File:C-Oh-Two climbing like a homesick angel! (5125755858).jpg
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I look at this photo and I'm amazed- was it really going up that steeply? Maybe this was the first flight, before it had enough down-thrust. Jerry Hodson gave me this kit and it was by far the best stick and tissue plane I'd built up to that point- I used buyterate fuel-proof-dope instead of the more appropriate nitrate (C02 gas was the 'fuel' in this case). I put dope all over the sticks, I used heavy silkspan on the wing (why?) Blah blah blah. At least I could move the CO2 tank around to balance it -no ballast! If the structure had been actually square I might not have needed the little trim tabs of masking tape that you can see on the wing tip and tail surfaces. Oh well! It was flying, very well, and it made me want to do better. I'd argue that my Peck Polymers Mitsubishi Zero was even better- a rubber powered "scale" free flier that would rise above the level it was released from. On rubber band power! That made me very happy. Still too much butyrate dope! I need more pictures and to build more models... One of the cool things about this photo is that the focal-plane shutter of my SLR camera was zipping along over the film while the prop was spinning... with the result that the prop appears to be bent, since it rotated during the time the slit of the shutter sped across the film. You see this effect with the old Speed Graphic press cameras from the 1930s and before- all those early racing cars that appear to be leaning forward or back... the Speed Graphic's focal plane shutter operated vertically. Fuselage is natural balsa wood, paper and dope, the wing is the same but with a list mist of Corsair Dark Blue on the top. Looks pretty sharp- natural + dark blue-gray. Yellow prop doesn't hurt. hr_C02_climb |
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| Source | C-Oh-Two climbing like a homesick angel! |
| Author | Bill Abbott |
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