Scraps

15 January 2024

Use the most available material to make a small rubber powered plane that I can fly in my living room or in the hall at KBCC.

"Scraps" from Outerzone. It's 8" wing span and 8"x3/16"x1/16" stick fuselage. Mostly 1/16" sq strips and curved ribs from 1/16" sheet. Blades are 1/32" sheet.

Could make a few from a single piece of 1/16" thick sheet, 8" length, but maybe cut from 12"x3"x1/16" sheet, remainder can be used for bigger models, maybe variations of Scraps or even a peanut?

Blades can be from card. Whether balsa or card, can make curl the blades over a cylinder.

Instead of prop hanger from paper clip, can use plastic tube (space with card or 1/16" sheet glued to side of fuselage stick.

Struts from 1/8" x 1/16" strip, but why not from 1/16" sq?

Instead of thin paper tabs can use gurney flaps?

Use ice cream stick to align leading and trailing edges.  

Scraps

An 8" "parlour" flyer by Alan Winterton

Wing 8"x2", ribs 7x1.87"                2

Tail 4"x1.72", ribs 4x1.56"               2

Fuselage 8"x3/16"x1/16"                3

Blade 2.36"x0.77"

Fin: 1.95", 0.94", 1.78"                 

Struts 1.28", 1.13"

Hub 0.64"x1/8"x1/8", 0.22" slots

Span 8"x (equal span)

Make 3

8" long 3" wide 1/16"

Fuselage 3, Spars 2, TSpars 1, 

 1/16"x8" strips

3 pairs of blade: 2.5" long 1" wide 1/32"