Camp n Fly 2024 May 4-5th!

[Doc J]

Those were the days. Love the pinstriped edges - how was that done?

Looks like a goody that you could quite possibly do some very silly things with....

In the UK we used to have the "Ridge Racer" - Or "Ridge Raper" as it was sometimes known. It actually looked quite smilar except the wing was on the top.

Old Skool. Bring back the ISR!!! ISR with a vintage race!!!

Yeah Baby!!!

Woo...dont quite know what came over me there...

Cheers,

Doc..

Attached are pics of the Ridge racer - that I forgot had a (not very good) glass fuse, and a Ridge Runner variant with a built up wing.

 

[Wayne]

Great looking plane. Will be sweet to see it in the air.

 

[Red]

Those were the days. Love the pinstriped edges - how was that done?

Looks like a goody that you could quite possibly do some very silly things with....

In the UK we used to have the "Ridge Racer" - Or "Ridge Raper" as it was sometimes known. It actually looked quite smilar except the wing was on the top.

Old Skool. Bring back the ISR!!! ISR with a vintage race!!!

Yeah Baby!!!

Woo...dont quite know what came over me there...

Cheers,

Doc..

Attached are pics of the Ridge racer - that I forgot had a (not very good) glass fuse, and a Ridge Runner variant with a built up wing.

Doc..no pics?

 

[Red]

Great looking plane. Will be sweet to see it in the air.

Should be fun, you can get a flew laps.

 

[Shoelace]

Those were the days. Love the pinstriped edges - how was that done?

Looks like a goody that you could quite possibly do some very silly things with....

In the UK we used to have the "Ridge Racer" - Or "Ridge Raper" as it was sometimes known. It actually looked quite smilar except the wing was on the top.

Old Skool. Bring back the ISR!!! ISR with a vintage race!!!

Yeah Baby!!!

Woo...dont quite know what came over me there...

Cheers,

Doc..

Attached are pics of the Ridge racer - that I forgot had a (not very good) glass fuse, and a Ridge Runner variant with a built up wing.

And my aileron trainer was a Ridge Rat, also had a wing on the bottom of the fuse, held on with rubber bands and dowels. I don't know if there's any relation to the Ridge Runner and Ridge Rat, but it was a popular aileron trainer in the 80's.

 

[Red]

And my aileron trainer was a Ridge Rat, also had a wing on the bottom of the fuse, held on with rubber bands and dowels. I don't know if there's any relation to the Ridge Runner and Ridge Rat, but it was a popular aileron trainer in the 80's.

Always liked that plane. Reminded my of a Quickie 500 glow plane.

 

[thenated0g]

I have a micro ridge rat i have yet to put together. Love that silhouette.

 

[Wayne]

And my aileron trainer was a Ridge Rat, also had a wing on the bottom of the fuse, held on with rubber bands and dowels. I don't know if there's any relation to the Ridge Runner and Ridge Rat, but it was a popular aileron trainer in the 80's.

Ridge Rat was my aileron trainer too.

@Bruce Anderson, on of our local pilots built up a very nice one about a year ago. Maybe he will bring it to Sunset again this year.

 

[thenated0g]

I dont know when ill get around to this angelwings kit, maybe ill donate it to the raffle.
EDIT: my bad its a runt

Micro Runt

At approx 33.5" (850mm) span and typical flying weight as low as 90 to 150g the Runt is intended for light wind slope flying with lazy aerobatic potentialQuick and easy to build all balsa construction with localised plywood reinforcement.Laser engraved cut lines where required for easy...

www.angelwingdesigns.co.uk

 

[Shoelace]

Ridge Rat was my aileron trainer too.

@Bruce Anderson, on of our local pilots built up a very nice one about a year ago. Maybe he will bring it to Sunset again this year.

Is there a connection between the planes or just a similar name?

 

[Wayne]

Think Ridge Runt was a Hobby shack product and the Ridge Rat was a Pierce Arrow? I'm not aware of anything other than similar names.

 

[Wayne]

Not sure I ever showed this one off. Started it the night before Los Banos last year, and never finished it. It is a 1 day build prototype to test out. Very little time spent on it. Today it is getting a fin mounted, then set CG and enjoy at Sunset.

 

[Tahoed]

 

[Tahoed]

Wayne, I'll bring some Googlies.

 

[thenated0g]

@Wayne how is the fin connected?

 

[Wayne]

@Wayne how is the fin connected?

With magic and good thoughts.

With the nature of this super fast build, I slowed down and drew this up.. Needs some adjustments.

A carbon tube will mount into the curved bit. Probably just use a zip tie to mount the thing down. Want it removable for transport as we tend to have a zillion planes at Sunset.

 

[thenated0g]

With my jart's cg figured out (needed 28g in the tail sheesh!) i pulled out the big Pug Twisty (91"). I had forgot to bring it last year. Has some weird issues with the 2s 18650 battery i made, ill figure it out before sunset. Probably just throw a premade in.

 

[Diceman]

I want you to fly yours exactly like this guy flies his. Extra squirrely.

I'd like to hear everyone's charging solutions while they're camping, if you could. I have a couple ideas but I'm not sure exactly what I'm gonna do. My buddy will have an RV camper so I think he may have an inverter, but I'm not sure yet and am wondering what people will will be doing in that regard.

I use a 32,000mah phone charger battery brick I got from Amazon that hooks up to my charger, super compact easy to use. via USB to XT60 cable.

 

[thenated0g]

May we can have a scale'ish fly time.

 

[thenated0g]

Was chatting with Anton (AB models) last night/this morning just confirming the CG on that Yellow hawk that @Hawaii Sloper got from @Red . Just sharing this as i thought it was funny as here i am an American who only uses metric (mm/grams) when doing models and every time i have talked to him (southafrica/germany) about measurements its always been in inches.