Fun Flyer (oz14297)

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Fun Flyer. Radio control sport model.

Quote: "Designed for fun-fly events or just Sunday sport flying, this 40 powered 'Fun Flyer' lives up to its name in just about every way. By Joe Mergen.

If your R/C club is like most of the other clubs in America today, the most popular events of the flying year are the Fun-Flys or Fly-ins or whatever you call them. Because of their popularity, these events bring out a great crowd of participants and a vast variety of airplanes of varying sizes, shapes, and capabilities. The order of the day is to meet friends, admire airplanes, drink a lot of soda pop, eat hot dogs, and have a lot of fun in the competitive events.

The competitive tasks are usually simple enough that everyone can get into the act. Because of this, they are easy to complete but hard to win. Having the right airplane for the task helps but the tasks are seldom announced before you arrive and who brings four or five airplanes anyway? For example, its hard to win a timed event with a Quaker (as great an airplane as it is) or to risk your best scale or super pattern ship doing a limbo event.

Maybe what is needed is an airplane that is reasonably fast and maneuverable for the timed events. One that can get back to the finish line in a hurry after finishing the prescribed maneuvers but then slow way down for a spot landing for extra points.

While on the subject of landings, how about one that can make a landing before it wants to without leaving parts scattered around? It would be nice, too, to be able to keep the engine running after such a landing to avoid the necessity of walking a few hundred yards in front of the crowd to retrieve an airplane with a dead engine.

The ability to do quick loops and rolls is an absolute necessity and predictability in every maneuver is essential. Inverted flight must be second nature to the design.

In short, what we need is a fast but slew machine that is very quick but docile, flies inverted almost as casually as right side up, is always predictable, is rugged and one that we can be proud of during the 'admire the airplanes' time of the Fun-Fly!

With these and a few other thoughts in mind, Fun Flyer was designed as follows:

A 60 in wingspan model powered with a .40 also engine was picked as about the right size for a sport airplane.

The fuselage was held to 40 in for transportability without sacrificing pitching or directional stability.

The wings were made in two panels for easy transport.

Ample control surface area was provided for maneuverability about all three axes..."

Direct submission to Outerzone.

Scan by MarkD, cleanup by Circlip.

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