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Figure9RC.com is a website dedicated to RC world... and so on.. the following text is just for a smaple text taken from an instruction manual!These notes accompany the plan for a simple 6" span free flight HLG. Small gliders do not have much momentum so tend not to break easily. Another advantage is that they can float on a whisper of lift. You get maximum fun with minimum fuss! Now this is the first 6" glider of mine to fly over 30 seconds. When I was testing the prototype in a local park, there was nothing for me to do but laugh while I watched a ?friendly? Dobermann Pinscher pick it up tenderly with its jaws, manouvre it about and then crunch it, very gently. I said to the dog-owner: "Well, I guess it looks a bit like a stick". He replied, "You'll be needing a bit of glue then. A pity, cos it flew really well." I thought "yeah FLEW". At least the dog seemed to enjoy the flavour of dope on balsa. I spent the lonely walk home carefully spying the ground for other deeds by my new best mate Dobie . More...
That is why this design is called DOGCHEW. Its best flight so far is about 63 seconds and still air time around 18 seconds. In the 2006 Tiny Gliders postal contest (see http://www.windandwavemodels.com), average flight time was about 32 seconds. It is a straightforward build. The plan is to scale, so you may find it easiest to use a photocopier or scanner to enlarge or reduce it in accordance with the fuselage dimensions. Instead of laminating the fuse with PVA, you can use spots of CA ? this is lighter. Alternatively, forget about the laminating completely and use hard 1/8 balsa instead. The wing is made in the usual HLG way. Make a template from the plan. Use it to cut out the whole wing planform, sand in the airfoil with the high point as per the dotted line and apply 2 coats of sanding sealer. Then cut the wing in half, sand the dihedral angle at the root chord and glue together with epoxy. Sand a 'v' in the fuse for a wing seat and use epoxy here and for the throw tab. Fin and stab should be sanded as thin as you dare, so that you can breathe and bend for trim. (The prototype had trim tabs, but these were dropped in the final design because they were easy to break). Apply sandpaper or similar for grips on the side of the fuselage.
