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Old 09-04-2013, 06:52 PM
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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
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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