Solaris |
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Here's a little treat for you, I cobbled up while needing some change while building all those Vipers... A 4" scratch build retro called 'Solaris' Built with 29mm mount, she is light enough to fly on G64's on small fields, but can also handle 29/240 loads. Painted classic space ship silver, of course... |
She made her debute at a recent NEFAR launch (Sept '06), getting many compliments... There is something about classic retro 'Buck Jones' like designs everyone seems to like... On pad all wired for sound and ready to rock (right)... |
For the first flight I let her rip with H128W, had to drill the delay down to ~8,5 sec. Nice flight, she looked good with all that silver gleaming under the bright September sun, and all those 'Sunday Fins' gave her a nice whistle all the way up just like planned... On the flipside, due to those same holey fins I had to overchute her a bit (48") and it was a mile hike to retrieve... Well, I need more workout anyway... |
| Roger Smith (Jadebox@TRF) got a really sweet launch pic of her at NEFAR under full boost on H128W, check out his site I was originally set to design something else, but UPS smashed my order totaling a body tube and crushing both the Ace nosecone tip and most of the shoulder beyond repair, but I was able to salvage a slightly off shape tailcone out of the wreck. Sometimes you just have to roll with the punches... On a positive note, A2Z hobbies customer service did an outstanding job in sending replacements at warp speed. Thank you very much ! |
| At the THOR club launch on 10-21-2006 I had the chance to launch 'Solaris' again, this time on G64-4W due to field limitations. 'Thar she blows' - fresh off the rod and gleaming silver under bright Florida sun... and I almost lost her ! You can clearly see how she is turning to left, while the rod is whipping back to the right after she cleared it. She turned to about 60 deg angle before stabilizing and heading downrange in a hurry, where Astron Mike was retrieving one of his famous big gliders and saved me half the hike... Methinks I'll hook her up with a pair of rail buttons one of these days... 1/4" rod doesn't cut it... |
