IGRA Jodel Bebe

[Pete Fardell]

This will, hopefully, be my Kit Scale entry this at the Indoor Nats. It's a Jodel Bebe from the Czech IGRA kit: 24 inch span. I plan to do it in the same starry scheme as Jiří Doležel's recent Pistachio version. And thanks to Jiří I now have two photos of F-PEVE instead of just this rather blurry one I found online.
The question is though, can I "do a Banham" and build it in two weeks? This would mean I could try and trim it at the pre-Nats Bushfield meeting on 29th March.

[Pete Fardell]

Now covered and starrified. Still a bit to do, but I still hope to test it at Bushfield on Sunday. (I was sooooo tempted to swap the V for a T on that reg! )

[Squirrelnet]

Really nice Pete. The stars look great, I would not have thought of painting the tissue before fitting them  ( which I've just realised you only said in your Facebook post 😂)

[Pete Fardell]

Really nice Pete. The stars look great, I would not have thought of painting the tissue before fitting them  ( which I've just realised you only said in your Facebook post 😂)

Thanks, Chris. Yes, stars cut from yellow tissue pre-sprayed both sides with yellow acrylic to make them opaque.

[g_kandylakis]

"Sweet dreams"...

Nice one, Pete!

As for the registration, you should have done it, perfectly legitimate...

George

[OZPAF]

Eye catching scheme Pete. That was quick!

John

[Anyun]

Twinkle, twinkle little star, this Jodel-build has come far
Up above the earth you'll fly, starry diamond in the sky
Twinkle, I must say at last, Pete does surely build quite fast

Nice model and best of luck with the trimming! /Andrea

[Pete Fardell]

Thanks for the nice comments. 
Here are a couple of pics now that the noseblock's been painted and the dummy engine finished and affixed. And here's a rather distant video of the last of its test flights at Bushfield last Sunday; this after a LOT of assistance and advice (and catching!) from one R. Crossley. Getting it to turn without dropping a wing was the tricky part, but I think it's nearly there.
Trim tabs, tip weight and a long motor wound up a lot.
I should have started further over. Richard caught fur me several times that day which meant it came home undamaged.

[OZPAF]

Fair bit of potential there Pete. R. Crossley would make a good cricket fieldsman 

Good luck with it.

John

[Lastwoodsman]

Jodel Bebe by Pete Fardell   yellow stars on blue plane

Hi Pete.                             Wed April 8 2026

Very eye catching color scheme there Pete.   I see a big sun in there too.

Scintillate scintillate,  globule orific.
Fain would I fathom thy nature specific.
Loftily poised in ether capacious, 
Strongly resembling a gem carbonaceous.

Lastwoodsman
Richard