09-04-2013, 06:52 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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Originally Posted by ed.brown
http://www.modelairplanepages.com/a...x/aj-index.html
is a website devoted to making your own Jim Walker Interceptor Clone. Never could afford one of these when I was a pup (I believe they were 50 cents and the "74" gliders were 10 cents at that time. There was always a vendor in the parking lot at Lambert Field in St. Louis at that time.
This is the folding wing glider in my mind.
Enjoy,
Ed
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Thank you for posting this. This folding-wing concept should work for boost-gliders (B/Gs) and Rocket Gliders (RGs). It should make possible B/Gs and RGs with longer, narrower, sailplane-type wings, so that they would have lower sink rates (shorter wings could be used to make "foul-weather" B/Gs and RGs). For "fair-weather" models with longer wings, the trailing folded wings (in the powered ascent configuration) would give the models trailing-stick stability like a skyrocket's.
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