"Plans" &c for the Tailess Mystery Pusher
You should be able to print these by eliminating the margins in your printer set up, clicking the image,
selecting [View Image] and printing. At least that's how to do it with Netscape.

If anyone can't do a GIF let me know and I'll try to work something out.
dannysoar@worldnet.att.net

There is a likeliness that I've screwed something up. Getting a GIF of the right size was at the very edge of my nerd envelope. Let me know.

There is a copy of the Koptonak Drawing and maybe more on the WINDY SOCK site. In any case it's a fine site and well worth checking out.
WINDY SOCK (CLICK)

http://www.battlecreek.net/volare/alamo/default.htm

This is a GIF of the the plan for the original 1932 Version. John Koptonak drew this plan for his excellent news letter for the Norwich Flying Aces, "Wingovers and Wallbangers. I've seen one built this way and it was a bit of a disappointment.

I figured it needed lightness and bigness so I enlarged this plan 122% in a Xerox Machine and made
stick and tissue wings. My working drawing for the wings appears below.

I made the wings of 1/16 square, small camber ribs, and alligator hide.

Struts
I made the struts of 1/16". I made the right and left ones as complete separate units and glued them to the wings at the dihedral break. I made a each thusly. I made a parallelegram, slightly distorted to
build in the negative incidence . And then added a diagonal . I braced the corners with scrap 1/32 glued over the joint . Then I cut away most of the centers of the bottom of the parallelgram and glued on the wings.

My motor stick is a piece of 1/4" x 1/8".
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It has a hand carved propof fairly low pitch. This was a lucky guess as the model does a twisty roll with too much torque.
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CG under the center of the top wing.
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Mine has a trim tab dangling from the top right wing
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The current rubber seems to be a loop of 1/16, 1.2 times the length of the motor stick.

I realise this might be a bit difficult to follow. So feel free to ask questions.
dannysoar @worldnet.att.net

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