5/5/2011 Flying at Plum Brook

Today's photos from an informal gathering of the Huriotts at their Plum Brook flying field in Sandusky, OH.

Northeast Sailplane Floh

$#@&%! NASA has my name backwards

Quick Oats 6 Finishing Touches

The Quick Oats now sports its "engine" complete with high tension lead.

Here's another Quick Oats over at the R/C Groups thread

Quick Oats 5

Finished and flown.  Hit a tree, no damage.  Waiting on black spray paint for dummy motor.

Quick Oats 4

Hi Tom,

Had a busy day finding out how to use Aero Film. It comes in a plastic bag folded up into a small rectangle. It measures 11 inches by 27 1/4 inches with a plastic film backing. My learning experiences are as follows:

Use a very sharp blade for cutting and trimming the material. I started with a new # 11 X-Acto blade. It sometimes ripped or tore the film. Switched to a über knife and things became a whole lot easier.

Use the low setting on the Top Flight trim iron for ironing the film around open structures like the wing, stab and rudder.
Set your iron for 250 degrees F for taking out the wrinkles.
Set you iron for 280 degrees F for taking out very bad wrinkles.
I use my 40 year old Coverite thermometer for checking the settings shown in the photos for the Coverite iron.

Removing the film backing required making a 45 degree slit at a corner and carefully peeling the film back. A lot of patience is required to remove the film backing.

Aero film is very light and sometimes folds back on itself. Then a lot more patience is required to peel it back off of itself.

The Aero Film blends in very well when lapping it at a joint. Almost impossible to see the seam.

Trimming with Aero Film: use the trim iron on the trim material you are attaching. Using the Coverite iron covers too much area. I preferred to use the Top Flight trim iron.

Waiting for the motor, wheels and radio equipment to arrive to complete the project.

Bucky Walter

Quick Oats 3

Hi Tom,

The assembly of the fuselage was unbelievable. It was very well engineered. As I started to assemble the fuselage, per the manual, I thought this is going to turn into one big crooked mess due to all the slots and tabs that had to be lined up. To my surprise every tab and slot clicked together. Talk about a very well engineer assemble design; just fantastic! The plywood motor mount had to be sanded a little in order to slide the two pieces together. A step in the manual called to check the fuselage to see if it was square; it was right on dead square.

When I thought I was going to have a problem a little patience really paid off. Do not rush the assembly of the fuselage.

To sum up, not only was it a very well engineered; it was a work of art.

Bucky