Firestrike (oz1725)
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Firestrike. Delta sport control line model, for .049-.8cc motors. From Christmas 1968 Aeromodeller.
Quote: "BUILT TO INTRODUCE a 15-year-old son to C/l flying, this is an easily built dual purpose model, strong, safe, yet flexible enough to offer really lively fun. Designed for .5 - .8 cc diesel or glow, Firestrike has been given fairly strict scale fighter lines. It is felt that unless a model looks and flies like a real aircraft it has no place in the air (some early models have agreed with the author rather unexpectedly!).
Build Firestrike - then fly it to pieces - it will take longer than you think! The original is still completely undamaged except for tissue patches after countless flights, four absolute beginners and many very hard landings. Before commencing building, study the plan and instructions carefully, the delta structure is far more simple than it at first appears.
The basic step, and incidentally the one on which success depends is the assembly of only seven pieces, which should first be fitted without cement to check a good fit and without warp in the head-on view. Make up the control plate assembly of 3/16 ply or Perspex using a 6 B.A. bolt as a pivot and soldering the nuts to prevent working loose in flight. Next cut brace E, Formers A & B and trailing edge.
Take main ribs and insert control assembly through slot, then slot in the T.E. and former A, making sure all components are in alignment after addition of brace E and former D. Cut and fit leading edges, elevons (fixed) and wing tips (made from scrap leading edge section), again checking alignment. Now add the remaining formers and ribs in normal manner as shown in the perspective view on the plan. Note that it is necessary to chamfer the outer edge of each former to allow for wing sweep...."
Update 13/12/2016: added article, thanks to RFJ.
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(oz1725)
Firestrike
by RC Povey
from Aeromodeller
December 1968
13in span
IC C/L
clean :)
all formers complete :)
got article :) -
Found online 28/10/2011 at:
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