leading edge balsa? and is that a tapered fuselage? What is the thickness of the vertical stab?
Very cool. One might have to get put into the build queue. We have semi-regular access to a small gym now for indoor flight during the winter months. We had our first day last Wednesday and got in some great helicopter flights.
I generally use a carefully honed plane to avoid gouging soft balsa, but yes, it's just a block plane. The Bruce Kimball planes are my preference these days though since they work so well on balsa.
I want to learn everything about chuck gliders. All the science behind them, the physics , aerodynamics and all that. Could someone please suggest me some reliable resources?
that looks awesome! I think I might have to fiddle with a F1N this winter. I have a hotwire cutter that lets me cut foam down to .020" or so and more in increments of available music wire sizes :). I can send you some to try in your Scioly glider or whatever if you want.
Yup, I'm in. :) I need to send you a couple Std CLG flappers when I get a chance. Just designed a new one that comes out around 2.2g with careful sanding.
@@joshuawfinn Sweet! The sheets don't always come out flat but I believe they can be baked between 2 sheets of glass to straighten them out, I will have to do some experimenting. I'll get some foam .020-.040" or so cut out and sent to you in the next week or so. I did build the Carbonette 8 and 12, I got the 8 trimmed out fairly well, but I havent figured out the 12 yet, just have to keep fiddling. CLG gliders are surprisingly fun!
@@rossclements8874 CLG is fantastically fun! I can't remember if I sent you the long tailed C12 or the new shorter one. I'll have to send you the SO version. It's lighter, shorter, and just flies amazing. Definitely good for a lot more than just SO students.
@@joshuawfinn I think it is the long tailed version. On the first night out I didn't dope it because there wasn't much daylight left. Of course, it was super humid and the model wouldn't hold the trim. I noticed that the fuse would bend really easily and hold the bend, and due to me not knowing how to trim something, a few vertical dives at the beginning didn't help. It is now clad in carbon and I think I'm going to dope it tonight. Seeing copterdude's models also has me motivated to get something built, just need to find a flying site close by with regular access.
@@rossclements8874 Yeah wet gliders fly like crap. ;) Copterdude is definitely inspiring all of us. Speaking of which, I'm surprised he hasn't showed up here yet.
Cool, Josh! I really like these things and would like to try them, but the venues here run only about 7.6 meters - low Cat 1. I'd probably be able to get the glider at a slightly lower price due to the shorter distance. Is that an AMAZOOM on the wall in the last frames?
This model would be perfect in a site that low. That's actually a hair higher than the outer area in St. Luke's. And yup, that's an unfinished Amazoon 1300 that Frank Hodson started.
ChuckPlains they're fantastic airplanes! If you run into problems getting one from Mikhail, shoot me an email through jhaerospace.com and I'll put you on the waiting list for a domestically produced version I'm working on.
If you follow the links in the description there is some instruction on getting access to kits. Alternatively order a Super Cat's Meow kit from jhaerospace.com
Hey would you design a dollar tree foamcore board chuck glider for your flight test fans out there? Something we can build for/with our kids to get them into the hobby without breaking the bank. Lol naked baby!
Oh f1n are great! I have built them from scratch and it only took about a week if you work everday 2 hours. The only difference is that i made the vertical stabilisator all from balsa. I actually went to couple competitions of f1n and got 1.place almost every time. Over all these are very cool and easy to fly. Btw love your vids!!!
Very nice,looks like grey depron used for underfloor heating,a lot finer than the white material,that is going to be a stunning flyer,I think I will make a replica but mine will have to be for calm evenings as nowhere to fly indoors.
Nose buffer looks like kite end stops for carbon rods.
Orbital hand sanders work on depron finishing off by hand with large sanding block.
Wonderful aircraft! It's so nice to have a very informative English video of this style of F1N after watching countless videos in Russian and Czech and trying to understand what was going on! I've always thought these aircraft were so cool, but haven't known enough to build one myself. Now that you've made a nice build video, I think I could fathom trying to replicate this aeronautical wizardry! 😂 This is high on my to-do list as soon as I get back to the states. :)
Ross Clements and I were wondering when you were gonna see this. :-D
Glad this gives some insight. Take a look through the plans over on indoornewsandviews.com too, especially the stuff that's come out over the past two years. Kurt Krempetz is killing it with the new planes he's building.
Nice. Thanks for the link, I'll have a look! :)
Couple questions about this aircraft: what is the thickness of the wing leading edge balsa? and is that a tapered fuselage? What is the thickness of the vertical stab?
Very cool. One might have to get put into the build queue. We have semi-regular access to a small gym now for indoor flight during the winter months. We had our first day last Wednesday and got in some great helicopter flights.
