02-08-2016, 06:26 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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Originally Posted by jeffyjeep
I've always loved the elegant simplicity of tailless B/G's.
This kit used to be available from HD (Holverson Designs) and was called the silver hawk. I built this one several years ago, "The Vixen" hand colored the glider with markers.
Glided beautifully! If it caught a nice thermal it would soar well out of sight............unfortunately.
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Indeed--the Vixen was rather reminiscent of the Estes Nighthawk tailless B/G. I have the foam-wing, RTF version of Holverson Design's Zoomie tailless B/G, which ejects its motor (like Starlight's larger Sparrow kit).
A tailless boost-glider with a fuselage boom might be less wont to "hunt" in pitch than the short-coupled Zoomie and Sparrow, due to the length and mass of the fuselage boom. They glide well, but are more sensitive in pitch due to their short pitch moment arms; their "pitch hunting" can lose more altitude (and shorten the glide duration) on breezy days (although this isn't necessarily a bad thing, if the flying field is on the small side). |