Ultra Light Walkalong Glider
You provide the endless lift for this walkalong glider design made from ultra light foam.
This design is made from 9X22cm of 0.5mm thick thin sliced polystyrene foam (fabricated by precision hot wire cutting seafood transport containers from a super market, for example). This is the Source for 219 mm by 95 mm by .5 mm EPS foam sheets I used. Cut out the template (should print out to be ~9cmX22cm on a letter size page) and tape it to the thin foam in the 4 places indicated on the template labeled “tape template to foam here”. Before being successfully flown as a walkalong glider this design must be trimmed to fly smoothly, slowly and in a relatively straight line.
I used this design for most of the flying in this video:
https://sites.google.com/site/walkalongglider/
Phil very impressive how you steer the glider through the house. I have done some of that but tend to try to make tiny circles in the living room.
Bill
I tried that for the first time the other day. I did a tumble wing and didn’t do too bad for the first try. I am hooked though.
the success/failure rate is about 1 successful flight to 2 where control is lost resulting in a crash:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkOO3CSqYsw