Flying Sorcerer free flight model First flights !!!

During the past weeks, I made this free flight plane powered by a Pee Wee. It’s not a complicated build. The plan can be found on Outerzone:

http://www.outerzone.co.uk/plan_details.asp?ID=6852

and on Kirt’s website that also shows the article out of the magazine:

http://www.airplanesandrockets.com/airplanes/flying-sorcerer-sep-1970-aam.htm







One of the reasons I chose this model was the Coroplast plumber sign that was hanging for too long on our fence. I thought by using that, it would give a modern touch to the model. The original balsa wing is curved in a wing shape. To reproduce this curve is not so straight forward with Coroplast. Therefore, the 1/8" thick Coroplast was just folded to create a similar shape. In way of the bends, 1 side was cut along a channel. I didn’t know that but this material is a lot more heavy than balsa. After glueing the disc to the fuse and fixing the engine, the CG was too far back compared to the drawings. To compensate that, I added a nose wheel sticking out forward. Gliding tests showed that I still had to add 6g of weight.
The disc is glued to the fuse with hot glue. The double tail pieces are glued with CA and are reinforced at the ends and corners with epoxy.





The wheel has a hole with a diameter of 1/8”. The music wire I used is only 1,5 mm thick. To fill up the space, I used an ink tube of a Bic pen which has both diameters on the in- and outside. The additional weight was made of 2 coins of 10 centimes (pre 2001) drilled to slide over the wheel shaft. I finished with 3 coats of dope. The engine mount was covered with paper. The nose was sprayed blue metallic and all wood parts were covered with a coat of PU varnish for fuel proofing. I added some deco using Oracover.



Lieven