Brings back memories of making Guillow's Balsa kits out of Wakefield, Mass.. I stuck with rubber band power but had some very long endurance flights with my Arrow, Javelin and Fairchild models,. Wish I still had a few of the dozen I made in the 60s and early 70s.
Safer to use 4 bands on the wing. 2 front to back and then 2 crisscrossed, if one breaks you won’t lose the wing. Nice build. I started building models since 1950, RC since 1970 , rubber power before that. I’m still building. Love it.
I found out the hard way that when I "crisscrossed" the rubber bands. When the model I was flying with crisscrossed bands I did a cartwheel wing tip to wing tip it kept all the bands on ok but did not release because of the "Crisscrossed bands" and quickly destroyed the wing. I will never use this idea again. No one at my flying field never uses that method nor will I. Do it at your own risk!
Aside from your demonstrable skills, I really appreciate your clever use of jigs to ensure correct angles, evenness, and especially design continuity...in short....construction integrity. Thank you for sharing.
That's a cool idea to make such long videos for a beginner plane. It's rare. The video include a impressive case of error you could avoid by seeing it again and again, and think to check the hand and eye of builder, he does not do mouvement freely, he built with care. I do a few other way but globally it's a sane and good method So if I would like on such long vids to find subtitles for the risky moments and made light on them, I found the whole result very good and a must have seen for all who want to begin for fisrt time a new plane from box and wood sheet. Keep an eye on it! Already do? Why did you wait ?? Do it again 😁👍 My 2 cents: (in same bad English than previously) I would say to beginner to choose a simpliest wood glue, slow and easy to use. They could replace adjust and take a longer time to built with error possible where Uhu Hart and Cyano can't. Also cyano is a big big loss of lifeage for the plane. Ok 1st plane could be crashed. But if not, don't hope to keep it flying for decade if built on Cyano. Where wood glue could stay good for decades. A beginner is not fast and use this advantage choosing slow glue is a must to do. 30min wood glue or 2h are perfect, exterior glue is not necessary as your plane will be wrapped and don't suffer from humidity on fly, and you will store it safely too no?)😇 As glue is an heavy subject in building, Cyano is light,wood glue medium light, Uhu Hart mid, epoxy heavy. The strongest is not the best, and not dependant of weight. Use the less glue as possible, take time to swipe the excess after joined parts. Immobilize them together or press it for good flat or square gluing, and keep in mind "light is right"(C.Chapman) so epoxy is heavy glue, don't use too much but use it where its absolutely need, mix it as long as possible (1mn for a quart nut is good, and don't charge too much for avoiding drop, you also could do better gluing when don't need to glue 2 flat pieces, like in angle or for reinforcement, by using wood residus of cut and shape, and mix it with Epoxy, glue became thicker, cure faster, and is much stronger while being lighter due to less glue needed for same spot. On experiment level pilot , the plane could be glue same with microballon of glass, ultra light ultrastrong and relatively cheap👍 Also take time to bought the calque paper for preserving plan, and fixe the plan of a solid and flat, very perfect flat workbench. The better support you fixe the plan, the better the plane will flight. Take time to read it, identify parts in the wood stock, and mind twice before cut anything!!!! Also every cut must be done Ith a new cutter blade, of a new scalpel, balsa is easy to cut but not easy to good cut. Mind also the glue is not all, if you don't have a good joint between two pieces of wood, it's a bad job. Try where you can( without shorten a part that affect the geometry of plane) to cut at right angle to match the destination element, before glu it, adjust your part and see it in place blank. Shape it a bit if needed, eonit on rigid flat support with sand paper double tape on flat, to do it perfectly, use high grain like 500 or 600 , at least 320, to not remove too much baosa when you do adjustment. Bigger paper is only necessary when forming a big bloc but not when the need is a quart of millimeter A good scalpel does not need any sanding after such the cut is perfect At 14:20 you have illustration The angle is just a reinforcement, so it's not a fatal error bit the adjustment is exactly those you want to avoid. See him present the part before gluing. Good method but you see the space on upper side between parts and stabilisator angle, it's horrible. You need to cut half millimeter on power side to reach the side correctly. When both parts joined visually correctly, even if a paper could pass through by few spot, you can glue it The glue could handle the little error. But if you glue it like him in this precise example at 14:33 you ask the glue to reach too much space and it can't. You finally glue on less than half of depth and it could be critical if it concern structural joining. The future pleasure pass with that few attention. Not a big deal for the amount of fun you have when see your job take off for first time. You change a massive tree to a light plane than could take off from ground on its own !!! Totally magic sensation trust me !!! Even after years and years, you always feel this strange magical feeling on every first take off from a personnal built! Yep it's heavier than air, and it's flying and you pilot it ! Woooow 🥰☁️☁️👍 Hope these 2cents help. I still built plane from scratch with conventional method, even draw them from blank page, and love it after 40years of building alone. Cheers from France 🇲🇫
Aaaah, good ol' balsa wood planes, much better than them foam 1's that's for sure lol use to build these when I was a kid back in the 80's with my dad, so much fun too
Ok, that was fantastic! Now I'd like to see you build my dream model of a gee bee r1. This big fat ugly one that people say they hate to fly! I wish the great planes one was still around with the new technology of safe flight.
