Hum......... I didn't realize that the Shrimpo has a fuselage like the Diamond Demond! I really like the look of the Diamonds and The Shrimpos fuselage!!!! CDN
I built the tiny FF version of this called Azbug with a Dave Banks 0.25cc Mills, flew great. Met it's end stuck up a tree, local, kids helped to recover it by using catapults, airframe wrecked but got the motor back
Engine burbling, model bumbling happily about... Lovely. It's such a relaxing way to fly. On a design note: I like that fuselage. A few years ago I got into building all-wooden DLGs (ran out of money to make the usual carbon-composite variety), and I found that a fuselage with a triangular cross-section offered a good compromise between weight, strength and stiffness. When the UK's ridiculous drone-laws, annual fee, registration requirements and weight limits came into force, I slimmed down the designs to sub-250g (I refuse to register and pay an unfair tax!) and flew the models as catapult-launch gliders. Wingspan was 5'. Coupled with a variable camber polyhedral wing and a V-tail, they turned out to be quite good fliers. So, yay for Toblerone fuselages!😁
Yet again another classic. If memory serves me right (and it doesn't these days) there is a smaller version of this model, I think round about the 50in size.
Hum......... I didn't realize that the Shrimpo has a fuselage like the Diamond Demond! I really like the look of the Diamonds and The Shrimpos fuselage!!!! CDN
I built the tiny FF version of this called Azbug with a Dave Banks 0.25cc Mills, flew great. Met it's end stuck up a tree, local, kids helped to recover it by using catapults, airframe wrecked but got the motor back
Engine burbling, model bumbling happily about... Lovely. It's such a relaxing way to fly.
On a design note: I like that fuselage. A few years ago I got into building all-wooden DLGs (ran out of money to make the usual carbon-composite variety), and I found that a fuselage with a triangular cross-section offered a good compromise between weight, strength and stiffness.
When the UK's ridiculous drone-laws, annual fee, registration requirements and weight limits came into force, I slimmed down the designs to sub-250g (I refuse to register and pay an unfair tax!) and flew the models as catapult-launch gliders. Wingspan was 5'. Coupled with a variable camber polyhedral wing and a V-tail, they turned out to be quite good fliers.
So, yay for Toblerone fuselages!😁
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these models only need 3 channel radio, look how that bird maneuvers , that's what I call nice relaxing flying,
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Yet again another classic. If memory serves me right (and it doesn't these days) there is a smaller version of this model, I think round about the 50in size.
Thank you Terry, yes the original design was much smaller.
Spettacolare, ciò che volava negli anni 40 può fare divertire anche oggi se il pilota è un tizio con la pazienza.
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spectacular!
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Pete Russell built this design and later developed it into the famous Stol Mk 1
Vacuum tube radio gear and rubber band powered servos?