Little V (oz6920)

 

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Here is a photo of my Little V [main pic]. I built it from your plan. Please feel free to use photo. A great little flyer and so easy and cheap to build. 5 stars. Thank you.
RonBuckwell - 28/02/2016
Hello Steve! I just wanted to show you some pics of some planes I built from plans available at Outerzone. This is Little V Glider, built in Feb and March 2016 [more pics 004-006].
Sebastian - 27/04/2016
The user photos and comments are more than enough reward for the time expended cleaning and repositioning the bits on the original plan.
Circlip - 28/04/2016
Little V built to the plan from Outerzone [more pics 007, 008].
Al - 28/04/2017
Little V is a lovely plane and a nice easy build. It is a pretty good flyer for a "ruddervator" v-tail, once I'd used the designed dihedral. I built it too flat at first for the rudder to be effective but after test flights showed the problem I sawed the wing in two and re-joined it with the correct angle and it now turns well. It's robust, too, as it's easily survived some harsh landings on the South Downs. My only I wish is that I had added a ballast box under the servos as penetration could be better. My photos attached for the web site of the plane and my take on the sliding servo tray [more pics 009-011]. I tried to copy covering design of the original but used tissue and Ezedope instead of solarfilm - so perhaps even more retro than the original? So, thanks for putting this plan on Outerzone!
PeteNewman - 18/09/2017
I build a V tail glider, very similar in size, back in 1974, plus or minus a year. Mine was covered with silk and dope on the fuselage and the wing. The wing had several more ribs than the current plan. Mine, unfortunately, never flew BUT I do still have the model although it does need to be recovered.
Bob Blubaugh - 22/05/2019
Hello, I just finished making a foam board Little V glider using your plans! I would like to submit these three photos of it [pics 012-014]! Thanks,
Charles Kotasek - 05/01/2021
Hi there, Attached are some photos [pics 015-017] of the Little V (oz6920) we've built here in Brazil. It’d be nice to see those photo in the website, if possible. Congratulations for the website, it's priceless. Thank you very much,
Gustavo Delazaro - 24/03/2022
During August of '76 I was in the process of building two Pilot/OK Model Beaver gliders when a friend commented on how much it reminded him of a plane he had, a Little 'V' and after some discussion he brought it and the plans over so I could see it.
I immediately liked the V-tail and the sheeted wing so decided to use one of the fuselages I'd already built to use with the Little V wing and tail to compare it with the Beaver since they both had 36" wing spans and the chord, etc. we're similar - besides you can never have too many planes, 'right', (?).
For the mixer I used the same setup Bill Evans' Saracen used for it's elevons and to sheet the wings I used 1/64" ply with arrow shafts for the spars since I had an 8 ft. ASW-15 'whose' wings were built the same way and were virtually bullet proof.
For anyone wondering if there were any difference in performance it was negligible, although the standard (cruciform) tail on the Beaver tracked more positively than the Lil-V which appears to be "the nature of the beast" when it comes to V-tails - due to the lack of a vertical stab which adds to directional control.
Larry M Whalen - 02/05/2022
Good to see efforts were/are justified.
Circlip - 03/05/2022
Hi, is the Little V plan available in metric measurements. Thx
Ray Padoa - 28/07/2023
I'm sure you won't find it anywhere on this planet, it was published over 50 years ago in the Imperial System and so it stayed. But that shouldn't be a problem, you should be able to convert inch fractions into millimetres. Any cheap calculator can work those out on the basis that 1 inch = 25.4 mm. Just whistle if you need any further help :)
Miguel - 28/07/2023
Additionally, if you set the preferences in Acrobat Reader to measure in millimeters (Edit; Preferences; Units) you can use the measuring tool to get a direct metric readout of any part of the plan.
Jan Novick - 28/07/2023
Dear Mary and Steve, Thank you for your precious work that makes me starting my day with a smile looking if new plans have appeared overnight on Outerzone. I'm back with a new building, flight test and some pictures [pics 018-020].
Frivolous stuff:
One nice day my friend Sandro called at my office and presented me with a bag of unshaped balsa chunks, half-shaped half-glued formers and fuse sides, a flat-bottomed unfinished wing, and full-size plans printed from Outerzone of the Little V. Everything looked crooked and with the appearance of something that had not started well. With a smile he went: there, get this beautiful kit, finish it and fly it. I faked a grateful smile on receiving the stuff, brougth everything home and abandoned it in some corner of my shack for a few months. One nice day, I pushpinned the plan to my bench and got started to try and get things straight (literally). It was fun after all; as can be seen in the pictures, I've chosen a Graupner-ish finish and Bonanza-ish shaped tailfins. I had to re-learn to glue and dope model paper on balsa after 30+ years, by trials and errors and by watching videos on the subject. The black cockpit cover is an old remote control battery compartment cover. I was disposing of it after the remote died but realized that it could be upcycled as a super-perfect cockpit "window"!
Serious stuff:
I suggest to enlarge the tailfins area. I did that by 10% but I suggest to add even more area to the moving surfaces. No ailerons, you want some rudder autorithy. I had to give some negative angle to the wing. Added a 0,4 mm shim below the trailing edge to have it fly pretty straight with the indicated CG. Build light. It is a pleasure to see it soar slow and calm along the slope in marginal conditions. Even if the paper covering will be punctured by all and every blade of grass, not to mention thorns, twigs etc., at every landing (and even when it just sits on the grass between flights), it brings me back to my best days, therefore it fits me; use it if it fits you ;)
All the best from Genova, Italy,
Raffaello Bisso - 29/02/2024
Just short of 5K downloads, WOW
Circlip - 29/02/2024
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