Very cool! A couple years ago i was looking into f1n but had a hard time finding good info on it. I'll have to check out the links you shared. Thanks!
Johnathan Olsen, the more the merrier! Glad to help you on your journey. :)
What a great model , it has the shape of a Bird.
Wauw like 2 build one in the future, first some easy models.
Thanks .....
Hi! New to the channel and haven't seen many of your build videos. At 12:14 are you using a regular block plane for the leading edge?
I generally use a carefully honed plane to avoid gouging soft balsa, but yes, it's just a block plane. The Bruce Kimball planes are my preference these days though since they work so well on balsa.
Hi Joshua, great video and plane. I just wanted to know what the fibreglass that you used with the backing on it is called? Thanks
I want to learn everything about chuck gliders. All the science behind them, the physics , aerodynamics and all that. Could someone please suggest me some reliable resources?
Shibu Nagendran amaglider.com is a great place to start. :)
@@joshuawfinn thanks a lot. Let me check.
that looks awesome! I think I might have to fiddle with a F1N this winter. I have a hotwire cutter that lets me cut foam down to .020" or so and more in increments of available music wire sizes :). I can send you some to try in your Scioly glider or whatever if you want.
Yup, I'm in. :) I need to send you a couple Std CLG flappers when I get a chance. Just designed a new one that comes out around 2.2g with careful sanding.
@@joshuawfinn Sweet! The sheets don't always come out flat but I believe they can be baked between 2 sheets of glass to straighten them out, I will have to do some experimenting. I'll get some foam .020-.040" or so cut out and
sent to you in the next week or so.
I did build the Carbonette 8 and 12, I got the 8 trimmed out fairly well, but I
havent figured out the 12 yet, just have to keep fiddling. CLG gliders are surprisingly fun!
@@rossclements8874 CLG is fantastically fun! I can't remember if I sent you the long tailed C12 or the new shorter one. I'll have to send you the SO version. It's lighter, shorter, and just flies amazing. Definitely good for a lot more than just SO students.
@@joshuawfinn I think it is the long tailed version. On the first night out I didn't dope it because there wasn't much daylight left. Of course, it was super humid and the model wouldn't hold the trim. I noticed that the fuse would bend really easily and hold the bend, and due to me not knowing how to trim something, a few vertical dives at the beginning didn't help. It is now clad in carbon and I think I'm going to dope it tonight.
Seeing copterdude's models also has me motivated to get something built, just need to find a flying site close by with regular access.
@@rossclements8874 Yeah wet gliders fly like crap. ;)
Copterdude is definitely inspiring all of us. Speaking of which, I'm surprised he hasn't showed up here yet.
Cool, Josh! I really like these things and would like to try them, but the venues here run only about 7.6 meters - low Cat 1. I'd probably be able to get the glider at a slightly lower price due to the shorter distance. Is that an AMAZOOM on the wall in the last frames?
This model would be perfect in a site that low. That's actually a hair higher than the outer area in St. Luke's.
And yup, that's an unfinished Amazoon 1300 that Frank Hodson started.
Does it come with a B R A?
Hmm, maybe I'll get one of these.
ChuckPlains they're fantastic airplanes! If you run into problems getting one from Mikhail, shoot me an email through jhaerospace.com and I'll put you on the waiting list for a domestically produced version I'm working on.
Plan PDF download?
Here is a set of plans: www.modelbouwforum.nl/threads/f1n-tit-indoor-zwever.246999/
Thanks
Olá manda as medidas...ai na descrição
Niiiice! God bless bro
Thank you! God bless you too!
where do I buy it?
If you follow the links in the description there is some instruction on getting access to kits. Alternatively order a Super Cat's Meow kit from jhaerospace.com
Hey would you design a dollar tree foamcore board chuck glider for your flight test fans out there? Something we can build for/with our kids to get them into the hobby without breaking the bank.
Lol naked baby!
MrArcher0 I'll take a look at doing that. ;)
joshuawfinn Thank you! I know you’re busy.
I will gladly link anything you make along those lines to Filtetest
geeee guy we know ya wanna fly it but why in the world would you fly even test glide something that fragile with all those hard obsticles around
Those who wait to get to a perfect flying site get beaten by those willing to fly under the conditions they're stuck with. ;)
In Europe, a t i t is a little tiny bird. XD
frogsoda, thank you. It most definitely doesn't mean that over here! 😂
Also in North America
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_(bird)
Hi Joshua, great video and plane. I just wanted to know what the fibreglass that you used with the backing on it is called? Thanks