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On Dec 8, 3:22*pm, Junior Team 2007
wrote: Come on guys, it's got to be an Edelweiss! http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/...0Edelweiss.jpg Mike Westbrook I don't think it is an Edelweiss, flaps and no top surface spoilers being one issue as others have mentioned. But if it is French, I will be outraged and will demand to know what the SSA is doing about its 3,000 hour inspection! Darryl |
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At our airfield we have three "V" Schreder designs (a HP-11, a HP-14 and several HP-18s undergoing restoration.) I own the HP-14.
I am sure the tailcone and ruddervators are from a Schreder kit. Notice that the tail-feathers control surfaces are hinged on the top at 50% of the chord leaving a large gap on the bottom side. The mass balance design is the same. Finally ruddervators fold for trailering and can fold past the vertical like all Schreder "V" tails. (The past the vertical fold causes problems with which I am all too familiar.) Are there any other "V" tail glider designs which match the above description? If so, do the wing have large span flaps and no spoilers? As I stated before, there is nothing HP about the wing spar, or steel tube structure associated with the landing gear. There are several one-of-a-kind gliders, some still flying, that were built using parts purchased from Dick Schreder. I think this wreck is one of them. BTW, I think Bob K knows more then he is telling us. Wayne http://tinyurl.com/N990-6F "Darryl Ramm" wrote in message ... On Dec 8, 3:22 pm, Junior Team 2007 wrote: Come on guys, it's got to be an Edelweiss! http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/...0Edelweiss.jpg Mike Westbrook I don't think it is an Edelweiss, flaps and no top surface spoilers being one issue as others have mentioned. But if it is French, I will be outraged and will demand to know what the SSA is doing about its 3,000 hour inspection! Darryl |
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BTW, I think Bob K knows more then he is telling us.
I think so too. Bob's earlier speculation on the wing construction matches precisely what I observed. Tell us, please Bob. |
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On Dec 8, 6:41*pm, Steve Koerner wrote:
BTW, I think Bob K knows more then he is telling us. I think so too. * Bob's earlier speculation on the wing construction matches precisely what I observed. Tell us, please Bob. Sorry to disappoint, but I'm pretty sure I've already told about as much as I know. I think I've seen pictures of it in an old Soaring magazine, maybe along with an old Homebuilders Hall article. But looking through my copy of the Collected Works of Stan Hall, the closes thing I can find is the Moba 2C, which is in Australia and accounted for. It also dates to the late 1970s, probably too late to be our mystery ship. I sure wish I could ask Stan about it, I'd be pretty sure he'd know it. What I think I recall of the pictures in Soaring showed a cross- section of how the aluminum box spar was sized to fit into the airfoil, and how the foam blocks were cut and nested onto the spar. I probably saw the pictures around 1980 when I was working at Sky Sailing and someone left us several cartons of old Soaring magazines ranging from about 1960 to about 1977. If I was to start looking through old Soarings, I'd start at 1967 and then widen the search both ways. If it seems odd that I identified the wing construction, please understand that I've been interested in sailplane structures since about as far back as I can remember clearly. Whenever I saw a picture of something like that, I'd be all over it, figuring out how it could be done, what the advantages are, what the disadvantages are. I know just about every way there is to build a glider. I even know a few pretty good ways. Furthermore, I recall that there were several similar projects in the late 1960s. It seems natural to want to combine predicable, well- understood riveted aluminum primary structure with easily-shaped foam and fiberglass secondary structure. As for my quip about the pilot buying a Libelle, that was an offhand remark based on two things: For one, it seems evident from the photos that whatever incident placed that glider there was eminently survivable, and the pilot probably walked away from it. For another, my bet is that that glider, like too many homebuilt ships, was too hard to assemble, too hard to disassemble, too hard to seal, and probably embodied other disappointments as well. And it probably had a lousy trailer. So when the pilot did walk away, he probably couldn't face the idea of another disassembly and reassembly, so he just took the instruments and left it there, vowing his next glider would go together much more easily. The lesson there is probably that having a good trailer is possibly more important than having a good glider. As for having been involved in the construction, I'm flattered, but I'm not quite that old. Guessing that that glider was built around 1967, I would have been four or five years old at the time. Here's a list of all the people I'd ask for more information: Fred Jiran George Applebay Jim Marske Vern Oldershaw Alex Sim Thanks, and best regards to all Bob K. www.hpaircraft.com |
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Bob Kuykendall wrote:
On Dec 8, 6:41 pm, Steve Koerner wrote: BTW, I think Bob K knows more then he is telling us. I think so too. Bob's earlier speculation on the wing construction matches precisely what I observed. Tell us, please Bob. Sorry to disappoint, but I'm pretty sure I've already told about as much as I know. I think I've seen pictures of it in an old Soaring magazine, maybe along with an old Homebuilders Hall article. But looking through my copy of the Collected Works of Stan Hall, the closes thing I can find is the Moba 2C, which is in Australia and accounted for. It also dates to the late 1970s, probably too late to be our mystery ship. I sure wish I could ask Stan about it, I'd be pretty sure he'd know it. The answer to the mystery most likely is contained in a dusty old file at the FAA in Oklahoma City. I don't know the FAA policy regarding public access, but AOPA has access to those files. |
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