I thought my spotify was playing in the background haha. nice to have some chill music in someone's vid finally. was very pleasant to watch listen to. nice model to
Wow, forming the landing gear yourself...this is next level craftsman work. This is balsa building in its purest form. The glue pack that was made...genius 😎 Many building hours
My dad used to build like this when I was a kid..but the planes would have a gas engine, and be attached to wires so they would fly in a circle held by two handles for steering…he used to let us kids hold the wings while he wound the propellers. Sometimes, we had turns flying them…
Love it! Someone actually building planes like we used to. ARF's are great but try fixing one when you crash it. I guess I'm an old fart now talking about "Back in my day ..."
It’s nice to see ya build a balsa but what glue your using? Have you ever tried CA instant bond. It is sandable and if ya need a little filler just but some baking soda in the crack and hit it with some thin CA and it turns into very lite concrete! Jus tryin to help.
First one ya ever built? Can I suggest thin set CA for your glue. Set the part in place then use a drop to keep it there. If you need more substance at a joint sprinkle some baking soda on the joint then another drop of ca and ya will have a very solid joint quickly. I been building for 40 years. A tip from me to you👍🏻
Show!! Your artwork is very interesting. I am passionate about aviation and enjoy everything. Aeromodelling, aerial presentations, videos of airplane piloting and everything that flies. What country are you? I am from Brazil. Congratulations!! One more subscriber.
I would always use PVA and bond small scrap gussets to hold the parts in place for a good solid bond that will last a lifetime. Having said that I’m unfamiliar with the particular “type” of UHU glue you’re using (hart) so I can’t comment on that. Great build btw, looks nice and solid. 👍😁
That is extremely good work it's called talent if i were to do something like this i would mess it up pretty bad, 🤣 this is a extremely cool looking art, bro that is something that should be in a museum it blows my mind that how small and how many hours it takes to build with micro components,
Supper glue works great on balsa..makes joints a lot stronger then epoxy..but real hard to cut apart if it breaks and you want to repair..i built glider with only supper glue...letting student fly it they put it into dive and had electric engine on full then at full throttle dive they did inverted loop..should of snapped wings like dry blades of grass.you could hear wings vibrating from the overspend but the supper glue soaked into area around joint making it twice as strong..
Hey could you try do a video about, instead of getting laser cut balsa plan pieces to build a plane, why not use those plans and 3D print the parts(ribs)? I know this has been talked about before and weight has been pointed out to be an issue but what about using Lightweight PLA, like others are using to print the plane itself not just the ribs. Just an idea let me know what you think. Thanks!
PLA is nowhere near as light or stiff as balsa. There is a reason that balsa is sandwiched between carbon fiber in race cars. It is a pretty incredible building material. Also, 3d printed ribs would be way more expensive (because of time) to produce. I doubt PLA would glue up well to the spars like balsa does either.
LOVE that trick of using a ziplock bag to mix the epoxy
Thanks!
Brings back memories of making Guillow's Balsa kits out of Wakefield, Mass.. I stuck with rubber band power but had some very long endurance flights with my Arrow, Javelin and Fairchild models,. Wish I still had a few of the dozen I made in the 60s and early 70s.
In todays woke craziness I bet you can't even show a picture of the "Das Sloopen Thing"
It actually flew pretty good though.
I built the Arrow and Javelin with my father. They flew beautiful. Great kits.
I've never seen a small ziplock bag used for mixing and dispensing epoxy, a pretty cool idea.
Safer to use 4 bands on the wing. 2 front to back and then 2 crisscrossed, if one breaks you won’t lose the wing. Nice build. I started building models since 1950, RC since 1970 , rubber power before that. I’m still building. Love it.
