{"id":3905,"date":"2019-09-27T15:55:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T19:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/blog\/?p=3905"},"modified":"2019-09-27T15:55:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T19:55:24","slug":"whats-goin-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/whats-goin-on\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Goin’ On"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I’d say it’s time for a deep relaxing breathe, but there’s no time \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 FINALLY, I am back home, and back to work (full time) – from a number of contests and a 3-week trip to the UK.<\/p>\n

Coming out of the last two contests last weekend, I was somewhat grateful the summer flying season was coming to an end – it’s been a poor year for my flying.\u00a0 And as the streak of issues continued through that weekend, I pretty much resigned myself and just sat back and took it easy.\u00a0 There were lots of events to fly and I flew some of them, but with a couple of exceptions, if the model needed a new motor, I left it in the box.\u00a0 I was ok with the fact that Sunday’s wind was supposed to be high and I took off for home after the awards on Saturday.\u00a0 It was time for a mental reset.<\/p>\n

There is good news and that is that I have been working on 3 or 4 new designs that will be kitted.\u00a0 That was a surprise to me because I really thought I was burnt out, but the ideas have just been coming to me.\u00a0 I don’t know how many will get finished, built, or kitted, but where I didn’t have a 2020 list last week, I now have eight models on that list.\u00a0 (on the 2019 list were 20 builds with seven completed.)<\/p>\n

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Speaking of my kits, there is a serious announcement:\u00a0 My BAT Monoplane and Martin MO-1 – both designed for Dime Scale – have been found to be designed without regard for the FAC Dime Rules, specifically the flat-bottomed airfoil requirement.\u00a0 THESE TWO ARE NO LONGER LEGAL TO FLY IN DIME SCALE WITHOUT MODIFICATION OF THE AIRFOIL.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

There are two fixes for this:\u00a0 If you have built them already, you can now fly them in Simplified Scale without modification as the mew FAC Rules no longer have a minimum wingspan for Simplified Scale.\u00a0 Secondly, I will be reworking the kits to have flat-bottomed airfoils, but this will take some time.<\/p>\n

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This summer, I used my 3D-printed bobbins.\u00a0 They performed just as I expected, with one exception.\u00a0 The LARGE bobbins proved too weak in my Wanderer (12 strands of 1\/18″ and one bobbin was deformed under the pressure.\u00a0 Based on that, I have redesigned the Large bobbin to have thicker walls on the sides and in the center.\u00a0 In fact the new design is about triple the thickness in the center, as the two halves now slip together (to be cemented with CA).\u00a0 Here’s a pic:<\/p>\n

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I mentioned working “full-time”\u00a0 – I’ve been working on my large backlog and here is a photo showing the progress.\u00a0 This is the third postal pickup I have done this week and it has 16 or so packages.\u00a0 I’ve shipped probably over 30 this week and will be shipping more tomorrow.\u00a0 If you are waiting on stuff, don’t worry, you will get it.\u00a0 There is a light at the end of the tunnel.<\/p>\n

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