ZULU3: October 2006

16 October, 2006

Several Takeoffs and Landings in Windy Conditions

Windy Conditions but great Flying Sunday.

15 October, 2006

New Propellers, New Hope

New Baldes: 14"x6, 14x7, 14x6. I 'll try them today if fly well.

13 October, 2006

Von Propellern

I tried to use a radically smaller prop in order to solve the problem of the engine quitting when airborne. The Klemm flew slower, it was easier to control, I flew it on 1/2 throttle, full throttle would have meant probably a ruined engine... but it ain’t the solution. Until now I have flown props with no less than 8" step on the Klemm 35. Now I think that an ideal Propeller would be 16x5 or 16x6 or even 17x5. I will have to find a Prop of that size first in this part of the world. The other picture is a remainder that spinning props are dangerous when not handled with care.

12 October, 2006

Most Beautiful Aircraft Ever Built

I hope some day I'll have a flying model of this beauty

Klemm 35 Spezial from Graupner with 20 ccm Engine

To be honest I am not too happy with the engine I choose for the Klemm . It is the GMS 1.20 BB Ringed, Horsepower: 3.3BHP @ 13,000 RPM with Bisson 1.20 Pitts Muffler. The problem with it is that it runs not very round even though I tried a lot of magic. Closed one pipe of the muffler, tried it with nitro and again it continued to die in the air. Au contraire the engine my friends Kumba and Vlade use in their Cessnas runs smoothly and they can fly on 1/4 throttle more than 20 min on one tank. It is the Magnum XLS-46 Ball Bearing ABC FSR. It's very silent and runs like a Swiss watch. Anyway for now my only choice is to make the best of this one engine I have.

09 October, 2006

Elegant, Beautiful, Sleek, Klemm 35 Spezial

It'harder to take off with, harder to fly, harder to land.
It's much more unforgiving, much more unstable, much more fragile.
Than the Cessnas.
I've crashed it several times, it's still damn gorgeous.