04 January, 2010

venus




04 November, 2007

rain does not prevent you from flying
























you get wet though


23 October, 2007

new toy

thx kalo

15 June, 2007

flying after 6 months




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30 March, 2007

New Plane on our Field


03 February, 2007

STOL Takeoff in Windy Conditions

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

Prolonged Flying Season

Fast as a bullet

Ugly as hell, but nice to fly- Utva Gavran

This compartment can be opened during flight to release its contents

Piper Cub, four stroke engine, one of my favorites on our field.

15 December, 2006

Mono Dito Simply Won't Stall

It is truly an amazing plane. It practically hangs in the air.

19 November, 2006

Some Resurrect Some Never Will





Flatening

It flies much better without dihedral. Looks better too if you ask me.

18 November, 2006

Dihedral Vs. No Dihedral


Because of a crash resulting from a bad elevator servo the fresh Mono Dito had to see Kosta's workshop. That was the right time to flaten the wing. He made this carbon reinforcement
and that made the wing a 245 cm flat board
This is how it was.
Extreme dihedral=very sensitive to side wind + looking very unserious



It looks even bigger now without the dihedral

06 November, 2006

Mono Dito

A Hell Of A Wing> 240 cm Wingspan


Ugly As Hell

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 35 Down - Big Bang

Still Wondering How The Engine Survived?


Recovering it from the hangar roof.

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

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.