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  1. RCBinChicken

    What are you doing in addition to flying?

    [edit: I read back over my own comment and yeah I don't feel like this was the appropriate place for it. Sorry all. As you were!]
  2. RCBinChicken

    What aviation news, blogs or e-mail newsletters do you actively read?

    Nothing that (1) I could claim to be a regular reader of and (2) updates frequently. Full-scale aviation will remain a distant pipe dream for me until I've completed my studies and got a (hopefully reasonably paid) technical job, and while reading about it in the meantime would probably be good...
  3. RCBinChicken

    First attempt at design for electric delta pusher

    Your model does look gorgeous! I've built RC aircraft of a similar config and they flew well, although what is desirable in RC doesn't always translate to 1:1 scale so I can't comment on stability etc. :p I'm guessing by the smooth curves that this would be a composites bird? I wish... the...
  4. RCBinChicken

    First attempt at design for electric delta pusher

    Thanks for that link - I had no particular knowledge of "powered hang gliders" as a category, and this is giving me lots more feasibility data points! I like the Mosquito's simple design. That ballpark estimate of flight time is also on the "encouragingly hopeful" side, though 100lbs is approx...
  5. RCBinChicken

    Interesting Electric Pipistrel

    Is that a subtle hint? :P
  6. RCBinChicken

    Interesting Electric Pipistrel

    WOW! Gorgeous! I looked up the MTOW for the Alpha (could only find the petrol version's data but one would hope they're pretty similar) and it gave a figure of 550kg. I'll assume ~500kg or less for this flight, as neither occupant looked that heavily built - but hauling half a tonne around at...
  7. RCBinChicken

    First attempt at design for electric delta pusher

    Aaaaannnd having just seen in another thread that the Facetmobile's designer is a member of this forum, I really hope my own references to it are not embarrassingly factually incorrect. My sincere apologies to Mr. Wainfan should this prove to be the case! :eek:
  8. RCBinChicken

    First attempt at design for electric delta pusher

    Apologies to all for lack of replies to input, I'm an engineering student and the end-of-term assignments and exams have swallowed up all time for the last few weeks... Now it's quietened down a little, I can finally go through and respond properly to everyone! Thanks to all of you for chipping...
  9. RCBinChicken

    First attempt at design for electric delta pusher

    Oo-er. I'll have a look into that one. I'd wanted the landing gear to be pretty short to begin with, but now I'm even keener. :(
  10. RCBinChicken

    First attempt at design for electric delta pusher

    Hi all, after lots of lurking and reading threads pertaining to similar(ish) craft, I figured it was time to work up the nerve and show some of my designs, and find out exactly how bad they are. :p This is a (scruffy) 3D model of my ideas so far, and in the time it took me to model it I've...
  11. RCBinChicken

    Ikea style folding CNC table?

    Of all the words I was expecting to encounter in this forum, that wasn't one of them! :P That aside, I think your point about the general utility of a regular table is a valid one.
  12. RCBinChicken

    Hello from NZ!

    You're likely correct - while I currently feel like a short-hop fun-flyer would be more than enough, that may well change once the disease really takes hold. :P That said, I think I may be able to hedge my bets a little - I'm planning to design the rear of the craft in such a way that it could...
  13. RCBinChicken

    Hello from NZ!

    Awesome, I'll look into that one. Yes, that's what appealed to me so much about electric - the low maintenance/hassle factor and flight hour cost. Short flights - and a high initial investment for batteries - seemed a small price to pay for most of what I want out of my aircraft. :)
  14. RCBinChicken

    UFO- Useless Flying Object

    Thanks so much for finding and posting this, it's a gold-mine for me... Another few hours on this forum and I find ANOTHER design I never knew existed, that makes my own pipe-dream low-AR aircraft seem so much more plausible than I dared expect! The shot of the wooden interior construction is...
  15. RCBinChicken

    Hello from NZ!

    Ah. Apologies, seems I overly generalized.
  16. RCBinChicken

    Attention Tailless Nerds!

    That last sentence gives me hope for everything I planned to achieve! :D I'd also like to heartily concur on the ventral strakes, from an RC model perspective. My current "bash around" plane is, frankly, a messy/lousy build that I revised several times, a sort of prop-in-slot delta affair with...
  17. RCBinChicken

    Hello from NZ!

    Brilliant, thanks for the tip - I'd only looked at the Bloop plans so far, I'll start reading through the Goat asap.
  18. RCBinChicken

    Hello from NZ!

    Heck yeah! I've got Bloops 1 through 4 on my PC at present and working my way through them whenever I have a quiet moment. :D I suspect I'd better look through his other ones too...
  19. RCBinChicken

    Hello from NZ!

    YES! I learned about Mike Arnold's work recently and watched a couple of his videos, was blown away - especially his simple, matter-of-fact explanation about adverse pressure gradients as "nozzles". Amazing guy! Haven't watched the Rutan one yet but I've long admired Rutan's work (who hasn't, I...
  20. RCBinChicken

    Hello from NZ!

    Warning taken RE: the Primer. Thanks! To be honest (and shallow) I just liked the shape of it from the couple photos I saw (and would likely have deviated from that a fair bit too.) Yes, Mike Sandlin's setups seem like the clear winner for most of the qualities I want in a plane. Again, the idea...
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