Length: | 16.50 inches |
Manufacturer: | Edmonds Aerospace |
Skill Level: | 1 |
Style: | Glider |
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:
It was very easy to build, fitted together like a jigsaw puzzle. Everything fits together nicely, and everything was laser-cut. You just have to have a little glue and an hour or so.
Finishing:
Rob Edmonds recommends you use markers, so I did. It looks very nice with
orange, yellow and green highlighters. Do not use paint.
Construction Rating: 5 out of 5
Flight:
I flew it 4 times. Once it separated at apogee, but the ejection charge had not
fired; so the pop pod tumbled about 100 feet, and then popped. I used half a
square of wadding, but that is all you need. Once I forgot it entirely while
half prepping the glider, half keeping those idiotic 5 year olds from stepping
on my rockets. Those kids were crazy. Once I had to rip my modified Echostar
out of the hands of one of those mental little kids; and there had to be 3
dozen of the little devils. The RSO and the RCO were yelling over the loud
speakers "DO NOT TOUCH THE ROCKETS".
Then my modified Echostar flew, and that demented little kid tried to race me to get to my own rocket. I do not think I have ever run faster than when I was trying to rescue my rockets from these un-supervised morons. I do not know where their parents were. Once some kid grabbed some super-detailed scale model and started running with it. He almost tripped over the parachute, but luckily the unfortunate owner grabbed his model and took it off him. WHEW! Anyway, my deltie flew straight every time I launched it, and once it caught a thermal and flew all the way to the parking lot and hit a car!
It was packed there, it was Space Day 2003, and the rocket landed right in the middle of the cars. I would have wasted half the day looking for it, if some nice stranger had found it sitting next to his car!
Recovery:
Flew well every time. I always had my eye on the glider, so I had to search for
my pop-pod after every flight. Every time, though, somebody found it next to
their chair, or where they were looking for their rocket, or just sitting in
the field waving its little streamer.
Flight Rating: 5 out of 5
Summary:
Great rocket. I cant wait until the 18MM version comes out.
Overall Rating: 5 out of 5
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
( Contributed - by Alan Rognlie) 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 ...
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D.K. (October 1, 2000)