Here's a neat trick. Suppose your Hitler War Wonder is spinning
in out of lift. What's to do? Do you use up all that extra light balsa
making a smaller fin? Not if you're Ed Novak. A little scale flack damage
and he's back in combat and looking bad.
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There's
more going on here than I understand. Here's what I think I know. The culprit
is Bruce Holbrook. It started as a VTO Legal Eagle, "the Insanity Flea".
. The plot was to have the two props blow air towards the center
of the model over a couple of airfoils and have the model rise straight
up. Next he changed it into the version which you see here. But come to
find out it was an Illegal Eagle, so he morphed it into an Embryo renamed
"The Transcender".
Bruce has some interesting thoughts on propellers.
I've seen it fly in what I think was the Transcender form. It zoomed up with incredible authority, but the glide left something to be desired. But Bruce is still on the chase and who knows what the future will bring.
The picture doesn't do justice to the ingenious propeller release mechanism.
Turning a wheel right behind the windshield tugs on a couple of wires which
until the very moment are blocking both props. And Buzzz! off it goes.
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And where have we seen this before? Look at the
Schedules
Page . Larry Peavy did it. He printed out my drawing, glued it
to a sheet of foam, and mounted the whole thing on an ?enlarged? Dave
Aronstein Twin Pusher. Pretty neat!.
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Bizzy Jim Norfolk sends this very interesting collection of high weird-
Clockwise from the lower left we have a Bat Plane, an X Plane,
Raymond Massey's Bolide, a Sky Rocket (remember this - Black hawk
fans?) and an Assender. For a larger pic of Raymond Massey's Bolide, head
off to the Airplanes
of Things to Come page [KLICK].
I'm always looking for pix..
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