Little Traveler III...The Rise of Scoot Wagon

Copied from the Cox Fuel thread:


GallopingGhostler wrote:

       Kim wrote:I'm afraid I'm way under the radar on the head-pressure thing.  With both Little Travelers, I just tried to position the tank as high as possible (which wasn't much), and ran Bernie's engines in with long test-stand runs from large tanks.

       Little Traveler I had a 4 oz Sullivan tank shoe-horned into the fuse of a Minnie Mambo.  It flew for some 35 minutes ( and 15 miles) from my home town to my Uncle Wayne's back yard.

       Little Traveler II was a modified "Q-Tee", and was lost in the Mississippi River after losing it's wing in turbulence.  It was packing a 6 oz. tank and appeared to run OK...though it's only flight test had been with an ounce or so.

   Sorry to hear your LT2 was "lost at sea".  Sad Goodbye  It was remarkable for you to use only an .049 engine to do the unthinkable to beneift a charitable cause. Even a  1 oz (30 cc) tank has nearly 4 times the capacity of a Black Widow 8 cc tank, but you flew for an extended amount of time.

   Do you plan in the future to attempt your long distance journey again?


Yeah, right after the loss of LT2, I started drawing up plans for another Little Traveler named 'Scoot Wagon'...basically a flying 12 oz. fuel tank. It's still on the back burner, but I may start gluing it up this winter.
It's probably just as well that I took a break...I think my buds were starting to avoid me for fear of being hit up for cash!

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Post  GallopingGhostler Today at 9:57 pm
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   Kim wrote:Yeah, right after the loss of LT2, I started drawing up plans for another Little Traveler named 'Scoot Wagon'...basically a flying 12 oz. fuel tank.  It's still on the back burner, but I may start gluing it up this winter. It's probably just as well that I took a break...I think my buds were starting to avoid me for fear of being hit up for cash!

Your LT's have a place in my heart, as my most favorite rudder only with auxiliary throttle was a Minnie Mambo. I flew it powered by a Cox .049 R/C Bee engine with Ace Pulse Commander, Adams Stomper Actuator and KRD Sequential Throttle Servo. I built the Q-Tee also, first as a rudder only with auxilliary throttled Cox .049 Black Widow and exhaust throttle sleeve with the same radio system. Aftter, I flew it two channel rudder and elevator. Still have both planes, they were well wrecked and I've rebuilt them.

In the repairs I salvaged the wings and built a new fuselage and tail feathers. It now sports a Norvel .061 Big Mig R/C as two channel rudder and motor. The Q-Tee was Figure-9'd 20 years ago, rebuilt the fuselage front end and repaired the damaged wing. It now sports a Norvel .049 Big Mig CL. The Q-Tee certainly scoots along at a much quicker pace than it did with the Black Widow. I've yet to fly the Minnie due to our usually austere windy conditions here in the Eastern New Mexico High Plains.

The neat thing about the Q-Tee is that its got such sufficient wing area, that I could fly it at 6,500 feet elevation while living in Gallup, NM with the Black Widow on Sig Champion 25% nitro fuel. It flies on its wings. The 6x3 or 6x4 prop was the right choice for that elevation. It would barely lumber along with a 5x4 prop though.

What platform is your LT3 going to be based on?

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I intended Soot Wagon to use the outter wing panels from a battered 2-meter sailplane called an Allure.  The fuse is just a box, tapering horizontally, but keeping a lot of it's height back to a "V" tailed empennage.
The radio will be micro servos all around, and I may go with one operable aileron to save some weight.

It'll also have ground vehicles in pursuit. The helicopter was fun, but REALLY complicated matters tot he point that we were lucky to even try the flight.

Where the Minnie Mambo and Q-Tee were stable, slow planes, I want to try to get some speed out of this one with the Allure's relatively thin wing.  

I truly have no idea if an .049 will fly this thing, if I get it built, but that's part of the attraction, and it's ALL still just a vision floating around in my head anyway.



I DO have it's wheel fairings mostly finished...which where inspired by divine direction from a design I saw in a hallway carpet in a hotel in Birmingham, Al. back in 2010.