What did you do aeroplane wise today?

[Squirrelnet]

The Beaver is looking great Richard, great job

Made up a catapult glider today a Captain Thermal from the SLEC kit.

Considering it's presumably aimed at absolute beginners it comes with very confusing instructions .. but it's a nice quick build

[Lastwoodsman]

What Did You Do Airplane Wise Today?

BEAVER DH C2   30 INCH RUBBER POWERED  FREE FLIGHT PARK FLYER   DUMAS KIT 306

Thur Feb 26 2026

Flight Report #1

     I got in a lot of good pics and a good tour of Jackson Park and the Cricket Field.   The temp was 27 deg F  sunny ,  and winds  7  mph WSW gusting to 12 mph  41% humidity.

     I got  in five test glides.    All went well,  ... sort of.    No real damage,  and I did nothing major.    I lost a right hub cap,  and the right bushwheel came off also,  on landing on the fifth glide ( with about  25  or  30  weak winds ).    No damage,  and I have a lot of hubcaps already made up.
     
     But tomorrow the temp will be  50  deg F.  and sunny.

Pic #1     1751     Blue skies and bare limbs on this finger freezing day at  11:16 AM.

Pic #2     1755     Wind on the flag at the Spitfire and Hurricane replicas in Jackson Park.

Pic #3     1765     Best pic.

Pic #4     1768     Yellow Willow in the background.

Full Flight Report to follow in my Beaver build.

Lastwoodsman
Richard

[ramses]

What did you do aeroplane wise today?

Finished my Aerographics Curtiss Jenny powered by a Gasparin GM-120 CO2 motor:





I`ve got build pictures of the Jenny at my website: https://www.delooff-aeroplanes.nl/

Cheers, Ramses

[Piecost]

Fantastic Jenny, Do I spot some sutble airbrush shading? My rubber powered version was spirally unstable. I look forward to your flight reports.

[OZPAF]

It looks great Ramses. The build log on your site was comprehensive and the site was very interesting.

John

[Squirrelnet]

As John says. That is a fantastic site Ramses


Enjoyed seeing your DHC Beaver completed too Richard, nice build

[THB]

Might not seem much to you guys who are busy pumping out great aeroplanes... but today I finally got my model desk set up after about 3 months of selling my old house and moving into a new one... with most of my stuff in storage during that time... I think the first project might be something therapeutically simple...
Tim

[dputt7]

Simple, Yeah heard that before

[TheLurker]

Simple, Yeah heard that before

Aye, we'll believe it when we see it.  My money's on THB's next one being a quarter scale Bristol Brabazon.

As well as getting the nose-plug for my Chiribiri (more or less) finished I spent some time pondering construction of my, so far hypothetical, Peanut Ryan NYP.  I daresay quite a few of the details, especially around the nose section, will change when I do get around to it, but I feel more confident of being able to build one now.

[OZPAF]

Dave, I think Tim should consider a modern challenge - a pusher Pnut scale Concorde perhaps. I hope your new location has a suitable trimming area nearby?

I admire your sketches Lurk - sign of an organised brain. Had you considrred trying to show the machine turning on the nose and spinner? No need to worry about the signatures(and dog paw marks) on the inside of the nose metal

Good luck with it.

John

[TheLurker]

...Had you considered trying to show the machine turning on the nose...

Aye, I have.  The canonical method seems to be to use a thin tinfoil covering and a pencil rubber rotated against that.  Some experimentation on some scrap fragments is called for.  If it doesn't work then flat aluminium Tamiya acrylic will have to do. Used flat Al on my "large" M-1 and it doesn't look dreadfully wrong.

[dputt7]

   John, I nave seen some of Tim's suggestions for future projects and they are as far away from the Concord as you can get!

[TheLurker]

Bit of scrabbling around the edges for the Chiribiri and some prototyping (grand word for mucking about) for the proposed Ryan NYP.

1 - Mass production of louvre sections for the cowling sides
2 - Seeing if I can get away with VMC's cream tissue as an alternative to (no longer available) SAMS antique.  Short answer is no; too translucent when doped. Will have to investigate tea-stained white tissue.  Harumph!

3,4 Machine turning for the Ryan's nose.  Kitchen tinfoil (you can't get foil fag packet liners for love nor money these days) and a disc of sandpaper on the end of a dowel. Not too bad.  The tricky steps will be to get the tinfoil to fit nicely around a curved nose section, to find a thinner foil and to find a glue that will hold the foil permanently

For reference. Aluminium tissue cannot be persuaded to look anything like machine turned Al despite all sorts of monkeying about with pencil rubbers or sandpaper of various degrees of coarseness.

[dputt7]

Hi Lurks, the engine turned cowling looks a treat.
   
 Not  long ago I needed an engine turned instrument panel so I Googled engine turned panels and found a suitable one so I printed it onto Decal paper and it worked a treat.

[SP250]

Lurk, I've used canopy glue to stick foil to balsa before.  Also cover grip works as well as once dry it remains tacky so you can position the ali foil then with a cotton sock over the film covering iron heat seal the foil to the balsa.  The iron helps going round curves too, but not sure if you'll get foil to work on double curvatures.

John M