Hi, Im building a scratch plane large scale 12.5 feet length/11.5 wingspan MD-80 Type.... I really like your flaps... DId you manuf. or purchase.... Plans somewhere... hardware? anyhow if your willing to share...
The arrival of an exchange student from Japan interrupted plans for an initial flight. All that remains to be conducted is a series of fast taxi sessions.
George will not be competing with it at the AMA NATs this year. Probably the first contest will be in Lakeland, Florida at the 2009 Top Gun.
When video of its initial flights is available it will be posted.
At the size of this Tu-95 it was easiest for George to use Flexible nyrod in each wing to push and pull carbon fiber tubes fore and aft which were attached to pivot points attacned to the flap sections. There were trravel stops which when the push tubes continued to move rearward...forced the leading edges back
and the rear edges to tilt down.
A single large servo pushed and pulled flaps on both wings to assure mechanical symetry if for some reason the servo failed the airfoil would the same
Bravo! Have a brandy on me :)
GerbilEssences 1 year ago
You think this is wild...you should see the B-47 fowler set-up. Will attach some video in the near future.
ScaleAero 1 year ago
This is so awesome! Congratulations on that difficult, but oh so cool fowler flaps.
jeta45 1 year ago
Very nice! Was it tough to make to work?
777muzzy 1 year ago
Its straight forward, literally. Held inline by carbon fiber tube within a tube.
The motion path stop forced by the stop rod turns the rearward motion into pivoted "tilt" of the flap since it can not move rearward any further.
As simple as one could hope for.
ScaleAero 3 years ago
Can you post up picks and or give us a walk around of the project.
Thanks.
JoseKagan 2 years ago
Hi, Im building a scratch plane large scale 12.5 feet length/11.5 wingspan MD-80 Type.... I really like your flaps... DId you manuf. or purchase.... Plans somewhere... hardware? anyhow if your willing to share...
RealFlyGuy23 3 years ago
All scratch built from three view line art and photo documentation. C/F tube in tube as explained above.
Look at the bottom view of video to see the mechanical action of the flaps.
ScaleAero 2 years ago
That is sweet.
genysys20 3 years ago
has it been flown yet?
vthoe 3 years ago
The arrival of an exchange student from Japan interrupted plans for an initial flight. All that remains to be conducted is a series of fast taxi sessions.
George will not be competing with it at the AMA NATs this year. Probably the first contest will be in Lakeland, Florida at the 2009 Top Gun.
When video of its initial flights is available it will be posted.
ScaleAero 3 years ago
Yes, the video is in U-Tube
ScaleAero 3 years ago
I look forward to it.
vthoe 3 years ago
Have you flown it yet?
vthoe 3 years ago
On july 19th the maiden flight of the Tu-95 will occur. It will be flown at the AMA NATs in Muncie in August.
ScaleAero 3 years ago
How do it woks? Is there any control under compartment within the wing?
mediasonic 3 years ago
At the size of this Tu-95 it was easiest for George to use Flexible nyrod in each wing to push and pull carbon fiber tubes fore and aft which were attached to pivot points attacned to the flap sections. There were trravel stops which when the push tubes continued to move rearward...forced the leading edges back
and the rear edges to tilt down.
A single large servo pushed and pulled flaps on both wings to assure mechanical symetry if for some reason the servo failed the airfoil would the same
ScaleAero 3 years ago