Little Dipper (oz14364)
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Lockheed Little Dipper. Radio control scale model.
Quote (google-translated from the Italian): "This small, low-wing, open-cabin single-seat that has throughout the characteristics of a classic home-made aircraft was designed and built by the most surprising of companies: Lockheed. Yes, precisely that of the F-104 and the SR-71 Blackbird, the design certainly did not take place in the Skunk Works, where in addition to the aforementioned, another out of the ordinary aircraft was conceived such as the U2, but this airplane was still born within this extraordinary company.
Who knows what prompted Lockheed to build this little thing... maybe they had some aluminum scraps they didn't know how to dispose of. But they immediately regretted it, so much so that only one example was built. Why did I choose to reproduce this funny plane?
Because I was attracted by a detail that makes a bad impression on many: the huge rudder. I could conclude with a couple of clichés such as 'what is beautiful is not beautiful' or 'de gustibus...'. but in reality I also wanted another large model being tired of voting, for 5-6 years now with that BIG model with extraordinary flying qualities which is the Czech Top Model Pilatus. They have sold them all over the world, but they have stopped building it probably to favor the diffusion of that other extraordinary towing machine which goes by the name of Bidule which probably allows higher profit margins and which, again due to the clichés mentioned above, I don't like it at all.
I wanted a model with even more peaceful characteristics than those of the Pilatus, in fact the large chord increases, with the same wingspan, the bearing surface and I have been thinking for some time of using a thick profile with a greater curvature than the one usually used; the NACA 4415. At the moment, June 2020, the model finished about a year ago, has only made a few flights so I know little about its characteristics in the air; I can say, however, that the landing speed with the flaps down seems even lower than that of the Pilatus, which is saying something.
What are the reasons for the little use of the Little Dipper? Mainly two: the fork of the front carriage and the diaphragms of the carburettor of the DLE 111 which have never been changed since the day of its purchase. The nose gear on models of this type is not easy to find. It's true that there are drums of different sizes, but the forks allow the assembly of small wheels, in any case smaller than the ones I intended to use.
To make a new fork, I turned to my friend Adelio, a teacher in an important technical institute equipped with CNC machines and willing to help me. The first fork was built in aluminum with high mechanical characteristics, but it broke the day the wheel axle slipped off during taxiing and all the weight of the model was discharged, with a hit on the ground, on one of the arms. Adelio then suggested making a fork with a 3D printer, leaving me perplexed about the achievable resistance. With the size of the arms and joints increased, the fork is proving to be able to adequately perform its task. Let's hope it lasts!
The membranes stopped working one day in September, when I went to the field at the end of the Autonomy competition that has been taking place here for several years now. After the first shots for starting the engine, mixture began to come out of the carburettor, showing the degradation of the diaphragms. Another friend (it's nice to have many!) such Franco, from Bergamo, also known as Barbecucchi after the union of his surname with that of barbecue due to the fact that he is a great expert in cooking very tasty salarnelle, an operation he carries out with skill..."
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Quote: "Hi Mary, one large model for 110 c.c. gas engines. Semiscale of a simple, little airplane that was born alongside some of the fastest and complicated airplanes ever built in Lockheed Skunkworks. I believe that Lockheed had some aluminum sheet left over,
Ciao, Beppe Ghisleri"
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(oz14364)
Little Dipper
by Giuseppe Ghisleri
from Modellismo
March 2020
130in span
Scale IC R/C
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Submitted: 26/01/2023
Filesize: 592KB
Format: • PDFbitmap • CADfile
Credit*: GiuseppeGhisleri
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