[WWI] Ultralight slow fliers

[Stephen Auslender]

" Rob!
How does Bob Pearson decide on his colours for the wonderful profiles he 
does?"
"He has a magic tooth that says what the colours are.
D."

YES!
I just knew there was a rational answer to the question of colors.
I can sleep easy tonight.:-)

On another note, yesterday I spent the day observing guys flying indoor RC 
"slow fliers" in an armory in New Jersey. Most of the planes were either 
sport non-scale designs, some were modified historical types, like Santos 
Dumont's plane with two wings and no elevator (1911 I believe?). But there 
was one builder there with some nice WW1 scale planes and they flew very 
nicely.
The reduction of electric motors, receivers, batteries and servos to 
incredibly small sizes really amazed me. Some of these flew slowly enough 
that one could trot along under them. They fly indoors to avoid winds 
because they are so light (and fragile). It was something to see that 
triplane do a loop, by the way.
So I am going to get into this new development of Radio Control and see if I 
can make a scale (with all the wing ribs indicated) model Se5-A
that will actually fly. The problem is one of weight, and the more detail 
one puts into the plane the heavier and less flyable it becomes.
Should be a very interesting time for me.
I'll keep you guys in touch with the developments.
Maybe old Reginald will be able to fly his six gun Se5-A after all.
Stephen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Diego Fernetti" <dfernet0 at rosario.gov.ar>
To: "World War I Modeling Mailing List" <wwi at wwi-models.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 6:07 AM
Subject: Re: [WWI] "Accurate colours"


> Rob!
>> How does Bob Pearson decide on his colours for the wonderful profiles he 
>> does?
>
> He has a magic tooth that says what the colours are.
> D.
>