B-17 & Wheaties - Page 3

**YOAVHOZMI** · #21 04-23-2018, 10:13 PM

nice work...clean and smooth.

YOAV

**Don Boose** · #22 04-24-2018, 05:59 AM

Great work on the Fulmar.

I built the Wheaties Fulmar about 20 years ago. It is the best of all the Wheaties gliders I built. Both adult grandsons flew it many times. Long, true, straight glides every time so long as the wing tips and tail surfaces were unbent.

Don

**Padraig** · #23 04-24-2018, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Don Boose

Great work on the Fulmar.

I built the Wheaties Fulmar about 20 years ago. It is the best of all the Wheaties gliders I built. Both adult grandsons flew it many times. Long, true, straight glides every time so long as the wing tips and tail surfaces were unbent.

Don

Very nice! Is that kit from the re-issue, or an incredibly clean original?

**Padraig** · #24 04-24-2018, 11:16 AM

Here's a PDF of the re-touched Wheaties Spitfire. Instructions are out there somewhere.

**MichaelS** · #25 04-24-2018, 11:54 AM

Thank padraig

**Don Boose** · #26 04-24-2018, 01:37 PM

Padraig -

My Fulmar was scanned from a reissue that I purchased from Lou Dausse about 30 years ago.

Many thanks for the Spitfire.

Don

**Padraig** · #27 04-24-2018, 02:24 PM

More throwing around the B-17 from John Dell
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=uHUwkUQ6w3s
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=YOlGrjUlytU
We ended up with structural damage but it has been glued back together.
Time to print out Little Miss Mischief!! ... not to throw though

**Yeti** · #28 04-26-2018, 06:35 AM

That B-17 looks great! I enjoyed your flight videos, and it's one of the aspects of this hobby that I think often gets overlooked.

I have a hunch that your bird might actually do better in a little more wind. Also you might consider launching from a hill, into a thermal, or with a rubber catapult.

I look forward to seeing more of your flight demonstrations with this and other aircraft!

**John Dell** · #29 04-26-2018, 09:23 AM

Very nice! Though in the one clip I thought it might end up in the street.

**Padraig** · #30 04-27-2018, 07:09 AM

Thanks Yeti, Don, Michael and John. :-)
There is one final flight planned for the B-17 after repairs and will be from high, after cutting and tweaking ailerons.

But for today: Experimental envelope windows in my Wheaties Thunderbolt penny flier!
It worked out pretty well ... take a peek.