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check this out, a rubberband powered B-24. Looks awesome!

http://www.ffscale.co.uk/page3kk.htm

Does anyone have any experience with these? How do they hold up in their landings? I played with some rubberband airplanes as a kid but were nothing fancy. Seem like alot of work for something that does land, it crashes.

There are some pretty cool planes on there. Never had the patience for those types of models.

Wow, great builds! I love those old Guillows wooden kits I've built a few.

I've never seen multi-engined rubber band powered flyers though!

All of mine usually make about a dozen flights...then I have to rebuild the nose, retire them, and hang them from the ceiling.

They take forever to build too. My last one, a 1/16 Cessna, never even got covered. I just built it, and added a nice finish to the wood and hung it up without any "skin". I didnt have the heart to fly it (and crash it) after all that work.

excellent stuff. i know a retired lawyer who makes & flies ultra ultra light models in competitions in mostly gymnasiums. these models are light as feathers, & takes real dexterity to assemble & handle. watching them fly is about as exciting as watching paint dry, but fascinating when you factor in the skill involved. the competition is all time & distance related. i've held a few. they weigh less than a postage envelope.

Didn't the 'Lindberg' line of plastic models make some rubberband ones?

I don't think they flew, but the props would turn.

Lindberg had some motorized models..but they were electric, not rubber band powered. You actually had to build the motor, including assembling and winding the armature. I never could get the things to work.

SN

Steve Nelson wrote:Lindberg had some motorized models..but they were electric, not rubber band powered. You actually had to build the motor, including assembling and winding the armature. I never could get the things to work.

SN

ditto, including my jfk pt- 109 kit. it was later strafed with my bb gun.

The difficulty with most multi engine types (except P-38, F-82 etc.) is that the nacelle isn't long enough for a goodly length of rubber. The nacelles on that B-24 look to have been stretched a bit but there's still not room for much duration. Stick and tissue is very fun modeling but nowadays I would go with micro electric, maybe even micro RC, over rubber.

August

Django wrote:check this out, a rubberband powered B-24. Looks awesome!

Does anyone have any experience with these? How do they hold up in their landings? I played with some rubberband airplanes as a kid but were nothing fancy. Seem like alot of work for something that does land, it crashes.

I have a fair of amount of experience with the single motor variety.
The difficulty to build them and the survivability can vary quite a bit.
That B-24 was built by Chris Starleaf. As far as I'm concerned Chris has few equals in that hobby. My models , mostly Guillows and a couple of scratch builds, fly very well. I have two models that are my favorite flyers, both are 4 years old and have flown many times. The key, I think, is to start with a decent design and then proper trimming for flight.
A model such as the Guillow Javelin, can be built in a day. Flies very well and I think costs about $11.00. Probably, the most active free-flight site on the web is: www.smallflyingarts.com Maybe, you might get interested again. I did, after many years absence.

Cubs wrote:

Django wrote:check this out, a rubberband powered B-24. Looks awesome!

Does anyone have any experience with these? How do they hold up in their landings? I played with some rubberband airplanes as a kid but were nothing fancy. Seem like alot of work for something that does land, it crashes.

I have a fair of amount of experience with the single motor variety.
The difficulty to build them and the survivability can vary quite a bit.
That B-24 was built by Chris Starleaf. As far as I'm concerned Chris has few equals in that hobby. My models , mostly Guillows and a couple of scratch builds, fly very well. I have two models that are my favorite flyers, both are 4 years old and have flown many times. The key, I think, is to start with a decent design and then proper trimming for flight.
A model such as the Guillow Javelin, can be built in a day. Flies very well and I think costs about $11.00. Probably, the most active free-flight site on the web is: www.smallflyingarts.com Maybe, you might get interested again. I did, after many years absence.

I built two Javelins and they were the best flyers I ever built.

It is getting to that time of year again, maybe I should build another...

k5083 wrote:The difficulty with most multi engine types (except P-38, F-82 etc.) is that the nacelle isn't long enough for a goodly length of rubber. The nacelles on that B-24 look to have been stretched a bit but there's still not room for much duration. Stick and tissue is very fun modeling but nowadays I would go with micro electric, maybe even micro RC, over rubber.

August

Electric R/C B-24 by a friend of mine, Dereck Micko. This is from a kit by Wowplanes and is around 60 inches span. Relatively small by multi engine R/C standards. Has retracts as well.

Can we have a flying event here at the CAF hangar? Let me know what you think!!
Dave

There's already a two day event in the hangar each year, for electric powered RC airplanes. Holler at Bill Coombes about it.

Gary

Chad Veich wrote:

k5083 wrote:The difficulty with most multi engine types (except P-38, F-82 etc.) is that the nacelle isn't long enough for a goodly length of rubber. The nacelles on that B-24 look to have been stretched a bit but there's still not room for much duration. Stick and tissue is very fun modeling but nowadays I would go with micro electric, maybe even micro RC, over rubber.

August

Electric R/C B-24 by a friend of mine, Dereck Micko. This is from a kit by Wowplanes and is around 60 inches span. Relatively small by multi engine R/C standards. Has retracts as well.

I am not being critical, but are the wings on that B-24 'beefier' than a normal B-24? It looks a little out of proportion.. somewhere..

Also, how does a model B-24 handle compared to the 'real' thing. A good friend of mine flew them in Europe and always said he constantly had to apply a slight 'right' hand approach.., The joke was that you could always tell B-24 pilots because they looked like Hermit Crabs.. they had one GIANT right arm!!

Lindberg had some motorized models..but they were electric, not rubber band powered. You actually had to build the motor, including assembling and winding the armature. I never could get the things to work.

I built two of those motors from Lindberg Zero kits; one went into the Zero and the other into a Monogram P-40B. Not powerful at all (you had to spin the prop to start them) but they ran well enough until the magnets gave up the ghost some 20-odd years later.