{"id":3953,"date":"2019-12-06T14:57:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T19:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/blog\/?p=3953"},"modified":"2019-12-06T14:57:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T19:57:28","slug":"my-peanut-waco-sre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/my-peanut-waco-sre\/","title":{"rendered":"My Peanut WACO SRE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watching Mike Kelly build out his larger WACO SRE last year, I became inspired to work on a Peanut SRE.\u00a0 I also did it to honor a friend and mentor from the Cleveland Free Flight Society, Del Balunek.\u00a0 Del gave me my first rubber (black Champion, I think) and he also always seems to have a Peanut WACO with him, as he was a huge WACO fanatic.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Walt Mooney did a Peanut SRE (Model Builder, Nov 1973) and that would be a good place to start.\u00a0 My plan is not a direct copy of the Mooney plan, but used it as “inspiration”.\u00a0 I built my version for Indoor competition, cutting the parts and sticks from 6# wood.\u00a0 I am very pleased with the way this turned out; it is 10.5 grams, including about 1.4 grams in Gizmo Geezer nose button and my VPS\/Boehm\u00a0 3d-printed clutch.\u00a0 The N struts are also 3D printed (the N struts will be included in the short kit).<\/p>\n

I had this in the back yard the other evening, it was calm and dry.\u00a0 With 400-500 turns, it was very stable, flying right, and seemed to need either a touch of tail weight or a touch of elevator.\u00a0 I didn’t push it,, since I didn’t want to crash it or get it wet before flying indoor.<\/p>\n

There are my build photos.\u00a0 With any luck, I’ll have flight video sometime soon.<\/p>\n

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Del Balunek with a Peanut WACO N from my plans. This was in the ’90s<\/p><\/div>\n

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Watching Mike Kelly build out his larger WACO SRE last year, I became inspired to work on a Peanut SRE.\u00a0 I also did it to honor a friend and mentor from the Cleveland Free Flight Society, Del Balunek.\u00a0 Del gave … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-builds","category-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}