Sembawang Morning Funfly 18 June 2006

[weeliano]

Here are just some of the pictures taken at Sembawang. Enjoy!

[Lee]

Thanks for all the great shots. Your Tucano is really impressive and fierce man.

More fun next weekend.

Regards,
LEE

[weeliano]

Hey No Problem man! I enjoyed taking the pictures as much as flying my Tucano.
Let me know if you want the rest of the pictures, I'll pass them to you on CD-ROM. Too many pictures to choose and process, so I just take those that look the nicest . Of course I'm biased towards my Tucano that's why got so many pictures here

Definitely I'll be there next weekend! Adrian's gonna maiden his F-15, I went to his place and now it's got panel lines! Looks fantastic!

[csisfun]

Do you use Picasa2?

[DennisP]

Great flying shots...

[weeliano]

Do you use Picasa2?

No, I use Imageshack to upload each image individually and then I copied the links back to the post and embed it using the Insert Image tool of of the message composer.

[weeliano]

Great flying shots...

Thanks Dennis! I have to thank Adrian and his wife Claira for helping to take photos and video of my flying Tucano respectively!

[DennisP]

I have also read your construction thread on the Tucano very interesting, especially when you were cutting the wings. I have a Feathercut it is a nice machine but very expensive to bring to Singapore, even with all the good features of the machine I have had a few wings turn out like yours with canals in them, which was usually due to the template being not good enough.

Great thread which I enjoyed reading and well done.

[weeliano]

I have also read your construction thread on the Tucano very interesting, especially when you were cutting the wings. I have a Feathercut it is a nice machine but very expensive to bring to Singapore, even with all the good features of the machine I have had a few wings turn out like yours with canals in them, which was usually due to the template being not good enough.

Great thread which I enjoyed reading and well done.

Hey Thanks Dennis! Yeah I'm eyeing the Feathercut machine now, but I don't think I want to spend US$179 (less shipping) to bring it in. I am pretty confident I can build a working clone using plastic pulleys, extruded aluminum bars, wood and good quality flexible rubber insulated wire . I'll post my results once I built it!

[DennisP]

Most of the parts seem like standard aluminum extrusions, they key bit is the pulleys must be able to move up and down the tracts. The bar with the weight on it is also important and it is a heavy solid block of lead. By moving the pulleys and the weight you can cut any foam wing with a constant speed through the foam, it is even possible to cut elliptical wings should you wish to.

I suspect if you saw the manual it would all seem so obvious as it tells you how to calculate the various distances for any shape of wing. I have to go away for a week on business tomorrow, but on my return I will make a copy of the manual for you. You had better drop me a PM next Friday to remind me as I may forget between now and then..

[weeliano]

Most of the parts seem like standard aluminum extrusions, they key bit is the pulleys must be able to move up and down the tracts. The bar with the weight on it is also important and it is a heavy solid block of lead. By moving the pulleys and the weight you can cut any foam wing with a constant speed through the foam, it is even possible to cut elliptical wings should you wish to.

I suspect if you saw the manual it would all seem so obvious as it tells you how to calculate the various distances for any shape of wing. I have to go away for a week on business tomorrow, but on my return I will make a copy of the manual for you. You had better drop me a PM next Friday to remind me as I may forget between now and then..

Hey Dennis! Thanks a million! I'd really appreciate it! Thanks for your offer! I'll definitely PM you next Friday! Meanwhile I'll hunt for the materials to build my new foam cutting rig. For adjusting the pulley distance, I'm going to use long screws with large flat heads that can slide into the extruded aluminum slots and then use the nuts and washers to tighten the position.

[DennisP]

If you look carefully at the FeatherCut web page you will that the entire suite of foam cutting tools uses the same parts with a few extra bits. Study before you build and I am sure you achieve all.