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Wasp. Chuck glider from FROG.

Quote: "Here's a Frog glider you can probably make in an evening. Thanks to the efforts of of Les Saxby, I'm pleased to present the 12 inch span Wasp glider. Les told me he was surprised (and delighted) to come across four of these kits on sale in a country garage on a holiday in Wales in the 1970's - price? Just £1 each. Needless to say he bought the lot! The part patterns are copied from an original kit. I suspect you can get away with a hard balsa fuselage instead of obeche."

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I just saw the Wasp appear on your random plan slot, looked it up and saw that no comment had been posted. Last summer, when we were 'stuck' with a 7-year-old lad for the day, I made this from Mike's House of Frog site, used [as you suggested] balsa throughout [didn't have any obeche!] took boy and glider to my local slope and, boy, did it fly!
AlanVernon - 11/07/2013
I came to visit my grandmother who lives in a rural area, to distract myself and encourage my hobby I usually bring 3mm and 2mm balsa wood boards along with free flight airplane plans. I made this design because it was the simplest of what I had brought and boy did it fly, I took my mom with me, we went to a small hill near the house. The first launch was very good although short, it came back to me like a boomerang, I thought I would do the same for the second launch but it continued on, the plane advanced a lot and then turned left following the junction of the mountain in front of us and the mountain we were on.
The plane continued flying without losing much height, I couldn't believe that this was happening, then it made another turn to the left but from where I was it was no longer possible to see it, so I have an idea of ??where it could have fallen, but I couldn't find it.
Tomorrow I will try to find it because I want to take it home as a trophy.
This plane made me feel the need to buy a dethermalizer.
I used 3mm very soft balsa wood for the wings and fuselage, two parts joined together with CA glue (cyanoacrylate) give me a good rigidity, for the tail group 2mm of hard balsa.
I hope it helps, if you are reading this, try it, it will be fun. A tip, soft balsa wood for the wings will make it easier for you to design the wing profile. Measure the third part of the wing: on the cut wood, measure each end and divide in 3, that result you measure from the leading edge, so you have a good reference line so you don't go over the cuts. I say cuts because I use the scalpel to reduce a large part of the wing, once rounded I give it a lot of the hardest sandpaper and when I am satisfied a pass with medium grade sandpaper is not bad.
Mikel - 07/01/2025
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