When I see the build it really feels like old school style builds. I don't planes that way anymore today.
I found out the hard way that when I "crisscrossed" the rubber bands. When the model I was flying with crisscrossed bands I did a cartwheel wing tip to wing tip it kept all the bands on ok but did not release because of the "Crisscrossed bands" and quickly destroyed the wing. I will never use this idea again. No one at my flying field never uses that method nor will I. Do it at your own risk!
The maiden flight is always the best.Very satisfying! You know you did the perfect build.Great job. I miss my plane building.
Good Job! I used to build gliders and Rubber Band driven planes when I was a Kid. I'd like to make one again after watching this video
I buillt planes from scratch aged 10 cheap as chips at that time Balsa kits came in sheets and strips with plans. i'm 87 now and still like to watch.
It's a very satisfying feeling, isn't it?
Building & flying your own model.
Good job. Thanks for sharing 👍
bulding such models in my youth, without superglue and accelerator, teached me a whole lot about my temper;)))
Aside from your demonstrable skills, I really appreciate your clever use of jigs to ensure correct angles, evenness, and especially design continuity...in short....construction integrity. Thank you for sharing.
You have the patience of a saint. I would have given up about a quarter of the way through..
Excellent takes me back to my childhood thanks
nice work. i used to build and fly rc.a great hobby.
That's a cool idea to make such long videos for a beginner plane. It's rare. The video include a impressive case of error you could avoid by seeing it again and again, and think to check the hand and eye of builder, he does not do mouvement freely, he built with care. I do a few other way but globally it's a sane and good method
So if I would like on such long vids to find subtitles for the risky moments and made light on them, I found the whole result very good and a must have seen for all who want to begin for fisrt time a new plane from box and wood sheet. Keep an eye on it! Already do? Why did you wait ?? Do it again 😁👍
My 2 cents: (in same bad English than previously)
I would say to beginner to choose a simpliest wood glue, slow and easy to use. They could replace adjust and take a longer time to built with error possible where Uhu Hart and Cyano can't.
Also cyano is a big big loss of lifeage for the plane. Ok 1st plane could be crashed. But if not, don't hope to keep it flying for decade if built on Cyano. Where wood glue could stay good for decades.
A beginner is not fast and use this advantage choosing slow glue is a must to do. 30min wood glue or 2h are perfect, exterior glue is not necessary as your plane will be wrapped and don't suffer from humidity on fly, and you will store it safely too no?)😇
As glue is an heavy subject in building, Cyano is light,wood glue medium light, Uhu Hart mid, epoxy heavy. The strongest is not the best, and not dependant of weight.
Use the less glue as possible, take time to swipe the excess after joined parts. Immobilize them together or press it for good flat or square gluing, and keep in mind "light is right"(C.Chapman) so epoxy is heavy glue, don't use too much but use it where its absolutely need, mix it as long as possible (1mn for a quart nut is good, and don't charge too much for avoiding drop, you also could do better gluing when don't need to glue 2 flat pieces, like in angle or for reinforcement, by using wood residus of cut and shape, and mix it with Epoxy, glue became thicker, cure faster, and is much stronger while being lighter due to less glue needed for same spot. On experiment level pilot , the plane could be glue same with microballon of glass, ultra light ultrastrong and relatively cheap👍
Also take time to bought the calque paper for preserving plan, and fixe the plan of a solid and flat, very perfect flat workbench. The better support you fixe the plan, the better the plane will flight.
Take time to read it, identify parts in the wood stock, and mind twice before cut anything!!!!
Also every cut must be done Ith a new cutter blade, of a new scalpel, balsa is easy to cut but not easy to good cut.
Mind also the glue is not all, if you don't have a good joint between two pieces of wood, it's a bad job.
Try where you can( without shorten a part that affect the geometry of plane) to cut at right angle to match the destination element, before glu it, adjust your part and see it in place blank. Shape it a bit if needed, eonit on rigid flat support with sand paper double tape on flat, to do it perfectly, use high grain like 500 or 600 , at least 320, to not remove too much baosa when you do adjustment.
Bigger paper is only necessary when forming a big bloc but not when the need is a quart of millimeter
A good scalpel does not need any sanding after such the cut is perfect
At 14:20 you have illustration
The angle is just a reinforcement, so it's not a fatal error bit the adjustment is exactly those you want to avoid.
