Herr Flick (oz8600)

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Herr Flick. Radio control sport model, for 0.45 cu in engines and 4 channels.

Quote: "Make the trailing edges deckle-edged, put a round fin and rudder on the back, a few crosses, maybe and you have a Germanic looking sports model. Well, if the model has a German connection we should give it a Teutonic sounding name, not too serious and in keeping with the fun aspect. Why not 'Herr Flick', it suits the intentions of the design.

No need for a great diatribe regarding design, construction, or even flying techniques with Herr Flick, this is a straight forward simple to build, easy to fly model with an emphasis on fun sports flying. You can decide how fear inducing you want it to be by selecting the engine and control movements accordingly. The prototype model had a 45 engine fitted initially and this was more than enough for general, exciting flying, a 40 is quite sufficient for normal sports flying where vertical performance is not at a premium.

Four functions are all that are required from the radio equipment, I wouldn't bother trying to use the ailerons as flaperons, the results will probably be disappointing. Keep it simple, keep it light and keep it for a bit of fun.

Construction: First trim the plan edges and joint the two sheets. Check the spacing of the servo bearers, you can use separate aileron servos, but this isn't really necessary with a model of this size. If you are using a lightweight 30 to 40 engine, you may find that the battery pack will need to go under the fuel tank to attain the correct balance point without adding ballast. Use a flat battery pack and wrap it in a polythene bag (just in case the fuel tank splits). An 8 oz fuel tank can be used for the larger, more thirsty engines.

Choose an engine mount to suit the engine and a nose leg to suit the mount, it can be a steerable nose leg if desired. For really rough flying sites you can dispense with the undercarriage altogether, sheet the bottom of the fuselage, back to F3, with Liteply.

Fuselage: Straight, square and ugly, with a completely flat bottom! Contact glue the doublers to the 1/8 in fuselage sides, glue formers F1, 2 and 3 to the sides. You can do this over the plan view to ensure that the front end is square. Pull in the rear fuselage, adding formers F4, 5 and 6..."

Direct submission to Outerzone.

Update 15/04/2017: added article, thanks to RFJ.

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