RC Land Sailing

[stuka]

Closer look at the set up. Made 3 mast positions...not sure which one work best yet.... .....will let u guys know.

[loyn]

Stuka what the ....... ...... I am toooooooooooo sloooooowwwwwww ...........

You got 26hr a day ......or time stand still around you....... ..... you build soooooooo fast........

[Vifo]

1st rc LandSail under 5 hours

Stuka,

You are voted by me to be the Most Innovative and Accomplish Builder.
Looks ready for This Monsoon Wind, no need to wait to end of Year.

Good luck, please post how She Sails.

[loyn]

Sorry BTW did it have a break ......

[stuka]

loyn, 5 hours of work this evening without dinner u know.... ...but i think i can build slightly faster because already have all the materials...heh heh...

[Vifo]

Fantastic

The lighting speed you took to build, puts my effort to get Mike to post the web video behind time.

Halooooo, Moderator, it about time to do some Catchup with Speedy Stuka.

[stuka]

Thank you Vifo.. ...much of the ideas were borrowed from boat projects, tats y i could do it quite quickly. Have to thank u for introducing this very interesting subject.

I just tested it with a fan hanging low blowing at about 45 degrees. It does move but slow.. ....probably need a taller sail and ball bearing wheels.

[Vifo]

RC Land Sailing Space

Hi,
I do know that we do not have the luxury of Space(site) for racing such craft.
If you check on Stuka's model, it can be deployed for racing in Car Parks, surely there are many Vacant Open Air Car Park, Kallang Stadium for one, not to mention DaddyHobby Humble Flying Lavender CarPark site, go to Open Roof Deck etc.
The beauty is to design one that is collapsible and can you can bring along even in Train and Bus, no more handicap for those who do not drive.
Stuka, I am confident this Re-design Engineering will be up your sleeve.
Happy Building.

[upitreks]

what the.... stuka! you.. you.. so good!
hmm, are you a product designer?

[stuka]

Not a product designer....

Replaced the sail, 80cm tall, area approx 880 cm2. Also changed to lighter and bigger rear wheels, the previous wheels were made of hard rubber, they r almost twice as heavy.The transparent sail was cut from a roll of thin plastic book cover.

[Vifo]

RC Land Sailing Web & Video

Hi Stuka,
Glad you are way ahead, got some interesting Web site reference which we can emulate in terms of Design etc.

http://home.att.net/~rcsailcars/index.htm

Check out the Video on left side of main page

[stuka]

....tats great fun....i think this is the only rc capable of playing football...

I am of the opinion that we have to build big model such as these...5 ft to 6 ft tall cos we have very little wind close to ground.

[loyn]

Man this design is cool.....simple but effective , as pipe is always the strongest structure.....but looks like RC PVC pipe Hmmmm really looks big on the ground, what stuka said is true. You need big sail to catch the wind close to the ground, I think

So stuka did you try out your new toy yet how did it perform , show us some video if you can, thank for sharing

BTW is the sail directional control is link with the front wheel ?

[Orangie]

Wah...this is good.

http://www.rclandsailing.com/design.html

Wanna start on it? Very cool leh... Similiar to your victoria minus the water

[HZM]

Vifo, I rx yr file, but it cant be played and require some form of codec .... any other link that I can DL and post here?


Mike