See him present the part before gluing. Good method but you see the space on upper side between parts and stabilisator angle, it's horrible. You need to cut half millimeter on power side to reach the side correctly. When both parts joined visually correctly, even if a paper could pass through by few spot, you can glue it
The glue could handle the little error.
But if you glue it like him in this precise example at 14:33 you ask the glue to reach too much space and it can't. You finally glue on less than half of depth and it could be critical if it concern structural joining.
The future pleasure pass with that few attention. Not a big deal for the amount of fun you have when see your job take off for first time.
You change a massive tree to a light plane than could take off from ground on its own !!! Totally magic sensation trust me !!! Even after years and years, you always feel this strange magical feeling on every first take off from a personnal built!
Yep it's heavier than air, and it's flying and you pilot it ! Woooow 🥰☁️☁️👍
Hope these 2cents help. I still built plane from scratch with conventional method, even draw them from blank page, and love it after 40years of building alone.
Cheers from France 🇲🇫
Wowow cheers!!! from Philippines🇸🇽
Aaaah, good ol' balsa wood planes, much better than them foam 1's that's for sure lol use to build these when I was a kid back in the 80's with my dad, so much fun too
Ok, that was fantastic! Now I'd like to see you build my dream model of a gee bee r1. This big fat ugly one that people say they hate to fly! I wish the great planes one was still around with the new technology of safe flight.
I thought my spotify was playing in the background haha. nice to have some chill music in someone's vid finally. was very pleasant to watch listen to. nice model to
I loved building RC planes. Was half the fun.
Goldberg made the best kits before the company was sold.
I could watch an entire channel dedicated to this all day.
Seria um ótimo presente... Parabéns
I loved building from a box of wood like you did. I only used CA glue to keep weight down. You need a very flat and straight table.
Beautiful build and results ! ❤😉🙃😎 NZ
Точно как было раньше, и так же собирали. Ностальгия.👍💯💯💯🇷🇺
Только тут нервюры робот вырезал....
Excellent builder
Oh how this opening the box flooded back into my memory. And that’s the type of construction I know. Not these ready to fly kits.
Very nice to watch this build. Good job.
Glad you enjoyed it
발사 비행기 진짜 오랫만... 나 어릴 때는 다 저렇게 만들었는데 요즘은 중국산 완성키트 때문에 접근성 좋아진듯.
That's one of the finest builds I have seen. Great job mann
Thanks! Is not perfect but it was nice, other people might implement better techniques than mine.
Wow, forming the landing gear yourself...this is next level craftsman work. This is balsa building in its purest form. The glue pack that was made...genius 😎 Many building hours
I never wanted to build a wood kit until I saw this video. I can't wait to finish it and bounce one off with it.
@@azalea_moon-kee Awesome, enjoy your build and hope it comes off well
Good old days
Balsa kits
Hello. Very good movie quality and training
My dad used to build like this when I was a kid..but the planes would have a gas engine, and be attached to wires so they would fly in a circle held by two handles for steering…he used to let us kids hold the wings while he wound the propellers. Sometimes, we had turns flying them…
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Great job on your build, but what is in the little mist bottle that you spray on each section you complete?
Love it! Someone actually building planes like we used to. ARF's are great but try fixing one when you crash it. I guess I'm an old fart now talking about "Back in my day ..."
Please don´t get me wrong, but the level how much glue you use is insane... :D
I would also comment that I was taught that the grain should be along the diagonal edge on gussets. See tailplane corners. Stabiliser in the US...
Great build!!!!
Great video loved how it was built
Such a great plane and build video!
I wish I had that small iron back in the 80's.
Всё "новое", это хорошо забытое "старое"!!!
Thanks. I remember the days.
It’s nice to see ya build a balsa but what glue your using? Have you ever tried CA instant bond. It is sandable and if ya need a little filler just but some baking soda in the crack and hit it with some thin CA and it turns into very lite concrete! Jus tryin to help.
thank you, beautiful
This looks great. It would be nice if we could purchase a kit having a fuselage plus both wings, to allow for skill development.
Look up arf models at tower hobbies
First one ya ever built?
Can I suggest thin set CA for your glue. Set the part in place then use a drop to keep it there. If you need more substance at a joint sprinkle some baking soda on the joint then another drop of ca and ya will have a very solid joint quickly. I been building for 40 years. A tip from me to you👍🏻
There's nothing like the smell of balsa.
