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Originally Posted by A Fish Named Wallyum
Obviously no flight pics yet, but I like the way this turned out.
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Please do chronicle how these boost-gliders go together and fly! ALSO:
Andy Kecskes (e-mail:
twitt@pobox.com ), the President of TWITT and the editor of the "TWITT Newsletter," would probably find your pictures and experiences with the Mini Bat boost-glider interesting. TWITT ("The Wing Is The Thing," see:
http://www.twitt.org/ ) is an organization of aircraft designers, RC and full-scale aircraft pilots, historians, and other people who are interested in tailless and flying wing aircraft. I'm a TWITT member, and I have contributed material (including about tailless- and flying wing-type boost-gliders) that has appeared in the organization's (printed and online) newsletter. In addition, speaking of boost-gliders:
I'm sure you remember the 1970s-vintage Estes Scissor Wing Transport boost-glider, which has been re-issued (see:
http://www.estesrockets.com/media/i...G_TRANSPORT.pdf ). There is a tailless variant of this basic design that, to my knowledge, no one has tried, but which should work (the Estes kit could even be modified to incorporate this concept). There is a type of tailless glider (and powered airplane) called a "plank" (see:
http://www.google.com/search?source...0.O4MsG0954 NI ) because the simplest, rectangular-wing ones *do* look like a plank when viewed from above or below, and:
Al Backstrom (see:
http://www.google.com/search?ei=9XG...1.0.O6WHxbox868 ), Jim Marske (see:
www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/472596554622099190 and
http://www.google.com/search?ei=WnO...1.0.NjGrMF00Sck ), and Charles Fauvel (see:
http://www.google.com/search?ei=nnO...1.0.3Jxs-G1H6EY ) all designed plank sailplanes. A Scissor Wing Transport-type boost glider could "carry such a plank glider as its wing," with the 'slewed for launch' plank glider separating at ejection and gliding back, while the rocket body would descend under a parachute or streamer.