Wishbone (oz3727)

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Wishbone. 78in span A2 FF glider to A/2 specifications. Aeromodeller May 1964.

Quote: - "Britain's Best A/2! by Al Wisher.

THIS MODEL FIRST CAME about during the Christmas holiday 1962. Al Wisher had been drifting about from one free flight contest class to another, and decided at this time to concentrate on one class. Glider was the choice mainly because in his view power models are too expensive to lose and rubber models too fiddlesome. He wanted a model that would be quick and simple to build as he hated building! He is also a strong believer of the saying 'if you can't cut it with a razor blade or bend it with a pair of pliers, don't use it'.

The model should essentially have a good still airtime with towline stability, so that one could play it 'on the line' until a good patch of air came along. As it turned out 'Wishbone' does not have to be played - just tow it up and leave it there! Only one alteration was made and that was a 1/32 turbulator added to the wing. The model used to stall twice from a stalled launch. At first cotton turbulators were tried but made no difference, so a larger one was tried with success. As Vic Jays said, 'it does not spill the air over the wing, it makes it fall flat on its face'.

The model lasted all through 1963, being lost only twice and luckily returned both times. At the Woking Gala the model was lost upwards, though the dethermaliser was seen to pop, and it landed in Essex, some 45 miles away."

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