| Image Comments |
| John Cooper | 06-Feb-08 19:31 |
| The heavy Peck prop, at 3.5 g, account for 1/3 the weight of the model. It also balances the plane without adding nose weight. |
| poppy | 06-Feb-08 19:39 |
| Now this looks like a scale rubber powered flying lightweight. Excellent craftsmanship. This is art in another dimension! |
| Creosotewind | 07-Feb-08 09:53 |
| I feel like I need to hold my breath when looking at this plane. It looks so delicate. But a beautiful job. Good work. |
| sweetwillie | 07-Feb-08 11:41 |
| Beautiful work JC. I couldn't do it with these old fingers. It's just too delicate. It's a real work of art. |
| John Cooper | 07-Feb-08 11:50 |
| Thanks. It has actually blown off the work bench once due to passing air currents. It is certainly delicate to hold; however, once it is flying it is quite robust. I have test glided it in the living room and it goes slow enough that it simply bounces off anything it hits. |
| David Duckett | 07-Feb-08 13:06 |
| "...on gossamer wings..". Lovely!! |
| jgood | 07-Feb-08 20:40 |
| John, you must get some video of this flying, I'd love to see it. Lovely work. |
| John Cooper | 11-Feb-08 23:18 |
| Here is a video of one of the first flights. It required very little trimming:
http://www.scaleflight.net/videos/p6e_flight.avi
Note that the video is quite large (27M) |
| John M Oshust | 11-Feb-08 23:28 |
| John...IToday, attempted building a Zephyr craft and realized, I cannot see delicate parts, nor assemble them. After 2 hrs. I trashed the plane and await further adventures. |
