Dervish (oz9739)

 

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Dervish. Radio control sportsetr for .35 to .40 power.

Quote: "AFTER FLYING for a few years with gliders and lightly loaded general purpose sports models, I felt it was time to go for something a little more interesting. I had lost a lot of flying days thanks to windy conditions and so decided to design and build something with a higher wing loading capable of flying through those gustier days. I had just become the proud owner of a Super Tigre 46 which I decided to build around, and the Dervish was the result.

It was designed as an intermediate aerobatic model for .30 to .45 engines. It has not flown with a .40, but this size of engine should prove ideal as my O.S. 30 pulls it around fairly well but does need some coaxing in some of the vertical manoeuvres. Some attention on the part of the builder to keeping the weight down may, of course, help a little.

Construction: Fuselage. Contact adhesive was used to bond the doublers to the sheet sides, and PVA used for the triangular stock. These give most of the strength to the fuselage, so let them dry before fitting the formers F2 and F3 with epoxy. After drawing in the tail and fitting Fl, with its triangular reinforcement, the ply UC mount may be fitted and the underside of the fuselage sheeted. I found it best to fit the tailplane at this stage, and also to attend to the elevator and rudder linkages. I used bowden cable linkages..."

Dervish, Radio Modeller, September 1979.

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Dervish (oz9739) by CM White 1979 - model pic

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  • (oz9739)
    Dervish
    by CM White
    from Radio Modeller
    September 1979 
    54in span
    IC R/C
    clean :)
    all formers complete :)
    got article :)
  • Submitted: 21/01/2018
    Filesize: 737KB
    Format: • PDFbitmap
    Credit*: Circlip, RFJ
    Downloads: 1025

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