Stuart,
I am new to the WW so others may have better answers to your
questions. But for what it is worth:
Yes, drop by your friendly hobby shop; who knows you may find some other
neat stuff to build with your 5-year old!
It is a pretty tiny plane and you will be able to build a bunch of
them with little cost. Ask for a sheet of 1/16" and another 1/8" thick
balsa. It'll come about 3" X 36" Some glue is also needed. CA is like
Super Glue - works quick but can be a real problem gluing your own
fingers. I would not recommend it around a five year old! If you do use
it be careful and buy the thick stuff. You'll also need a single edge
razor blade or an E-ACTO knife. Hum-m-m have you considered Leggo) You can
get clay at most toy stores cheap. Good luck and e-mail me your longest
flights - time in the air and distance. REMEMBER contest is on the 26th so
the flights have to be on that day.
Jack
At 07:56 AM 12/22/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>I downloaded the plans and I am going to build a few with my 5 year old this
>weekend.
>
>Question: what are the best sources of supplies? Do I need to get to a
>hobby
>shop to buy the balsa, or is there another source (I assume Home Depot
>doesn't
>have it)? And for the nose weight - a good cheap source? I have to buy
>everything so I might as well get the cheapest stuff I can - plumbers putty?
>
>
>
> >===== Original Message From "Harley Michaelis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =====
> >Hi Joel. . .I messed with reduced decalage, rounded LE's, rounded tips,
> >swept tips, thinned tips and thinned stabs, smaller stabs, airfoiled stabs,
> >airfoiled wings, longer nose moment arms, shorter nose moment arms, longer
> >fuselages, slimmer fuselages, more dihedral, less dihedral, shorter center,
> >longer tips, longer center, shorter tips, lighter balsa, heavier balsa,
> >etc. and still barely broke 10 seconds, so the secret of better performance
> >as Tom and others have experienced still escapes me.
> >
> >Maybe after this next contest is finished, the leaders will be kind enough
> >to pass on their techniques in building or launching for the rest of us
> >underachievers. I can't recall who it was, but while one of the numerous
> >Whizzes built performed notably better than the others, said he could not
> >really say why. I do know that best performance is related to bank angle,
> >launch angle and launch speed that gets maximum height and gives a nice
> >transition at the top into a flat glide. Hard to quantify. The little
> >things move so fast, I don't even know where they are heading right after
> >launch!
> >
> >----------
> >> From: Joel A. Foner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> To: Harley Michaelis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Cc: Gordon McArthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Jack Gross
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tom Broeski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> Subject: RE: WHIPPER WHIZ INTERGALACTIC CONTEST!
> >> Date: Thursday, December 21, 2000 9:09 PM
> >>
> >> I've posted this to the Charles River Whipper Whiz page and rearranged
> >the
> >> page a bit to have a Contest Results and Rules section for on-going
> >> additions. I also added this as a home page link to drum up some
> >interest!
> >> (Maybe get someone in the running against you "pro's"!)
> >>
> >> Our four and seven year olds love their Whiz's, but they're nowhere near
> >the
> >> current records... Across the living room and hit the wall at four feet
> >> height is their idea of fun! Maybe we'll try for a design that'll do a
> >> ridiculous number of loops or something ;)
> >>
> >> What are people doing to these to hit the latest crop of distance and
> >> duration records? Closer to zero/zero alignment, from the looks of
> >Cliff's
> >> pictures - anything else? Airfoiled wing and tail? Got any design tips
> >to
> >> post?
> >>
> >> In any case, the updated page is at:
> >>
> >> (the following URL should be all on one line)
> >>
> >http://www.charlesriverrc.org/articles/whipperwhiz/whipperwhiz_2000contest3.
> >
> >> htm
> >>
> >> Regards and happy holidays,
> >>
> >> Joel
> >>
> >> Joel Foner
> >> Webmaster - Charles River Radio Controllers
> >> http://www.charlesriverrc.org/
> >> IRCHA #1458
> >>
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