Edmonds Aerospace - Deltie {Kit} (DELTIE)

Edmonds Aerospace Deltie

Edmonds Aerospace - Deltie {Kit} (DELTIE)

Contributed by Alan Rognlie

Length:	16.50 inches
Manufacturer:	Edmonds Aerospace
Skill Level:	1
Style:	Glider

(Contributed - by Alan Rognlie)

[Rocket Pic] I am extremely impressed by this kit. Good materials and excellent laser-cut parts yield a fast-building sport model with very good competition potential. The glider itself is made up of only eight pieces of 1/16" balsa - wings, elevon, fuselage, tip plates and nose reinforcements. The pieces are almost self-jigging and go together very quickly. Even a slow builder like me can put it together in an afternoon using yellow carpenter's glue - complete with fillets. ;-) Rob does NOT recommend airfoiling or rounding anything, so it's almost a 'shake the box' build-up (model railroading kit term <G>). I must admit that I'm planning to try *some* sanding on my next kit - just to see what effect (if any) it will have on the glide. The only shortcoming I see in this kit is failure to provide an engine hook. Per the instructions, motor retention is accomplished by taping the motor casing in place with masking tape. I prefer more positive location and retention, so I'm adding a motor hook (trimmed to avoid exhaust gas impinging on the retainer) and engine block to the pop-pod on mine. Outside of that one minor quibble, I find this to be an absolutely outstanding kit and a great introduction to boost gliders. Check the launch reports for results, but so far this looks like a real winner!

Other Reviews

Edmonds Aerospace Deltie By Jack Hydrazine (June 20, 2015)
A boost glider using 18mm motors. Components All the components were used. Great laser cutting of the pieces. /h2 Building was very easy and straight forward. Because they were laser cut balsa the pieces fit very well together. Finishing Did not finish it to keep the weight to a minimum. Just make sure you balance the glider with the ...
Edmonds Aerospace Deltie By Kris Henderson
Brief: This is a boost glider that literally takes minutes to build and isn't all that expensive. Construction: The kit comes with a body tube for the engine and pop pod recovery device (streamer), three main body pieces, balsa nose cone, and clay for weighting one fin down to enable it to circle around your launch site instead of taking off a couple miles down wind. The ...
Edmonds Aerospace Deltie By Paul Gray
Background The Edmonds Deltie is one of the most popular boost gliders, and with good reason. The glider is well designed, and it has a nice style to it. It can be assembled and ready to fly in a very short period of time. Considering the fact that the glider only weighs around five grams, it is capable of staying in the air for a long time. Construction The glider portion of this ...
Edmonds Aerospace Deltie By Neil Thompson
( Contributed - by Neil Thompson) Brief: This is a very nice kit by Edmonds Aerospace. The pop pod comes back on a streamer, and the deltie glides back. Construction: The kit contains: 1 tube and a lot of little balsa parts, all very neatly laser-cut. It was very easy to build, fitted together like a jigsaw puzzle. Everything fits together nicely, and everything ...

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Comments:

D.K. (October 1, 2000)

Spread newspaper on your building table when assembling this model. That way, if you do glue it to something, it's the paper (easily removed) instead of the table. Rob Edmonds recommends not painting the glider to save weight, so I didn't. I did, however color the booster with markers. I'm glad I did, because a booster this small is hard to spot even in short grass. I colored it bright red, and had no trouble finding it. This was also my first boost glider. The directions were very easy to follow. Per directions, I did not sand the balsa, and I got a 60 second glide on my first flight.

N.P.T. (August 16, 2003)

instead of newspaper, i used waxed paper. this worked well, as it would come right off. leave the little red plastic thing that holds the rear piece on right on for 12 hours at least.

H.W.H. (February 22, 2006)

I built a Deltie in January. Flew it Feb. 21'st , waited until late afternoon when the wind died down. My 6 year old son pushed the launch button on the first launch with a 1/2A4-3. Great boost, we got so excited trying to time the glider we lost site of the booster, and when I glanced at the stop watch and looked back up the Deltie glider was gone too! My son had picked up an over-flying light plane and thought it was the Deltie! After about 20+ minutes searching the big cow field we found the glider due to my son's imaginative magic marker color scheme! Then on the walk back to the pad we stumbled upon the booster! (must be living right) Two more flights thiw evening with the same engine. The second one gave a 40+ second glide in beautiful slow circles over the field. On the third flight something happened upon ejection and the booster and glider appeared to be coming down together, but in a second or two they separated with the glider pointed straight down! It quickly swooped to nice level flight and resumed it's beautiful big circles for a good 32 second glide! Fun~! PS: Deltie Thunder under construction ...stay tuned~!

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