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Tram
Dec 22, 2005, 06:44 PM
Hey guys-

I am always looking for "unique model's" and am getting plans for one of these for Christmas.. :)

http://www.home-taylor.freeserve.co.uk/whizzywig1/whizzywig%20gallery.html

Just thought I would share.. Should be tons of fun out on the lake this summer!
ghee-grose
Dec 22, 2005, 07:41 PM
That's a funny looking thing!
Tram
Dec 22, 2005, 07:51 PM
Yeh, your just jealous. :D
Ultralight
Dec 23, 2005, 05:34 PM
That thing looks awesome!



Jason
wheatfly
Dec 24, 2005, 05:45 PM
I helped a guy build one of those in Auburn for and AIAA paper. It was a pretty tricky beast and we made a ton of changes to the original build techniques. It was built to just slide around on the ground a little bit. Never really "flew" it like it was suppose to be flown for fear of destroying it and not getting the stuff for the paper. I might can hunt up a few pictures or something.
Tram
Dec 24, 2005, 05:51 PM
I'd love to see the pics.. :)
wheatfly
Dec 27, 2005, 10:18 PM
This is the only one I could locate at the moment.
atjurhs
Dec 28, 2005, 10:38 AM
Hey can I borrow that thing this Summer to mow my yard :p
Tram
Dec 28, 2005, 10:52 AM
So wheatfly - you guys weren't pleased with it eh? That's no good..
wheatfly
Dec 28, 2005, 01:39 PM
I wouldn't say that. I had no experience with WIG's and the other guy, Robert, had never done anything RC before. We followed some advise from another more experienced balsa builder. We built it light and didn't plan on going over watter. It flipped once and damaged the tail a little bit (we built it too light/weak). Robert got scared and didn't want to damage it before he got his data. Also we ran low on time and wouldn't have had time to rebuild if something real bad happened.
There were some stability issues but I think they could have been worked out. I don't think we ever got it up to a good speed either. It was more hanging on the front to motors that flying in ground effect.
All that to say my experience is very limited with it and couldn't give you a real opinion of how well it performs. I am very interested to here how your experience goes with it.
Tram
Dec 28, 2005, 09:48 PM
Yeh, I think I saw some pics of his.. Did he have it tethered at some point?