Most of rc plane building videos have impressed me,so has your video😇🤩🙂
Best wishes 🙋♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️
VOÇE TEM PARA VENDER ESSES AEROMODELOS INCRÍVEIS!!!!!!!!😆😆😆🎵⚱😃😃
GREAT WORK
Merci pour la vidéo 🙂👍
What a great video. Wonderful edit job. Will look for your other posts!
This is magic to watch, nice music too 👏👌👍
Thank you! Cheers!
Show!!
Your artwork is very interesting.
I am passionate about aviation and enjoy everything. Aeromodelling, aerial presentations, videos of airplane piloting and everything that flies. What country are you? I am from Brazil.
Congratulations!! One more subscriber.
A most excellent adventure .
I need Whiskey, a MicroGantry DREMEL CNC , and mayhap the 3DPrinter .
and Beer .
And it's now 16:20 .
thank you for this beautiful video
Thank you too for commenting.
I would always use PVA and bond small scrap gussets to hold the parts in place for a good solid bond that will last a lifetime. Having said that I’m unfamiliar with the particular “type” of UHU glue you’re using (hart) so I can’t comment on that. Great build btw, looks nice and solid. 👍😁
Wir haben damals nur mit Uhu hart gebaut
Sometimes a lifetime to an RC aircraft is meager few moments.
Uhu hart is also perfect for ABS parts like engine covers or boat hulls.
really neat job
This is built like Carl Goldberg gentle lady
thanks i will check it out!
I tried to build one plane, fuselage came out twisted, i gave up
Nice build.
That is extremely good work it's called talent if i were to do something like this i would mess it up pretty bad, 🤣 this is a extremely cool looking art, bro that is something that should be in a museum it blows my mind that how small and how many hours it takes to build with micro components,
No set square for main bulkheads? Also you need datum line to make sure fuselage is straight.
Bro you are awesome
What a great beauty... 😘😘
so close to 69k subs
Looks unbelievably familiar
Superb!!
Great work and plane!
Thanks a lot!
You can find solarfilm still??
where can I get the blue-prints? I would like to start getting into it!
Was there a big difference between the wings?
Supper glue works great on balsa..makes joints a lot stronger then epoxy..but real hard to cut apart if it breaks and you want to repair..i built glider with only supper glue...letting student fly it they put it into dive and had electric engine on full then at full throttle dive they did inverted loop..should of snapped wings like dry blades of grass.you could hear wings vibrating from the overspend but the supper glue soaked into area around joint making it twice as strong..
I will buy this kit. Is there anyone who can send me a link to the parts that aren't in the kit?
Splendid! Thank you for your precious video, i want to ask you - where have you bought oracover ?
brushless kv?
god job
I remember the days using white glue and pins when cyanoacrylate glue was not available yet.
Nice!
sempurna,mantap om
Simplesmente Incrível!
Very good nice
How long did this take you?
Will you restock your website store anytime soon ?
Looks like the grass won't cutting good build
I'm from Indonesia I have a lot of balsa wood
Please tell me you didn't glue balsa wood with UHU glue?
Typical glue was ambroid ..look reddish orange when dry...now a days use C-A
Super glue looks like clear liquid dries instantly...
Hey could you try do a video about, instead of getting laser cut balsa plan pieces to build a plane, why not use those plans and 3D print the parts(ribs)? I know this has been talked about before and weight has been pointed out to be an issue but what about using Lightweight PLA, like others are using to print the plane itself not just the ribs. Just an idea let me know what you think. Thanks!
I've thought about it some time ago but haven't put it in practice.
PLA is nowhere near as light or stiff as balsa.
There is a reason that balsa is sandwiched between carbon fiber in race cars. It is a pretty incredible building material.
Also, 3d printed ribs would be way more expensive (because of time) to produce.
I doubt PLA would glue up well to the spars like balsa does either.
Bel video bella costruzione. Dove vendono questo kit in quale negozio
Materials used for skin?
Do you have tutorial on making 50 to 60 cm wingspan of a glider that is made in balsa wood?
What no CA with exelerator?
The only thing ugly is the union of the metals in the landing gear, you could have soldered them with tin
Me pasa que cuando estoy pasando la plancha el material se contrae y me dobla el balso 😢
Uhu Hart? Yes? What about the big vessel?
When you like building icebreakers but really want an airplane!
I just bought my first balsa plane kit
is thick cyanoacrylate (thick super glue) and accelerator suitable to use?
I buillt planes from scratch aged 10 cheap as chips at that time Balsa kits came in sheets and strips with plans. i'm 87 now and still like to watch.
NICE !!!