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04 January, 2010
04 November, 2007
23 October, 2007
15 June, 2007
30 March, 2007
03 February, 2007
24 December, 2006
Cold But True
I was all alone on the flying field today. At temperatures around zero it is no wonder everybody else decided to stay at home. Nevertheless it was a memorable flying Sunday. The slight breeze made the extremely low stall speed Mono Dito literally hang in the air. Unfortunately no video or photos of that. Alone there -remember.
20 December, 2006
15 December, 2006
19 November, 2006
18 November, 2006
Dihedral Vs. No Dihedral
06 November, 2006
05 November, 2006
Mono Dito
This is my new Plane. The name given by my twoandahalf years old daughter is Mono Dito.
I flew it this weekend. It flies reasonably well. It was used by the JNA (Jugoslav National Army) as a Target Puller for Anti Air Guns. I have mounted the engine and electronics from the Klemm 35 on it. It has a 240 cm wingspan, monumental dihedral and is so ugly that it is beautiful again.
Klemm Down
That was a Big Bang. I slammed the Klemm 35 into the unforgiving steal structure of the hangar with full throttle applied. The result: devastating. The front end and the wing are totally shattered, only the back end of the fuselage has somehow survived. Fortunately the engine, receiver and the servos are still in working conditions so I’ll have less transition costs in building my new plane cause the Klemm 35 Spezial is unrecoverable (the rebuild would be economically unfeasible). So I am on the outlook for a plane that can hold a 20 cc engine.
16 October, 2006
15 October, 2006
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
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.