1960s Coupe d’hiver postal comp

[THB]

Thanks Dave - and made some good progress now on wing - more complicated than I anticipated - mainly as I'm not used to packing up trailing edges and putting in spars without cracking the 1mm ribs. I pre-shaped the TE but will shape the LE once all the spars and gussets are in.

[dputt7]

   While Tim's building his new Coupe I have decided on an Eco- friendly rebuild of a damaged model. My Drobek has already spent a week in a large tree in the Adelaide Park Lands before it was blown down to a retrievable height. It was repaired and flew again. Then while sitting in an open box with my Deuzio, a drawer with a few tools in it managed to fall into the box causing quite a lot of damage completely destroying the Deuzio fuse.
    The main damage to the Drobek was breaking one of the wing panels in half and many large holes in the covering.  Photo 1 shows some of the damage done to the wing.  I have managed to repair the damage and recovered most of the model.  I can't understand what happened to the Black tissue tips as I just gave them a light coat of dope and they came out very shiny, I may recver them yet.

[dputt7]

  Photo 1 shows the repaired prop assembly.
I decided I would try some metallic sticker for the name this time. Photo 2 I wasn't happy with it and it would not sit down at the thin parts of the letters so I reverted to my original tissue letters Photo 3

[THB]

The recycled Drobek looks great Dave. Remember very well the anxious couple of weeks wait for the Drobek to drop from the tree - noting the tree was basically in the middle of our city! I also have made some progress with my 'Coffee Coupe' and hope to get myself to flying readiness in the next few weeks.
cheers
Tim

[Mike Thomas]

That looks like a lot of progress, Tim ; you havent been hangin' about. Mike.

[dputt7]

  Nice work Tim, how are you dealing with the size of it

[lincoln]

I was going to post a jpg plan for the Ailbass, but the maximum file size seems to be a moving target. First it said the limit was around 1k, so I shrunk the drawing to something like 700k, where it was beginning to blur slightly. Now it says 256k is the max. I also tried a pdf, but that didn't work either. Sigh. Maybe I can post a picture of it from an Aeromodeler cover.

I have a bunch of old CdH plans from here and there. If you're looking for something in particular, just ask. I don't think I have the Hat Band, which someone was looking for.

[PeeTee]

I remember Dave (dputt7) building an Ailbass on the old HPA site but can't recall what it flew like.

Peter

[dputt7]

Hi Peter, I built the Alibass as a sport model and covered it with  PolySpan so it was a bit overweight But it flew fine with a 15grm motor.  It was a 1950's design but when the Postal Comp arrived it was allowed as it had been published in the 60's. I am just recovering a wing from it that became stained so I may fly it in the Postal again.

[lincoln]

There is a sort of plan for the Ailbass here: https://hpa.aeromodelling.gr/plans/details.php?image_id=1759&mode=search
And a more detailed one here:
https://outerzone.co.uk/plan_details.asp?ID=8240

I'm guessing that someone here knows how to shrink image files to 256k without making them too blurry.

[PeeTee]

Hello Dave

The news about the re-covered wing  is great, I hope that it flies well !

Peter

[THB]

Dave's Alibass is a nice looking machine - not just a box girder with a square wing. Meanwhile I'm making progress with my own box girder with a square wing    No pix worth posting. I have a nose block and a block of 1/2in balsa that needs to be turned into a prop blade. Shavings and balsa dust everywhere...

[dputt7]

That's nice steady progress, is it a single blade prop?

[PeeTee]

The front page of the Aeromodeller posted by Lincoln a few posts ago brought back fond memories. One of the chaps is Peter Michel who organises a monthly get together (Bangers & Mash) near to Epsom racecourse. He in holding an Ailbass but the thing that interested me was the Coupe d'Hiver contest held every year, latterly at Viabon. Alas a recent email from  J-P Challine of the PAM club suggests that it won't continue because old age is getting to us ! It's a pity because the nice Channel crossing plus driving to Chartres with French wine and food made late February/early March something to look forward to !

Peter

[dputt7]

'Old age is getting to us".  Sad but true. You never know some "youngster" in their 50's or 60's might revive it.